So here is the first thing I’ve managed to get out of Opencalais. Its not really that interesting but a few people seem to like it.

So what you are looking at is all the programmes on iPlayer whose synopsis contains something that is of geographical importance. Now thanks to Opencalais’ new beta we get the longitutude and latitude of a given point (without it, you would have to use something like GeoNames) hence a point on the map. Simple really.

Whats in the mix?

• All the same old iPlayerlist stuff, DB, html scraping, and what have you.
• Httparty – makes dealing with restful APIs rather interesting.
• Google maps.
• Facebox – for the lightbox thing.

So its another dumb map mashup. Now the real question is does it add anything new for the user? Well I’m not sure. I’m going to add a few colours to the markers, and output the geolocations in KML if I get the time.