O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 Conference isn’t until the end of May, but Google just released two sweet new map-related features: GeoRSS support and MyMaps.
The GeoRSS support means that any application that can output it’s geocoding — as simple as <georss:point>45.256 -71.92</georss:point> — can now be linked to a live map with no more effort than it [...]
Posted April 11, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: geo, geocoding, georss, google, local search, loosely linked, mapping, maps, mashups, mymaps. 2 Comments.
A discussion on Web4Lib last month raised the issue of Google indexing our library catalogs. My answer spoke of the huge number of searches being done in search engines every day and the way that people increasingly expect that anything worth finding can be found in Google.
There were doubts about the effectiveness of such plans, [...]
Posted May 4, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: google economy, google in the catalog, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, library catalog, linking, links, loosely linked, opac, remix, search engines, wpopac. 6 Comments.
