News sources and more thoughts

Today I've picked up 3 news. I didn't do much with it but the project is going forward nonetheless.
I've been thinking about some issues. One of them is the news sources.

• Newsalert

2 things I put on the map were coming from "newsalert". I've always think twitter was a great way to get breaking news. I'm not sure who is behind newsalert but, one thing for sure, it's not "reliable". I mean, not every news are covered. (maybe I will try to contact them/him/her to know more) they can be a day without a tweet (though there are breaking news worth being covered...)
Actually, Newsalert inspired me MappyNews.

Anyway, today was great. 2 breaking news. that's I've put on a map right away. I couldn't spend to much time on it, so there were no real "added value". just a continuation of the experiment.

I didn't tweet those because it was already done. Newsalert could be a "partner" of Mappynews. I don't want to duplicate the content but enrich it.

Both link in Newsalert were from the BBC website. I put them on the map. But after thinking about it, I should make a research in Google News and link to that so as to offer diversity of coverage, and as well as the latest evolution of the news.

• Floods in Mozambique

That's the other thing I've put on the map. It's no breaking news I think. It's been 10 days or so. But i've picked up an article in my feed reader.

Actually when i did a research on Google Maps for "Flood in Mozambique", it return some mapping already done by the company. It seems there were some important floods there in February 2007.

• Location of a small village in south Thailand

After mapping (not precisely) the Thai ambush this morning, I've tried to find the district or the village in Google Maps but all i found was the news I had mapped 5 minutes before. Are there that quick to index the content in GMap? I need to run some test. maybe the research include what we have mapped.

• Links to Google Maps content

One thing I would have like is to be able to link from Google Maps to Google Maps without openning a new tab. It must be possible. there has to be way though I know it's going to be difficult for me to find it.
It could be great. The link in the bubble will add other content when being clicked.

For example, My brother gave me a link. it's a map by the french newspaper "20 minutes" with all the places where Sarko (French lame president) is going. I added that link in the bubble. When clicked I would just like the content being added to the map. not open a new tab with a new map. See what I mean?

• Website edition problems

For the time being MappyNews is not ready to be launched further. I have got a problem on editing the website in Google Page Creator. (Hope the new version is coming soon)
The map script doesn't behave well in the window when being edited. Hard to explain.
I've tried another version of the website. and another one.
I'll give you the update when I solve the problem.