Thakadu's News Map--Thoughts arising

i like Thakadu's News Map, featured on White African a few days ago.  Basically, it is a Google Maps and Yahoo News mashup that captures current news stories by country in terms of "the easiest common denominator - geography" to use Erik's neat characterization.  Here is a screen shot:

It's easy to visualize other useful mash-ups making use of similar mapping tools and layout.  For example, one could easily replace the list of news items shown above by a list of development projects to get a new mash-up that allows a user to view projects per country or region within a country.  Donors, governments, NGOs and researchers could use such a resource. Thanks for planting the thought, Thakadu!

Comments

[thakadu]

Hi Lawrence

Thanks for blogging about my map and the positive things you have said about it. You are quite right that the concept can be used for any type of data. I will be happy to assist anyone in getting something similar up and running.

Regards

[lawrence]

Thanks for the offer of assistance Thakadu. We will certainly call on you if the need arises. BTW, i signed in to the Zangu News beta already last week. Keep up the good work...