Helping to put open data on the map – an experiment showing posts as pins on an interactive map of the world.

Be warned, geotagging is currently pretty arbitrary, as some posts don’t refer to any one location. Typically:

• If the post is about a specific place and there’s an address already published, that’ll be used.
• If it’s about a city, it’ll be tagged to the centre of the city
• If it’s about a country, and there’s no more specific information, the Capital city will be used
• If there’s no location mentioned at all, then the location of the publisher will be used (if that information is readily available)
• If the author has a public Twitter profile, and they state a location, that’ll be used
• If there are no reasonably obvious clues as to a location, then the post won’t appear on the map

View the main map (please be patient whilst it loads!)

• New versions will follow, e.g. to allow tag / category selection. Some first efforts at maps for topic areas in the list below:

  • Crime & Justice

  • Aid / International Development

  • Policy & Decision Making (inc open data policy as well as wider policy)

  • Food & Farming

View the main map