News Activity Map
* Monitor news RSS feeds for location every 2 hours or so
* Track how many items have changed in that feed since the last check
* Take a map of the UK and draw hotspots on the map to indicate areas of news activity
* Create an animation every day/week/month/year to show news activity around the country
The intensity of the colour is intended to represent the 'activity' of that place, i.e. how many news stories changed or were filed in that period.
The radius of the hotspot could be used to indicate how 'important' that story is, with importance being defined by how many different news indices that story has appeared on in that time period (need some way of cross referencing stories). I.e. a local story that only appears on the local index would be a small radius, but a story that appears on the Wales, UK, Frontpage & World Indices would be huge.
Could use different colours to categorise the story if that data becomes available.
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