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This Ogle Earth entry discuss the difficulties of the automated mapping of geospatial blogs news items. Here's the link to the Google Earth placemark. From the blog: "In sum, I think that in the automated post-processing of blog content is not nearly as effective as the pre-processing of content [...] The main unsolved challenge is dealing with multiple relevant locations in one post. It's not something that GeoRSS is really set up to handle, as far as I can see."
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Here's an informative article hosted on GeoPlace written by Raj Singh, director of Interoperability Programs at the Open Geospatial Consortium, named GeoRSS: The Simplest Possible “Geo” for the Web. From the article: "GeoRSS developers are hoping that big players like Yahoo and Microsoft will soon provide GeoRSS support. The Internet and the Web are built on standards, and GeoRSS, particularly the Pro version, offers an elemental standards platform that will enable applications to exploit reliable, publicly available, data rich services and content. These might be proprietary or non-proprietary, but if they support the Pro version of GeoRSS, they will maximize the “network effect” of growing value that comes with large-scale, open systems. The High Earth Orbit blog adds GeoRSS support to Ruby on Rails mapping.
The Challenge of Semantics
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Vector one emphatize on the challenge that is semantics. From the blog: "As an analogy, translation can be seen as moving data using WFS or WMS, for example. But interpretation is something altogether different. [...] One would think that geography and coordinates would make that simple. It does, for location. But features and attribution bring different semantics into consideration." Be sure to read the GeoSpatial Semantics blog is this is in your interests.
Geo-Enabling the Blogosphere
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The Geospatial Semantic Web Blog discuss the scarcity of geo-enabled blogs. Andrew Turner shortly discuss Geospatial Content Management Systems. Meanwhile, there are related stories about geo-enabling Drupal, WordPress. And since I'm not good at keeping secrets, we're working on geo-enabling slash. From the GSWB: "Geotagged blogs will enable web search engines to effectively index blogs based on geographical information. This information will help to build more powerful search engines that support spatial queries (e.g., find all blogs on the topic “war” and written by people who are located in “Iraq”)."
Journalism Going Hyperlocal?
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The Memory Link offers a short entry on the localization of journalism and the ties with geospatial technologies. It links to this Frontline article about hypoerlocalization of newspaper: "The second thing that's happened at the Tribune and at the L.A. Times in particular is that newspapers around the country have figured out that what you have to do today to survive is provide local news coverage. People want to read about what's going on in their own communities, and the Web usually can't provide that. The Web can tell you what's going on in Iraq; the Web can tell you what's going on in Washington, D.C. It can't tell you what's going on in Des Moines if you live in Des Moines." This article seems to completely miss the point about the geo-enablement of the web. See related stories.
YourStreet Launched - Hyperlocal News Tool
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All Points Blog informs us the new local news website YourStreet is launching today. From the how it works: "YourStreet transforms the way you experience local news by indexing and mapping thousands of articles, blogs, and conversations down to the street level. YourStreet connects you to the local information that impacts you most – what’s going on in your town, your neighborhood and even your block.
YourStreet scans thousands of newspaper sites and local blogs each day to bring you the most comprehensive local news available anywhere." I copied below the several previous stories on similar attempts at hyperlocalizing news.
Technology: Online Raster Map Georeferencing and GeoSearch News 1 comment
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TMN and FGT discuss two products by MetaCarta. The first one is Map Rectifier, an online raster data georeferencing and registration tool. The second one is GeoSearch News, from the press release: "GeoSearch News indexes an extensive collection of more than 1,400 national, international and local news sources every hour in addition to direct feeds from the Associated Press and Reuters. GeoSearch News provides users a single site on which they can learn what is happening now at any destination in the world." This is not the first similar tool, see related stories below. Update: 04/23 23:16 GMT by S : Corrected intro for accuracy, thanks to Chris Schmidt.
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