Re: [backstage] Geotagging BBC news stories

[Duncan Barclay]

Hi, I could output geotagged news stories in xml if you like, but it would mean setting something up to actually work out where they are on a regular basis (at the moment the script I made to do it is only manual), although that is planned for another prototype I am in the middle of making..  Some data from ages ago is plotted at http://backstage.min-data.co.uk/geotagged/ . I don't think Yahoo's mapping service will be widely used as it is nowhere near as nice as Google's equivalent.  It can't be long to the Microsoft one is release (at least in the US), which looks like it might be quite nice. I can probably get stuff up sometime after Open Tech  (which I plan to go to by the way, assuming there aren't too many underground lines closed). Duncan Tony Hirst wrote: Several sites are plotting news stories on Gmaps I beleive (anyone using yahoomaps yet?) and as a result generating geo info for news stories. Lazy as I am, is anyone syndicating this geo info indexed/searchable by BBC news story ID? thanks tony ----------------------------------------------------------- SEE THE WICKED ROBOT INVASION MAP http://www.wickedrobots.co.uk/ ----------------------------------------------------------- Mail tags: ----------------------------------------------------------- Tony Hirst mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] blog: http://micro-info.blogspot.com/ Dept. of ICT, Faculty of Technology Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK Tel: +44 (0)19086 52789, m./SMS 07709 766223 http://robofesta.open.ac.uk/tony http://www.robofesta-uk.org - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html.