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 and Anthropic 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, weighted toward reliable publishers, 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. Anyone can browse for free;
a subscription unlocks the ability to create and share your own
places, collections, and data layers.
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.
Mappit requires JavaScript for the interactive map. Every public
place, pin, collection and profile also has a crawlable page — see
the sitemap.
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