I've been doing research for an idea/project I'm putting together and thought I'd share a couple of links. This project won't happen until the fall, so the technology is sure to change somewhat between now and then. This makes for interesting research. Usually I'm looking for the current/future trends, but this time I'm trying to look at what's been done in 'recent' history.
The topic is basically mapping - how are people using mapping to present photos and video? (The deeper question becomes, of course, why would you? I should have more answers once my research is done.) There are some fascinating mashups, some helpful technologies and also some things that have not happened yet, but should. Here's just a few links:
A nice list of geotagging definitions and some lesson plans and other resources to get you started is here.
Flickr shows up on google maps, but Panoramio is another company doing more landscape and beauty shots.
I love this project, which sought funding at donorschoose.org last year. It won't be completed until May.
I went to a presentation earlier this week by FoundSF.org which is using MediaWiki to collect resources and design it's site. Should be even more and more exciting stuff over the next few months. It also looks like an excellent site for a class/after school program to use for research and then add their own contributions. And MediaWiki is an EXCELLENT tool with lots of potential for those willing to do their open source homework.
Actually, I've been quite surprised to see all that Google* is doing and others (like Wikipedia, sadly) are not. A lot of the information I'm finding is from 2008 all the way back to 2006. I wonder why these technologies aren't more widely used? Maybe it's just too much time and research!
* Google geotagged YouTube in 2007, Flickr added video geotagging in 2008, for example.
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He Thinks It's Geeky, I Think It's Cool
David Pogue at the NYT has this really helpful post up. If you've never encountered this problem, it can be quite a mystery.
"Final Cut, the editing software, was doing something I’ve never seen it do before: every time I adjusted a video clip’s position in the timeline, the software had to “render” (process) that clip again, which meant my sitting there for several minutes until it was finished."
He describes not only how the problem came about, but also how to fix it - even after you've started editing.
"Final Cut, the editing software, was doing something I’ve never seen it do before: every time I adjusted a video clip’s position in the timeline, the software had to “render” (process) that clip again, which meant my sitting there for several minutes until it was finished."
He describes not only how the problem came about, but also how to fix it - even after you've started editing.
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