Where 2.0, Morning 1
Schuyler, from here at MetaCarta: Mapping the Maximum City. How architectures of participation make it possible to create the geodata that we *all* need. OpenStreetMap leading the way with tag-style geodata creation, but long way to go for all of us. We need to solve the problems of a structured data geowiki, and there’s lots of work to do, and it will help everyone from the slumdwellers of mumbai to the residents living under the OSGB reign.
Topix: Creating local news pages by tagging documents on the web. “We don’t do NLP” — describing the different ways to disambiguate, from city mayor names, to names that residents attibute to themselves (Bay Stater, Nutmegger). Creating 32000 zip-code based news pages.
Google: Google Street Map View, Google Mappletts, now indexing and providing search access to GeoRSS feeds (as of this morning).