A note from Skyhook's Rich Sutton pointed me to the video of John King below showing off not just "live locating" but also running correspondents' locations back in time and showing their recent "routes" which look just like airline routing maps found in the airline magazines.

What's unfortunate is that the CNN crew states that the app uses GPS.

The TimeSpace app allows time (publishing) and subject filtering of content (video, tweets, articles, etc.) about the election from a variety of sources in and outside of the Post. The results are plopped down on a Google Map housed in a Flash/Flex app. Users are invited to share their own election coverage.

Frankly, the app sort of blew my mind - it's a bit overwhelming at first. The help, a several minute video was helpful, but I was really looking for a more traditional set of help.

I could not find a way to filter the content geographically - changing the extent of the map does not seem to limit the results in any way. Keying in locations in the text search box was not successful in my attempts. I keyed in "State College" (Palin spoke there last night) and "Virginia" (Obama was there yesterday) but found no results during yesterday and today's time range. Strange.

- Press Release

Infochimps pulled together a map of newspaper endorsements for the presidential candidates along with some analysis. I went looking for such a map after hearing about the endorsements on On the Media.

The Saturday Night Live crew sent up John King and his "magic map wall" on its Thursday evening special edition. Engadget has images and the video. More interesting are the "heated" comments about the technology and why it seems SNL has better tech than MSNBC. Also, discussion of less expensive smartboards, used in education.

I used one of those years ago and found the tech impressive then. For the record, it projected the monitor image on a large white board and instead of a mouse, you "touched" the interface options (in my case ArcView 2's) such as menu pics to drive it. There was no "pinching" or other gestures, so far as I recall. Just by chance, there's a profile of one used in an elementary school in California online today. And, Medill shows of a new Smart Table in use by Chicago area first graders.

Editor-in-Chief for GottaBeMobile.com Rob Bushway gives CNN's John King and his magic wall the edge over MSN's Surface implementation. I'd summarize the difference he notes this way: the magic wall makes for great "show and tell," while the table implementation that's posted in a window above the presenter is far less engaging. I love that the media is taking the new technology out for a spin and finding where and how it fits the industry.

Many pages have maps of reporter locations and

You can also see all the posts aggregated together on a larger map. Our intrepid reporters simply add latitude and logitude data when they file the story and we do the rest.

Here's the technical details. We are using the GeoRSS Simple location encoding standard. This means that within our RSS feed for an item with geolocation data you will find an element like this:

51.5225 -0.1085

which contains latitude and longitude data, separated by a space, to describe a single point on Earth.

- Guardian Blog