[mongol]

The idea is a very good one. Thought about it just the other day. The news in Sweden just now are overwhelmed about report about forest fires, but very hard to follow as most of them are in "obscure" locations. People that are concerned about fires in familiar neighbourhoods need to search the locations to see if they are close to the locations they are concerned about etc. I think there is much promise in the idea to provide a map interface to news of this kind. The regular media is in any case not doing a great job about it.

But also many challenges. I noticed in the past days that the accuracy of locations in the news is much lacking. Location names are not unique so an automatic approach is likely to fail.