Mapping the News API (Guardian)

Mapping the News API

The Guardian is now Geocoding/Mapping it's News Articles with it's New OpenData API

A neat way of finding news articles by location.

Experiment with the new API
http://www.guardian.co.uk/open-platform/getting-started

Start Page for Guardian Map API
http://guardian.apimaps.org/index.html

GeoCode this! (try a search term)
http://guardian.apimaps.org/search.html

CloudeMade Mapping
http://guardian.apimaps.org/map.html


Note: Articles that do not have a location can be updated by readers

Example search
http://guardian.apimaps.org/search.html?q=London

For Budding Developers:
Data Structure of the API
http://guardian.apimaps.org/data.html

Map API integration:
News articles by The Guardian.
Maps © 2009 CloudMade, map data CC-BY-SA OpenStreetMap.org contributors.
Place searching by Flickr. Font reset by YUI. Cheerleading by SteveC.
Design and code by Stamen Design.

Source:
http://www.programmableweb.com/mashup/guardian-api-maps