| The internet has become a primary news source today. Much news is gotten through web services, RSS feeds, online channels and Social networking. Such large numbers of resources led to exploring available opportunities in online news and application development. On the other hand paper maps and printed guides are now leftovers of two decades past. They have been replaced by geo services like satellite imagery, GPS trackers, location data and maps, which represent the most advanced digital mapping technologies. Geo services are making our lifestyle even better as it has become something important part of our day to day life. Online service like Bing Maps, Google Maps, and Nokia Maps etc. allows searching and locating your finding within fraction of a second.;This thesis focuses on creating a tool for displaying news on a world map. The basic motivation behind the thesis is to combine the power of map services and news services to provide simple platform for news browsing. The users have the ability to get the latest news on a single click and see where it happened on world map! The tool also provides features such as display top news, search news by particular region; and so forth.;Web technologies like Bing maps, Silverlight 5, web services were used along with the Visual Studio 2010 as a primary development environment. The tool can run via a website and user just needs to have Silverlight installed on his system. |
