On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 07:43:15PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
Please don't spam this list with irrelevant content, thanks.
I didn't think the post that i forwarded was irrelevant at all. I think these kinds of massive local annotation projects with a "civic information" focus are totally relevant to what people may want to do with an open guide.
The wireless connection for me is because i worked on a lot of prototypes connecting a guide to local information portals on community wireless networks, where each node knows where it is thus what information on the guide is around it.
crschmidt also has been working on some GPRS / cellphone based prototypes for talking to the guide after a rough estimate of location based on shapes inferred from 'cellstumbling' mobile phone networks.
SOrry if posting local events to a broadly spatially dsistrbuted people most of whom cannot go to them is inappropriate to people here. Another nice example of people getting together to map and annotate collectively and intensely in a short space of time, is the upcoming openstreetmap workshop where they are attempting to map the Isle of Wight in as dense and complete detail as possible within a couple of days: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OSM_Workshop (and i can't go to that either, it sucks). This will involve a lot of geoannotated flickr pictures and so on.
jo