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Following Trinity Mirror’s experiment with the Liverpool Echo, journalism.co.uk has reported on ITN’s use of Google Maps to provide users with geo-located news stories. The simple interface currently allows you to specify a minimum number of stories, a central location point and a time period over which you are interested in news content. Upon entering this data [...] The Guardian publishes first ‘geolocated’ articleJournalism.co.uk reports that The Guardian has published its first article including geolocation data. Dataset of the Day: Globalizing IKEAView the global expansion of furniture retailer IKEA on a map. Mapped Panoramas Viewable in Google EarthMore features available on the panoramic photo site 360Cities.net which allows people to upload/view geo-tagged 360 degree panoramas [...] The 2008 theme for Blog Action Day is Poverty, a subject that hasn’t been out of the papers in one form or another for a long time. I thought I’d start with a fairly obvious Google image search for “poverty map”. Geographic.org appears to come up trumps with the fairly straightforward World Poverty [...] After I published a post on my personal blog about the lack of decent tools on the web to help plan a holiday a friend pointed me in the direction of Opodo’s new AirTools service. It’s not quite the complete answer but it’s certainly heading in the right direction. Within a very short time of playing with [...] Coming hot on the heels of their Liverpool Echo news map, the Trinity Mirror have launched a wiki site for the North East of England. The website, www.wiki-north-east.co.uk, is aiming to be “a collaboration of editorial articles and user generated content for and about the people, places and events of the North East.“ Read an initial analysis [...] Geo Microformat ToolSelect a point on the map and give it a name to instantly generate a geo microformat. Finder of the equidistant locationA new website that will suggest a suitable meeting place halfway between two locations. Tracking Mobile Phones to Track Spending and Shopping HabbitsPath Intelligence have developed a tracking technology that has proved that the [...] Think tank: One click away from anywhereDamien Mulley suggests that Ireland should forget about introducing a postcode system and instead encourage the sharing of data to implement the first GPS based national household location system. Which smartphone would you like?A rough poll on the AnyGeo blog suggests the N95 is the most desired smartphone. Nokia announce new [...] As reported by The Guardian, Trinity Mirror have today announced the launch of a map-based local news service on their Liverpool Echo website. Chief Executive Sly Bailey said that the service was a follow-up to the development of a series of hyper-local websites across the group. “As a next step we’re launching a map-based news service across [...] The Ofcom website is today announcing that the BBC Trust’s Public Value Assessment (into the BBC’s proposals for a new Local Video service) and provisional conclusions will now be published by the 27 November 2008. Ofcom will submit the Market Impact Assessment to the Trust so that it can be published on the same day. See my [...] |
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