Geotagthings es un proyecto de Julian Bleecker y Will Carter que proporciona software para asignar metadatos geográficos a cualquier recurso web (en la práctica a una URL, como un sitio completo, una fotografía en Flickr, un post de un blog, una entrada de la Wikipedia, .... Cuenta con feeds geográfico con los que puedes suscribirte a las geoetiquetas de un ámbito geográfico determinado.
… It draws from the collective impulses of a large network of geospatially-minded creative intellectuals and DIY afficianados all invested in creating new stuff to help make more habitable worlds.
En la quickstart guide explican por que puede ser útil esta herramienta para los que lo duden o no lo vean claro (los que creemos que lo local es una de las nuevas fronteras de Internet tenemos menos dudas; además Julian Bleecker es uno de los “explotadores” más creativos trabajando alrededor de las ciudades inteligentes):
Why would anyone want to assign a geographic location to a web page? The simple reason is that people are already doing various projects that fell within the scope of making web data _also_ geographic data and we felt that there was a need for a low-impact, easy to use tool to help in our own little way. The more involved reason is that the Internet and other networks are very rap- idly spilling out into the physical world. Whether you call it pervasive networks, ubiquitous computing or the geospatial web, one can easily anticipate that the networks need geographic semantics. In the physical world, location means more than a uniform resource locators (URLs). In the physical world, the data that is sluicing around also needs to know where it is according to an additional set of geographic information, such as latitude/longitude, or relative location to canonical landmarks, or simply the town or city in which that previously non- geotagged data has relevance.
We feel that Geotagthings is an important component of the larger toolkit of collaborative mapping projects. It provides a bottom-up resource for networked public contributions to mapping the web and making web resources "findable" and relevant to activities in the physical world.
We also felt the need for an additional, lightweight, open tagging mechanic for adding geographic semantics to things to go along with all of the other wonder- ful geo and location-based networking services already out there. Geotagthings is just one more arrow in the quiver.
Geotagthings is pluggable. It's not a destination, nor a community site. It's meant to be used by destinations and community sites, or simply while going about your business, surfing the web.
(Vía Pasta and Vinegar).
