This is where my site needs to go next. How about yours?
Rob Curley, news website visionary wrote this in a longer piece that is part of a recent Nieman Report. The giant relational database and geocoding are what http://creatingcommunityconnections.org needs next...
An interesting attribute of these local guides is that the entire LoudounExtra.com site is built essentially as one huge relational database. This means that all of the site’s parts can “talk” to each other. When a band is performing at a restaurant on Friday night, that information appears on the restaurant’s detail page and in the calendar. Similarly, with more traditional content, if a news story or review is posted about a restaurant, those same words appear on the restaurant’s page.Location is also a shared piece of data on the site. Called “geo-coding” and used with places and calendar events and with news stories, we often tie a Google map and driving directions to items appearing on the site. Such geo-coding gives us the capacity to group all of these different types of information — news stories, events, stories, advertising deals, high school sports’ results and church information — and display them geographically on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood basis.
Source: robcurley.com
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