Yahoo goes global with news mapping

February 15th, 2008Posted by Laura Oliver in Online Journalism

Yahoo has combined its RSS feed of top news stories with a geo-encoding function of Yahoo Maps to create the Newsglobe (screenshot below). Fairly self-explanatory, it’s updated every few minutes and indicates the ranking of the news story by the size of the red bar plotting the story.

A ccording to the developer’s blog, the globe could be adapted to show feeds of news by location or defined by specific search terms

Tags: Geotagging, search terms, Yahoo

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