Flash World Map Newsfeed reader
I’m very interested in using Flash for data visualization, so I decided to start playing around with ways to organize and visualize news feeds. I made a little playground site called reverbiage where I created a flash feed reader that uses a world map to show NPR news feed aggregations. The site itself uses freetag combined with a keyword extractor to autotag stories as they come in. The map is still a little wonky at times, and the site itself is at an embryonic stage, but I thought you may want to take a look. I’d like to use this site as a staging ground for all kinds of feed visualization.
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This is great! What did you use to implement the map?
Comment by Roger — 2/27/2006 @ 8:08 pm
I used freely available maps with a small database of cities mapped to longitude and latitude that I converted to XML format. I then do a search in the feeds for place names and match them as they come in.
Comment by geoff — 2/27/2006 @ 11:52 pm