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….
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Posted June 15, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: api, bbc, future of news, geolocation, gps, news, poynter institute, reported.
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[...] 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? [...]
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pls show us some news of Pakistan and the truth as well that
Are you ferrgton from Mush shibjee