News Localization Mod Concept

[itanshi]

First of all I am not a coder. I am better at coming up with concepts. So, this mod is for localizing news. In this fashion news can be found in your city, state, or country by links on the stories and a scale on the side. This could work with a map API too. The info could be spidered off the article automatically or manually inputted on submitting.

Tour: Click on profile, input zip code. Then click on political news. Your zip code's political news will be displayed or a link to add some. A scale of some design allows you to zoom out to county, state, country, world etc which each will show you more news under that category. Links on each story reveal where they come from and further exploring can be done there.

Feel free to brainstorm and adapt. Thank you.

[filippodb]

that's a great idea, I totally agree, I wish pligg will have this kind of localization too!!

[tangmonkey]

Any movement on this? I would be very interested in something like this!

[beatniak]

1) turn on the module "users_extra_fields"
2) create the field country/city/zip/address
and/or
3) turn on extra fields and create the field country/city/zip/address
4) when submitting story attach the geo location to the story
5) do something with that info (fetch stories by region, integrate a gmap, whatever)

[beatniak]

demo of gmaps + address integration: Goboz Portland - Restaurants - Milky Way

[pirrer]

Originally Posted by beatniak

demo of gmaps + address integration: Goboz Portland - Restaurants - Milky Way

wow. so will it be a new free mod in Pligg 1.0?

[beatniak]

Like i said here ( http://forums.pligg.com/pligg-mods/8...html#post39012 ) i will release it later. This weekend pligg 0.98 will be launched, so i guesstimate my gmaps module will be launched before pligg 1.0.

When commenting or whatever about the gmap module, please keep it in that forum thread. So this thread won't be hijacked.

[itanshi]

Originally Posted by beatniak

Like i said here ( http://forums.pligg.com/pligg-mods/8...html#post39012 ) i will release it later. This weekend pligg 0.98 will be launched, so i guesstimate my gmaps module will be launched before pligg 1.0.

When commenting or whatever about the gmap module, please keep it in that forum thread. So this thread won't be hijacked.

Thanks tho, thats a swell step towards the concept, I look forward to testing it and thanks for the info. I'll see what I can do with it.

[raustin]

Any further updates on this one?