The Ultimate News Search Map
by Adena Schutzberg
Two words before we get to Adena’s review: VERY COOL!!!
From the review:
It took a while to get here and many news sites and hackers have put together lesser implementations along the way, but Geosearch News is finally here.
MetaCarta’s “demo” provides what may be the best geographic search tool for the largest changing digital data database of unstructured content on the planet. The site offers search by content and geography. And while at the smallest scales just AP and Reuters stories are offered, as you “zoom in” (either via map or keying in geography) more and more sources’ stories appear on the map (some 1400 at last count). And, remember this is MetaCarta’s “smart” geospatial searching, so it relies on extracting location information outside the first sentence and distinguishing Paris, France from Paris, Texas. It also know about “points of interest.” That means each story can be “located” in more than one place. It also means that stories seemingly in unrelated geographies may pop up in a search.
Direct to GeoSearch News (MetaCarta)
Source: Directions Magazine
See Also: MetaCarta News Release
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