Bangladesh Boat API
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|14:41 UK time, Thursday, 22 November 2007
Premasagar & Annesley of Dharmafly have been working with the BBC World Service on the Bangladesh River Journey project. They've created an API to access the open content.
The Bangladesh River Journey is a mashup of posts from the World Service trip to track climate change in Bangladesh.
During the trip, photos are being posted to Flickr, messages sent to Twitter and diary entries sent to the World Service site. The mashup puts all of these on a map, letting you navigate around and follow the reports.
The journalists have a GPS navigation device and post their coordinates to Twitter each time they reach a new location (e.g. this post). The mashup system then uses the coordinates to map each photo, tweet and diary entry.
Go ahead and use the API to create something new. There are many options available and there's also a Greasemonkey API to directly interact with the World Service site.
The World Service mashup includes microformats and other technologies and contains a wealth of hidden data, which can be seen here in full.
Do you have any ideas for innovative ways to remix and mashup the data? Share your thoughts and questions on the Backstage mailing list.
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