Somewhat Related - You may like the GDELT Project: https://www.gdeltproject.org/

https://blog.gdeltproject.org/an-interactive-realtime-map-of...

this is so cool! you just know that it's real shit when the website looks like that. i wonder if this is gonna be the new "quality" stamp - a website not looking like the generic react tailwind app but rather stuff like this?!

The wii news channel did this! It was a cool way to learn the control and interact with the news.

Facebook Live used to have a global view, where you could drag around on a Google-earth-style map, and each dot would be a live stream.

It was amazing. Unfortunately there were crimes committed on stream, notably a mass shooting in New Zealand. They shut down the map view soon after that.

A news broadcast would be feasible, because presumably the streamers would be verified reporters.

Really cool idea. I love it.

I've actually been making exactly what you describe as a side-project - and am very close to launch-ready. I was looking for the same thing and decided it would be fun to build it myself. It's good to hear (at least one) other persons might be interested in such an app.

I'd also be interested—is there anywhere we can take a look?

me too. where could I find this?

Does this idea need a globe? Wouldn't it work with a map?

Built https://global-conflicts.com for this

Nice.

It took me some time to realize that you have to scroll to see the icons on the map. Maybe you can run the function you run on scroll also on load.

I see that you posted a Show HN 2 years ago, maybe you can post another one.

This is a cool idea. I think this is achievable with APIs/scraping of news sites, some machine learning/LLM (to assign locations to news stories), and an open source library like Leaflet.

A prototype could use manually sourced news sites that consistently use datelines that are easy to parse. It could be hard to scale that up, especially for languages-you-don't-read, but could still be interesting.

Could also have a global weather data layer/view, since that'll be relevant for extreme weather events.

Nice dream, go build it how you want it.

I have the same dream, but have not built it. Would be cool indeed.

It does remind me a bit of Snapchat's location stories on the map / I think other social media platforms have similar previously.

I read Snowcrash too.;D

Chrome only, and terrestrial radio, not news, but:

https://radio.garden/

Development Seed did this a long long time ago in Drupal: https://web.archive.org/web/20130430031803/http://managingne... https://www.drupal.org/project/managingnews

Awesome dream. I've pitched / currently attempting to pull it off for an Australian news org (scoped to their stories). But a radio.garden x gdelt is where it's at!

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