TimeSpace: Interactive Map of World News

And yet another contender for the creation of maps using news geolokatsionnoy technology. How many of them already and how many more will be ... But we are here to fill in the main hand in the estimation of such services, to immediately cut off the husk of something really worthwhile.

TimeSpace - is a project of the online edition of The Washington Post, which aims to create an interactive map based on Google Maps, mapping news publications - both articles and pictures, videos, blog posts, etc. According to the description, we have the opportunity to observe the emergence of regional centers of the generation of news - such as Iran, in real time. The difference maps from such projects is the availability of the timeline by which you can navigate both forward and backward, tracing that has been popular recently.

In general, the impression is very positive, but it seems to me that the system receives insufficient amount of information. If the articles all in order, with video and blog posts is not so rosy. However, the possibility of finding related news and display them not individually but as a kind of hub with illustrations to each of them, makes it a fun toy for half an hour. Unfortunately, only a toy.