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Show HN: My weekend project - NewsMap

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First off, great concept. Always wanted to see a better version of 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].

That was my intention, as far as the concept went. I'll look into the data issue as well, it was extracted from various places.

Poorly 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/AAAAAAAAA5...

I was using the map from http://jvectormap.com/maps/countries/usa/

I'll look into the fix, however. Thanks!

I like the "Natural Earth" data sets very much, which I can really recommend:

http://www.naturalearthdata.com/

The map just presents the state border including the water.

Suggestion: Rather than a "Go" button column, turn the newspaper names into links to the newspaper sites.

I agree with that. My first instinct was to click the newspaper names, then I noticed the 'Go' column.

Nice. You need a new name, though: http://newsmap.jp/

That link triggered my anti-virus

Hadn't heard of it. Thanks!

Cool! Great use of some client and server technologies. Makes me feel lazy for boozing all weekend!

Looks 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.

The 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.

Would 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.

I'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.

Nice!

Have you seen http://newspapermap.com/, which builds on http://www.google.com/fusiontables/Home/?

It'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.

Mexico, Missouri is listed as having a newspaper called the "Memphis Democrat," which links to 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/ (interestingly, another nearby town) which is a dead link.

Thanks, 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.

Look, There's 2 France in your Map! :) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/149780/shared/2france.jpg

This is a part of France, French Polynesia.

Very Nice! Would love to see some news snippets from the sources within the page before landing on the actual site.

Great work. Clean UI. Would suggest a basic check on the news links ... I tried a bunch that didn't work.

We'd love to hook you up with an account so you can integrate screenshots of these urls.

Very cool - where are you getting your data (links, location, language, etc.)?

nice 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

Someone deformed poor Michigan..

there are 2 Warsaws in Poland on your list: Warsaw and Warsaw-Varsovia

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