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Show HN: My weekend project - NewsMap
- elliottcarlson 14y agoLooks nice - though I noticed one issue with my locality specifically; Staten Island seems to just be "New York (Staten" in the database, and the one entry is actually for Oneida NY, while the Staten Island Advance (silive.com) is missing.
- mhlakhani 14y agoThe data was extracted from various sources, I haven't had a chance to verify most of it since there's a lot to go through. I'll try fixing this entry though.
- code177 14y agoWould love to get some insight into how and where you did this, local news isolation has been a real pain-point for me. Brilliant project, by the way - very clean.
- mhlakhani 14y agoI'd suggest looking into freely available online listings and writing a script or two to extract the data out. BeautifulSoup (if you're using Python) helps make it a nearly painless process in most cases.
- sharjeel 14y agoVery Nice! Would love to see some news snippets from the sources within the page before landing on the actual site.
- dcesiel 14y agoSomeone deformed poor Michigan..
- zalew 14y agothere are 2 Warsaws in Poland on your list: Warsaw and Warsaw-Varsovia
- mehrshad 14y agoFirst off, great concept. Always wanted to see a better version of http://www.world-newspapers.com http://www.world-newspapers.com to get a local perspective on international events. However, I'm noticing some errors in matching sites to locales, e.g. US > CA > Fillmore (San Francisco Downtown) maps to the San Luis Obispo times. Also, might want to consider tweaking the name to avoid confusion with the popular NewsMap [http://www.newsmap.jp http://www.newsmap.jp].
- mhlakhani 14y agoThat was my intention, as far as the concept went. I'll look into the data issue as well, it was extracted from various places.
- rmason 14y agoPoorly drawn US map detracts greatly from your excellent effort. For example here's how the state of Michigan should look: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NvbQgmBVvV4/TyGBIIw0a5I/AAAAAAAAA5w/GiBrMxvTAT8/s1600/1194984363325253051state_of_michigan_kevin__01.svg.png http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NvbQgmBVvV4/TyGBIIw0a5I/AAAAAAAAA5...
- mhlakhani 14y agoI was using the map from http://jvectormap.com/maps/countries/usa/ http://jvectormap.com/maps/countries/usa/ I'll look into the fix, however. Thanks!
- vog 14y agoI like the "Natural Earth" data sets very much, which I can really recommend: http://www.naturalearthdata.com/ http://www.naturalearthdata.com/
- jlev 14y agoJQVMap.com has a more pleasing projection, and doesn't munge michigan. I believe it uses Winkel tripel instead of Miller cylindrical. http://www.radicalcartography.net/?projectionref http://www.radicalcartography.net/?projectionref </mapnerd>
- bjornd 14y agoThe map just presents the state border including the water.
- jakejake 14y agoCool! Great use of some client and server technologies. Makes me feel lazy for boozing all weekend!
- anigbrowl 14y agoNice. You need a new name, though: http://newsmap.jp/ http://newsmap.jp/
- mhlakhani 14y agoHadn't heard of it. Thanks!
- therandomguy 14y agoThat link triggered my anti-virus
- kevinherron 14y agoIt's got some incorrect data. Sacramento's largest newspaper, the Sacramento Bee, is listed as a magazine. Sacramento Magazine, on the flip-side, is listed as a newspaper.
- mhlakhani 14y agoThanks, I'll try and put in a fix. I extracted the data from a few sources and didn't have time to verify all of it.
- baddox 14y agoMexico, Missouri is listed as having a newspaper called the "Memphis Democrat," which links to http://www.monett-times.com/ http://www.monett-times.com/. Moberly, Missouri (interestingly, a nearby town) is listed as having Mexico's newspaper, the Mexico Ledger, but that links to http://www.monroecity.net/ http://www.monroecity.net/ (interestingly, another nearby town) which is a dead link.
- lajulajay 14y agoGreat work. Clean UI. Would suggest a basic check on the news links ... I tried a bunch that didn't work.
- etrain 14y agoVery cool - where are you getting your data (links, location, language, etc.)?
- url2png 14y agoWe'd love to hook you up with an account so you can integrate screenshots of these urls.
- mruflin 14y agoNice! Have you seen http://newspapermap.com/ http://newspapermap.com/, which builds on http://www.google.com/fusiontables/Home/ http://www.google.com/fusiontables/Home/?
- kjhughes 14y agoSuggestion: Rather than a "Go" button column, turn the newspaper names into links to the newspaper sites.
- benregn 14y agoI agree with that. My first instinct was to click the newspaper names, then I noticed the 'Go' column.
- andye 14y agonice work, clean ui, i am curious too about the data source. I also set up a news web app too, with a facebook timeline: http://www.popbuzz.me http://www.popbuzz.me
- knes 14y agoLook, There's 2 France in your Map! :) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/149780/shared/2france.jpg http://dl.dropbox.com/u/149780/shared/2france.jpg
- bjornd 14y agoThis is a part of France, French Polynesia.