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Idea #13: Finding news close to me

Written by www.richardsprojects.co.uk the 29 Dec 08 at 07:48. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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Sometimes I would like to find news that is happening in a certain area. This area might be quite small and I might be less interested in how recent the news is.

I may for example want to find all news that happened near my house in the last year.

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Solution #1: Location based news search
Written by www.richardsprojects.co.uk the 29 Dec 08 at 07:48.
Provide a news search engine on the BBC that allows you to search for news based on location.
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Solution #2: GeoRSS and metadata
Written by www.richardsprojects.co.uk the 29 Dec 08 at 07:52.
Provide location data in the BBC news feeds and the page's metadata to allow people to create location based services with BBC news.
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Solution #3: Guess places for existing content, check with crowd sourcing
Written by www.richardsprojects.co.uk the 2 Jan 09 at 18:25.
There's obviously a lot of existing content that isn't marked up and doesn't have place data associated with it.

You could create an algorithm to search through the content looking for place names and adding the appropriate location data. You could then use crowd sourcing to check how accurate this new location data is.

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upyourego wrote on the 6 Jan 09 at 19:30
As BBC Local moves into the News & Sport CPS and towards the new look service I think you'll be able to do something along these lines from within your BBC Local site.

Mapping will probably play a fairly big part of these sites as they develop (without original video) over the next year or two.

Expect to see an interactive map of the region the site covers (so for example Bristol) with wide reaching stories created by the Bristol team (as well as TV/radio teams for the area).

Then as you zoom further in you'll be able to see more locally relevant stories - eventually down as far as your own street - although I doubt they'll be many at that level from the BBC.

Maybe if a partnership agreement could be struck between the BBC and local newspapers you'd get the level of localness you're looking for.


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