Geo tagging the news
Just a thought, lots of cool stuff with maps flying around and i'm loving them. I've recently become addicted to geotagging my flickr pictures and thought this could be a smart way to geo tag the news as an experiment. I've seen conversations about extracting data from feeds to do this or getting journo's to add the info but what about letting the public have a stab at this? (well the public who can add greasemonkey scripts to firefox...)
So.
Take stories from ´óÏó´«Ã½ News and let people tag the news to locations on a google map. A story can appear in multiple areas of the country and a tagger can add a simple description when tagging a story to a location eg. "first stabbing took place here" or "Cheese rolling here".
Not sure how the passing of time would work and what to do when stories die but hey it's an idea, could be intresting?
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