Google Maps is one of the most popular Maps service in the world. With its real time updates, it has won public’s confidence and most of the services prefer embedding Google Maps to add dimension in their apps. Similar is the case with Maplandia and The Breaking News Maps. Both have integrated Google Maps to provide a constant stream of breaking news that makes News stories more visual and appealing. Similarly it also enhances the map surfing making it more interesting and thought provoking.
Maplandia
Maplandia has started geo-tagging the news with Google Maps few years ago. With more than 40,000 News items tagged, Maplandia has genuinely carved a way to spread an awareness among the people about different places and their related News. It has tagged various events with specific locations to spread the Journalism beyond territories. In extension to this fabulous service, Maplandia has recently created a UI that has indexed all the Word News on the Google Map from January 2005.
Viewing World News via Google Map would be really interesting. You can also browse the News for specific country as it has made separate News site for each country. It has also enabled a browsing through Google Earth Plug-in and hence you can look for millions of countries through a single plug-in.
Breaking News Map
The Breaking News Map is an animated map service that is based on the Google Flash Maps API. Its a highly flexible map service that automatically animates between various geo-tagged News. All you have to do is, select any desired area and The Breaking News Maps will do the rest for you. Thus, you can watch for your favourite place and a stream of its News without even a single click.
List of available features makes it all more interesting and unique. With the help of fast-forward button, you can forward monotonous News. While yon can also alter the speed of the News stories and play and pause them accordingly. Users can also pertinent the News content of maps by selecting categories such as business, politics, science etc.
WOW pretty nice future google map has got, will definitely explorer this future to find out how much interactive and fun to read breaking news from google map
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