Google News Map returns

More than 20 years ago I was working on a travel startup, world66 , and in the process I got a list of all countries and their coordinates. Geo on the internet was young, so this was non-trivial. So I wondered what else you could do with this data. Back then you could scrape Google News if your Python script claimed to be Internet Explorer 5.5, so that was easy enough to code up. I didn't think…