June 2005
Intermediate to advanced
568 pages
24h 7m
English
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Set Up an OpenGuide for Your Hometown #97
Chapter 9, Mapping with Other People
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http://geolicious.com/
Geolicious, a spatial-media-annotating site.
http://www.akuaku.org/archives/2003/05/gps_tagged_jpeg.shtml
GPS EXIF metadata
http://mappr.com
Mappr, a tool for georeferencing Flickr photos by looking up tags in a
gazetteer of world place names
HACK
#97
Set Up an OpenGuide for Your Hometown Hack #97
OpenGuides are great, but what if there are none near you?
A wiki is a form of web site that is growing massively in popularity. Readers
are allowed, even encouraged, to edit and add to the pages on a wiki site.
Wikis are a great way to implement a collaboratively written web site. The
wiki encyclopedia, Wikipedia
[Hack #45] (at http://www.wikipedia.org/)isan
impressive and addictive example.
A guide to your hometown is very well suited to the wiki format, too; real
people on the ground can add and annotate their favorite places. Locals can
share knowledge that goes deeper than “find me my nearest branch of Star-
bucks or WHSmith,” and it will make for a more interesting read for travel-
ers than guides to tourist hotspots and pricey eateries published by hotel
consortiums.
OpenGuides is a wiki software package enhanced with geospatial attributes.
Each node or page can be given a postal code, spatial grid coordinates,
venue opening times, and addresses. OpenGuides was originally written to
provide a spatial-wiki ...
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