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Show HN: My weekend project - NewsMap

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Re: Show HN: My weekend project - NewsMap

#3

Post by mhlakhani »

elliottcarlson wrote: post #2

Looks nice - though I noticed one issue with my locality specifically; Staten Island seems to just be "New York (Staten" in the database, and the one entry is actually for Oneida NY, while the Staten Island Advance (silive.com) is missing.

The data was extracted from various sources, I haven't had a chance to verify most of it since there's a lot to go through. I'll try fixing this entry though.

Re: Show HN: My weekend project - NewsMap

#4

Post by code177 »

mhlakhani wrote: post #3
elliottcarlson wrote: post #2

Looks nice - though I noticed one issue with my locality specifically; Staten Island seems to just be "New York (Staten" in the database, and the one entry is actually for Oneida NY, while the Staten Island Advance (silive.com) is missing.

The data was extracted from various sources, I haven't had a chance to verify most of it since there's a lot to go through. I'll try fixing this entry though.

Would love to get some insight into how and where you did this, local news isolation has been a real pain-point for me. Brilliant project, by the way - very clean.

Re: Show HN: My weekend project - NewsMap

#6

Post by mhlakhani »

code177 wrote: post #4
mhlakhani wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The data was extracted from various sources, I haven't had a chance to verify most of it since there's a lot to go through. I'll try fixing this entry though.

Would love to get some insight into how and where you did this, local news isolation has been a real pain-point for me. Brilliant project, by the way - very clean.

I'd suggest looking into freely available online listings and writing a script or two to extract the data out. BeautifulSoup (if you're using Python) helps make it a nearly painless process in most cases.

Re: Show HN: My weekend project - NewsMap

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Post by mehrshad »

First off, great concept. Always wanted to see a better version of http://www.world-newspapers.com to get a local perspective on international events.

However, I'm noticing some errors in matching sites to locales, e.g. US > CA > Fillmore (San Francisco Downtown) maps to the San Luis Obispo times.

Also, might want to consider tweaking the name to avoid confusion with the popular NewsMap [http://www.newsmap.jp].

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