Hey, just a quick post to attempt to get some feedback about a geospatial web project that I've been working on with my friend Julian Bleecker.
Geotagthings is a simple way to assign any web resource - anything with a url - a location in the normal, human physical world. The tagging process works much like del.icio.us style bookmarking - surf the web, click on the geotagthings bookmarklet, then double-click a point on a map to easily assign a lat,long to the url. Once you've tagged some things, you can get feeds for your stuff, in georss or kml... or you can get custom feeds based on certain locations. Use the feed generator to define a place and a radius, and anything tagged by the geotagthings community that comes within that range will show up in your feed. Geotagthings is pluggable. It's not a destination, nor a community site. It's meant to be used by destinations and community sites, or simply while going about your business, surfing the web. Presently, we're in early beta..or alpha..or, anyway..we support the following, we're pretty sure: Firefox (all platforms) and Camino for the mac. You'll need the flash 8 player as well. IE should work, but the transparencies on the feed generator may be funky. Unfortunately, we can't support safari currently, as we're using the ymaps api, which is not very stable in safari. So check it out, grab the bookmarklet from the webpage, tag some things, and try generating some feeds. Flickr photos are nice for geotagging. Blog posts, news stories, People in your address book, etc. http://www.geotagthings.com Geotagthings is by Julian Bleecker and Will Carter, and we'd love to hear suggestions, comments, bugs, etc. thanks! _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
