The “Internet of Places” is a nice article putting forth an ecosystem of information and services to bring the geospatial world better in line with the Web. Or one could even say it suggests an information ecosystem where geospatial data would help the Web make a quantum leap in information linking and tagging. I...
Who says Google doesn’t care about standards? When playing around with the RSS feed from Picasa Web Albums, I was pleasantly surprised to see full-blown GeoRSS GML for the geo-located items. In fact, they are recording both an Envelope and a Point for the photo. I don’t know where the Envelope comes from, because...
I’ve posted some updates on GeoRSS use by twitter, weogeo, Geospatial One-Stop, and Adobe Air this year on the GeoRSS Weblog.
After the untimely demise last year of my sandbox server at MIT, I haven’t been good at advertising (or even doing) technology experiments. I’m finally getting my act together now, and have a few interesting things out on the Interwebs: Coordinate projection service is a useful little thing that also is a nice sample...
Investigating the location of the WUMB transmitter, Doc Searls notes that while the Live Maps birdseye view is awesome, it’s way too hard to find and share. John Udell picks up the thread and suggests a workaround, but that’s not the point of my mentioning this. Personally, I haven’t had much of a problem...