RSS Feed Mapping
Jeroen Wijering, Designer from Eindhoven (NL), has implemented quite an impressive tool for RSS feed mapping. What’s Up uses a Flash interface to display a large number of RSS feeds on a world map. Though the online demo is not running live due to technical issues, Jeroen already announced that there will be a live desktop version of the tool in the future.
Although this is a quite impressive tool, I’m not quite sure whether it always makes sense to add a spatial reference to a newsfeed. Plus Jeroen does not say anything about how the feeds are mapped to the proper locations, so I guess that he does it manually. Maybe using GeoRSS might be an interesting idea for the further development of the tool.
Nevertheless, I’m really looking forward to the desktop version, which will certainly allow users to add their own news feeds. For that purpose, an import function for OPML would be great.
Via Cartography.
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