A map with a paper trail
Understand what is happening where.
Mapews is a map-first editorial view of reported events. It turns carefully bounded, source-linked records into a geographic starting point for understanding the world.
A compact window onto current events.
Mapews helps a reader move from a headline or structured alert to a place on a map and then to the original source. The map is an index and orientation layer, not a replacement for reporting, emergency services, or an official situation room.
Every published event is connected to at least one source record in the project data pipeline. Source links remain available in the event detail view so readers can inspect the underlying material themselves.
What appears on the map?
The current collection combines official structured feeds with a small reviewed news workflow. Structured feeds provide machine-readable event coordinates for sources such as USGS earthquakes, NASA EONET natural events, and GDACS alerts. Korean public RSS sources and the NAVER API HUB are collected as article metadata and only become map events after review.
Mapews stores short titles, summaries, times, category labels, location metadata, coordinates, and source links. It does not fetch and republish the full text of linked news articles. Some points are approximate provider points or a clearly marked capital-city representation for a genuinely national issue.
Read the point with care.
Not an emergency service. Mapews is informational and may be delayed, incomplete, or wrong. For urgent safety decisions, follow local authorities and emergency services.
A map point can be less precise than the event itself. Broad claims, multiple regions, and ambiguous places are rejected rather than assigned an arbitrary country-centre coordinate. See the methodology for the review and location rules.
Corrections are welcome through the public channel configured for the deployment. The contact page explains what to include in a correction request.