Microsoft to partner with local newspapers for MSN Local News Map

Microsoft, through their MSN Local portal, are hoping to provide local news on a map, in partnership with local newspapers across the UK.

Peter Bale, executive producer of MSN, said: “We are hoping to take feeds from local newspapers and tag every piece of information to a map. Hyper-local news online has never been more important and we think this is a really interesting growth area.”

Very interested to see how this compares with Trinity Mirror's beta news map in Merseyside which has improved since it's launch last year but still does not feel very user friendly.

Geo-tagging news content is a really complex task and presenting this on a map defies the usual logic of consuming news in order of importance, can't wait to see how Microsoft tackle this.

(From Telegraph.co.uk)