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October 26, 2005

Geotagging and When: Why we need date and time as well as location

I recently asked Rev Dan Catt of Geobloggers to add a date filter to the output from his site. I had a few reasons for the feature request but I don’t think I could put it as well as this

…What happens to all the stuff we leave anchored to physical places but floating in virtual space year after year?…
…Think about all the tourists that come to take pictures of the Duomo, once they start tagging their pictures with that location, we’ll end up with thousands of pictures tied to that place. Now imagine that ten years down the road, someone visits the Duomo, would that person be able to say, find the photos their father took at that location?…

Better still, broaden geotagging out past just pictures. Include recordings (podcasts?), articles, impressions, diaries, emotional responses, videos, poetry, literature, related links. I want a rich, multi-sensory experience linked to a location with a history. My location aware device (of the near future) will be able to present this to me as I choose.

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3 Responses to “Geotagging and When: Why we need date and time as well as location”

  1. Eduardo Manchón Says:

    If you like Geobloggers, you may like the project we just launched:

    http://www.panoramio.com

  2. Geotags.org Says:

    Geotagging and When: Why we need date and time as well as location

    [Source: Grasshoppermind] quoted: I had a few reasons for the feature request but I don’t think I could put it as well as this”¦ ”¦What happens to all the stuff we leave anchored to physical places but floating in virtual spa…

  3. Ogle Earth Says:

    Geotagging blogs

    Mikel Maron’s Brain Off blog led me to Zoran Kovacevic and his recent spurt of work converging georeferenced syndicated content with Google Earth. First up, he posts about an XSL transformation he’s written, RSS2 Google Earth (get it?) that takes…

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