PageMapper
Have you ever read a news story and wondered “Where is that city?”
Ever glanced at a headline and realized you had no idea where in the world
the article was talking about?
Ever wanted a quick overview of where the news was taking place?
Now you can know with the press of a button.
The MetaCarta Labs PageMapper bookmarklet
answers these questions. The PageMapper is a bookmarklet, which you can
drag to your browser bookmarks bar. Once you do that, you can click it to
see a map of the locations mentioned in most pages you view!
To get PageMapper, visit the PageMapper homepage
and follow the instructions.
Under the hood, the PageMapper uses
and loads data from the MetaCarta
Labs GeoParser API. PageMapper passes your browser’s document.location in the url=
argument to the GeoParser. This means that it fails on secured sites
(that’s a good thing).
We’d love to hear what you think of PageMapper. Tell us what it does for
you and what you wish it did.
–Christopher Schmidt, Developer, MetaCarta Labs