GEO-EVERYTHING TECHNOLOGY

Aaron Sauer and Jeong

APLNG 083T

Geo-Everything

Everything on Earth’s surface has location—expressed in two coordinates

Easy to capture/determine exact location

Geolocation, geotagging, and location-aware devices

Geolocative data can be manipulated

Geotagging (geolocation) Associate digital resource w/ physical

location

Adding geographical meta data to photos, RSS feeds, and websites

Define coordinate, location name, etc

Refer to the location the page/photo is about

Mobile and web-based services

RadarNews, blog posts, restaurant reviews, etc

BuzzdLocal Info + user ratings and tipshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94FePaLyPag

Trak and Twinkle—mobile Twitter clientsAdd location to tweets indicate friendsShow tweets

Cont.

CollageUpload geotagged photoBrowse photos nearby or around the world

Mobile FotosFlickr browser/ uploader appGeotag photos before upload to Flickr

Don’t have a device w/ built-in geolocative capability?

Many other options Free or Inexpensive tools to capture and

display geolocative data are available Photo Finder by ATP Electronics Nikon GP-1 Google Maps Google Earth Flickr Maps

Photo Finder by ATP Electronics and Nikon GP-1

Capture GPS data and synchronize it to a camera’s data card to geotag the photos automatically.

Won’t have to think where you took the picture

Track the exact location and time of where your pictures were taken

Photo Finder Nikon GP-1

Google Maps and Google Earth

Who has used Google Maps and/or Google Earth?

Anywhere in the world Google Maps

- iPhone

-Labeling Streets, Neighborhoods, Buildings Google Earth - satellite imagery, maps,

terrain, 3D buildings

Flickr Maps

Viewers can see at a glance what tags are currently being applied in a given region.

http://www.flickr.com/map

Search anything you want

Pictures from all over the world uploaded to Flickr

Education Study migrations of animals, birds and epidemics

Data can include weather, population and urban development

Study and track trends/patterns

Create annotated maps and real- world locations related to works of literatureThe Travels of Marco Polo

Virtual geocaching

Placing media in an online “drop box” and tagging it with a specific geographic location

Drop.io Location geocode your collection of content—“drop”embedded map use a GPS to go to coordinates and find a

cache

Pros & Cons Broader access to greater amount of info

(ex. field research opportunities, social networking)

Geotagging ideal for retail sites and tourism sites

Privacy issue

Data overload

Questions

What would you most use the technology for?

What did you learn today that you didn’t know before?