Research on 'The Mediatised View'

Top left: view of the 'radar' view so users can see where the telescope points. Top right: the simple 3D view showing place name. Bottom left: the feed view. Bottom right: the selection box, giving user options to save or bin feeds and to select types of feeds to view.

Visualising data in 3D. Jogl link

API and useful / interesting sites

Guardian Open Platform link
DayLife api link and the doodleBuzz experiment link
Eventful API link
Olympic Event Geo-encoded map (by Stamen) link
Access to the geo encoded info about Olympic 2012 Events link
Geonames.org offers tools to 'reverse' geo encode places from lat and lon coordinates link
World Gazateer offers geo encoded information for the entire globe link
Explore our pla.net among other things shows geo encoded news feeds on a global map link

RSS feeds

It has taken me a bit of time to get to grips with what RSS feeds are, how they are authored, received and used. It shouldn't be difficult the key is in the name 'Really Simple Syndication', but things still seemed tricky. I wanted to do something it appears is slightly different with the feeds, foremost to be able to locate or position them geographically. Conceptually geoLocation doesn't seem to work well or been used for rss -: Where is the location? Is it the location of the news? is it the location of the author or news channel etc? There is 'GeoRSS' which is an attribute where an author can put in the location they decide upon, but generally this seems to fit only if the feed is 'about' a place; a good example being U.S national parks RSS feeds.

After deciding on a myriad of different feeders, parsers, aggregators etc I happened upon the Universal feedparser, which is a python module to deal with RSS. It is great!

The biggest trick is in how rss is encoded and then received

Some useful terms

Concomitant - existing or occurring with something else, often in a lesser way; accompanying; concurrent: an event and its concomitant circumstances.