"Boston.com, a regional online portal and Web site for the Boston Globe is adding … geographic search and referencing technology of MetaCarta … to provide users with highly-localized content."

"[Metacarta] is launching a free Web site that maps news articles to their location on a map. … The AP and Reuters stories are displayed in a window on the site, while clicking on other items sends you to the source site."

Hidden away in The Knowledge: "News organisations have been experimenting with geographic localisation software that has received funding from CIA and has been used by the oil industry to develop highly personalised local news products."

Reuters.com’s new geotagged NewsMap.