A mashup that maps the news from the Spotlight Feeds to the world map to show the location of the event.
Following APIs are used: Reuters Spotlight, Google Maps for Flash.
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Breaking News map
I like your application, how are you pulling out the locations?
I am guessing that they use
I am guessing that they use the google maps api to get a lat/long id based on the street ref. for a news story.
Cheers,
Jimmi @ Flights