Welcome and thanks for your interest in Local news.
This web application is the result of a sub-project which is part of the more global one called GMapify. Feel free to explore this website full of maps and geodata. Maybe you could find other interesting stuff ;)

Olivier G.

 

NEW on the blog (Oct. 12th, 2010): A new ViaMichelin Web Mapping product: the JavaScript API V2

#1.0
:initial release

#1.1
Changed:fullscreen layout

#1.2
Changed:XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant

#1.3
Changed:template use

#What is this application?

This mashup provides you with top local news around a location. This location is by default your current one (based on your IP address) but you can also change it by entering an administrative area (city, county,...) or an IP adress.

#How it works

IP addresses are geolocated thanks to hostip.info and normal addresses thanks to Google Maps geocoder. News feeds are provided by news.google.com and geolocated with the geonames.org RSSToGeoRSS webservice before displaying on the map.