Last week I got excited about the as-yet unreleased geolocation API for BBC Backstage. Now Larry D. Larsen of the Poynter Institute is excited too. In a post titled The Future of News (… Hint: GPS) he talks about putting news in geographic context with geolocation tags.
Eventually, clicking an article in a news/Google Map hybrid might zoom in to a 3D model of the area where an automatic pop-up starts playing a slideshow with pictures of the scene or streaming video along with the text news content. Imagine integrating Google Maps into your classifieds so readers could search for jobs based on what is close to their house. The possibilities are endless.
It’s aparently an old saw of his, but I hope his message starts to get through.
Credit goes to Ernie Miller for the blinking this at The Importance Of….
Technorati Tags: api, bbc, future of news, geolocation, gps, news, poynter institute, reported
Posted June 15, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: api, bbc, future of news, geolocation, gps, news, poynter institute, reported.
5 Comments
Comments RSS
TrackBack Identifier URI
User contributed tags for this post:
google video com (1148) - video com (767) - v deo (442) - video google com (159) - wwwgeotv (117) - www.dawnnews.com.pk (117) - google (92) - free v deo (71) - google video (70) - wwwgeo tv (57) - gogle (57) - 544 com (55) - wwwbbcurdu.com (52) - www.jeo.tv.com (51) - v deo com (44) - JEO URDU NEWS (43) - www.geonews.com.pk (43) - google v deo (42) - www.jeonews.com (41) - www.jeo.com.pk (39) - wwwgeo.tv (34) - www.jeo news.com (33) - dawnnews.com.pk (33) - www.dawnnews.com (30) - Google Earth com (29) - www.jeonews.com.pk (27) - www.jeo.tv (27) - www.jeotv.com (25) - WWW V DEO COM (23) - www.jeo news.com.pk (22) - jeo.com.pk (21) - jeo news urdu (20) - www jeo tv com (17) - wwwbbcurdunews.com (17) - jeonews (17) - jeo news.com.pk (15) - www/geo tv com (15) - jeo urdu (15) - jeo news.com (15) - score video com (13) - dawnnews.com (12) - www.pakistan.tv.com (12) - www jeo news com (12) - www.geo.news.com.pk (11) - google earth (11) - com video com (11) - jeo news pakistan (11) - geo news com (11) - jeonews.com (11) - wwwgeo news com (11) - www.urdunews.com (10) - www.jeo.news.com.pk (10) - www.jeo tv.com (10) - Urdu news (10) - www.jeo.com (10) - WWW GEO NEWS COM (10) - 2628143358349 (10) - v deo google com (9) - geo news com pk (9) - jeo news in urdu (9) - jeo.tv (9) - Jeo tv (9) - Geo News (9) - www.pakistantv.com (9) - free google earth living (8) - wwwbbcurdunews (8) - WWW COM VIDEO (8) - WWW GOOGLE VIDEO (8) - www pakistan tv com (8) - googleearth (8) - www jeo com pk (7) - jeotv.com (7) - wwwgeo,com (7) - free v deo com (7) - news (7) - www.jeonews.pk (7) - jeo tv.com (7) - latest on geolocating and news (7) - www.bbc urdu.news.com (6) - www.jeo news .com.pk (6) - wwwgeo news.com (6) -
[...] Also, see these previous posts on geolocating the news or geolocating everything or just search the archives understand why I’m so excited about things like this. [...]
[...] Now back to the technology question: how long before Google Maps goes real-time to show me firefighters in streets? How long before I can chase ambulances from my living room? [...]
slt tout je veux sohaite une bon vie avec plan de bon heur
pls show us some news of Pakistan and the truth as well that
Are you ferrgton from Mush shibjee