“Rocket Map” is a useful browser extension available for Chrome. The idea behind it is simple - help to read articles with geographical titles by placing those objects on map without leaving the page.
In the most of news there are mentions of city names and countries. It is good if you have in mind whole world map and can easily imagine distances and relative positions of mentioned objects. Most people can’t do this, we too.
There are solutions similar to our extension. Our advantage is that we allow user to work with the article on the page and to aggregate geographical objects on one map from this article. You will see the story from different angle, on the map.
There are different possible usages of “Show on map” tool:
- read news with new experience;
- explore travel reports;
- geocode company names and organizations;
- find positions of nature objects.
Install the extension and play with it. Hope you will like it!
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