The idea of using the h2g2 data is pretty fascinating. Could it be
combined with all the map work you're doing - so that articles, eg.
about places in h2g2 could be displayed on the map?
Also the wiki idea (where bbc news articles are scanned and wikipedia
links are added to the page) might also be cool in conjunction with h2g2?
Tom
Duncan Barclay wrote:
Hi,
Recently I have done a lot of stuff that involves merging BBC content
with Google Maps, and I am sure most of you have seen them
(http://backstage.min-data.co.uk if you haven't). However, I decided
to take a brief break from that and do something different. The
problem, however, was thinking of something different to do.
In my hunt for something else to do, I decided to look at the content
that wasn't being widely used. Almost every project here evolves
around different ways of displaying the news or transport data that is
available. So I looked at the other data, in particular the h2g2 and
Collective and wondered what could be done with them. The only thing
I could think of that I could actually do was making it easier to
display them on a website, so that is what I did, and you can see it
at http://backstage.min-data.co.uk/jsrss .
BBC News already has something similar to this (and there are probably
loads of other things out there too, but it didn't take long to make),
however it is limited in that it only shows data from the news. Mine
can cope with loads of different RSS feeds (even survives RSS 1.0
feeds). Full instructions on use are available at
http://backstage.min-data.co.uk/jsrss . There is also a sample of it
there, using the h2g2 latest article feed (which seems fairly slow for
some reason). Any comments would be appreciated.
Back to the maps next I think :)
Duncan
