Mappit.ai — every place has a story: the world's news on a live, interactive map

Mappit — every place has a story

The world's zeitgeist on a map. Mappit turns the world's news into a living, interactive map. An always-on news engine continuously reads what is happening in nearly two thousand places — its own crawler, which reads the world's publishers directly and supplies more than nine in ten new stories, working alongside frontier AI from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI in the jobs a crawler cannot do — and pins each story to the place it is about, on an interactive, time-aware map of the planet. Zoom into any city and you see what's happening there right now — grouped by topic, colored by mood, drawn only from publishers that clear a reliability bar and weighted toward the most trusted, marked with how many independent sources found it, and with every source link checked so the stories you read actually lead somewhere real. Scrub the calendar backwards and the map replays how the world looked on any past day, because each day's record is kept rather than replaced.

On top of that news layer, Mappit adds live views of the physical planet — earthquakes, wildfires, air quality, and weather — and a market layer that plots stock movements at companies' real headquarters. A built-in AI guide named Marco answers questions about any place and cites its sources — the news there and, from an atlas of open data, its population, borders and statistics, each figure with its year and source. Seven map apps show the numbers beside the news: they color the world's countries and America's states, counties and congressional districts by the economy, population, health, conflict and the 2026 US elections, from open data, and play them back through time. Anyone can browse for free; a subscription unlocks the ability to create and share your own places, collections, and data layers. And AI assistants can read Mappit directly: add https://mappit.ai/mcp to Claude, ChatGPT or another assistant, free and without an account.

The core idea is simple and durable: place + time is the most natural way to organize what is happening in the world, and the value compounds every day as the record grows. The map is the interface; the permanent, corroborated, geolocated corpus of world events beneath it is the substance.

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Perth, Western Australia, Australia

What's happening in Perth, Western Australia, Australia — 911 local stories, 0 community pins, live on the Mappit map.

Mappit's analysis

Geography & Setting

Perth sits on Western Australia's Swan River, sprawling across a sun-baked coastal plain 4,000 kilometres west of Sydney. It's one of the world's most isolated major cities — the nearest significant metropolis is Adelaide, nearly 2,700 km away. This isolation has shaped everything about Perth: its independent character, its boom-bust economy, its sense of being a world apart.

The city's geography divides neatly: the Swan River creates natural boundaries, while the Indian Ocean defines its western edge. Beaches are everywhere — Cottesloe, City Beach, Scarborough — and they're genuinely good. The hinterland extends into bushland where native eucalypts and wildflowers dominate the landscape.

History & Character

Perth was founded in 1829 as a British settlement, but remained sleepy for over a century. The real transformation came with gold discoveries inland (1890s) and, more recently, the resources boom driven by iron ore and liquefied natural gas exports. That boom made Western Australia wealthy, but also volatile — Perth's property market and job market have always reflected global commodity prices.

Today, that frontier energy persists. Perth feels simultaneously laid-back and ambitious, a place where outdoor living is religion and ambition is quietly fierce.

People & Demographics

Perth's population of 2.2 million makes it Australia's fourth-largest city. It's grown substantially over the past two decades, drawing migrants from across Europe, Asia, and Africa. The city has significant Indian, Chinese, and British communities, among others.

Economy & Markets

Resources remain central to Perth's economy — Woodside Energy and BHP have major operations here — but the city is diversifying. Finance, healthcare, technology, and education are growing sectors. The property market remains robust, as reflected in recent weekly sales surges, though it remains sensitive to international economic conditions.

Culture & Character

Perth punches above its weight culturally. Strong arts and music scenes thrive; there's excellent food and wine (particularly from Margaret River, two hours south). The city hosts major sporting events — the Perth Scorchers dominate Big Bash cricket — and invests in international events to raise its global profile.

Beach culture is genuinely central to life here. Most Perthians live within sight of the ocean and treat it as their backyard.

Current Currents

This July, Perth is balancing growth with sustainability. The city is planting 3,400 native species for National Tree Day, the real estate market is humming with strong sales, and Plateful Perth brings the hospitality sector into focus. Even as Perth Scorchers prepare for summer cricket, a cold snap reminds residents that winters do exist — and climate remains a contested conversation, as energy giant Woodside's legal battles with climate activists illustrate.

Perth is prospering, but asking harder questions about what kind of city it wants to be.