Washington Post Launches “TimeSpace Election” for Final Week of Election Coverage
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.
