Guardian's n0tice launches iPhone app for geotagged news

The Guardian's online noticeboard n0tice has today announced the launch of a new iPhone app, to encourage people to read and share breaking news based on a location.

The "see it, snap it, share it tool for geotagged breaking news" is now in the App Store.

n0tice, which describes itself as the "local noticeboard that lives on the web" and utilises developments in social, local and mobile, wants to encourage "people to see and report what is happening near them in real-time", according to a release.

"Today’s addition to the suite of services from n0tice means users can now see and post geotagged reports and pictures on the move from their iPhones," the release states.

The launch of the free app comes a week after notice announced its "open journalism toolkit", the opening of its API, enabling publishers to take data posted via the platform.

According to the n0tcie blog, the technology used to build the iPhone app includes the n0tice API, the release of which came less that a month after the launch of a n0tice Facebook app.

There are more details on the n0tice blog.

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