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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Delhi, India

What's happening in Delhi, India — 3,388 local stories, 4 community pins, live on the Mappit map.

Mappit's analysis

Geography & Setting

Delhi sits on the Yamuna River in north-central India, straddling the transition between the Indo-Gangetic Plain and the Aravalli Hills. The city's geography has always been its destiny: the river provided water and trade routes, while the surrounding plains offered agricultural surplus to feed empires. Today, the sprawl extends across both banks, with Old Delhi clustered along the Yamuna's west bank and New Delhi, the planned capital district, spreading south and west. Summer temperatures regularly exceed 45°C (113°F), while monsoon rains arrive from June through September.

History

Few cities have been quite so relentlessly conquered and rebuilt. Delhi's recorded history spans over 2,500 years—it was a capital for Hindu, Muslim, and Mughal empires before the British made it the seat of colonial administration. Shah Jahan's 17th-century creation of Old Delhi (and the Red Fort) and the British Raj's 1911 reimagining as New Delhi represent the most visible layers, but the city's bones contain fragments of at least seven major cities built on the same ground. Independence in 1947 made Delhi capital of the new Indian nation.

People & Demographics

With 32.9 million people, Delhi is one of the world's largest metropolitan areas and vastly more diverse than most cities its size. Hindi is the primary language, but you'll hear Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali, and English in daily life—Delhi has always been a crossroads of migration. The population is split roughly between Old Delhi's dense, traditional neighborhoods and the sprawling suburbs of New Delhi and beyond. Class divisions are sharp and visible in the urban landscape.

Economy & Markets

Delhi is India's economic and political heartbeat. It's a center for government, media, education, and services—home to universities, hospitals, and corporate headquarters. The informal economy is vast: street vendors, rickshaw drivers, and small traders sustain millions. Markets like Chandni Chowk (one of Asia's busiest) and Connaught Place showcase the city's commercial energy, while tech hubs in the south reflect modern India's aspirations.

Culture & Character

Delhi's character is restless, argumentative, and urgent—the city that never fully sleeps. Old Delhi retains the sensory chaos of Mughal bazaars: narrow lanes, spice shops, street food stalls serving legendary parathas and chaat. New Delhi projects order and grandeur: tree-lined boulevards, government buildings, the India Gate. The contrast between these two Delhis—traditional and modern, chaotic and planned—defines the city's personality. Museums, temples, mosques, and monuments sit constantly shoulder-to-shoulder. The food is exceptional and regional dishes coexist with global cuisines.