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Nice work James! Especially in getting people to provide their data for this. It would be really interesting to hear more about how you herded the partners into doing this, and what sorts of issues came up. Jeremy Jeremy Ottevanger Web Developer, Museum Systems Team Museum of London Group 46 Eagle Wharf Road London. N1 7ED Tel: 020 7410 2207 Fax: 020 7600 1058 Email: [log in to unmask] www.museumoflondon.org.uk Museum of London is changing. Visit www.museumoflondon.org.uk to find out more. Explore how the Great Fire shaped the city www.museumoflondon.org.uk/londonsburning Jack the Ripper and the East End a major new exhibition at Museum in Docklands, opens 15 May Before printing, please think about the environment -----Original Message----- From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of James Grimster Sent: 11 July 2008 16:20 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [MCG] Let's crowdsource an idea for Showusabetterway? > > Another addition to location/place-based data could include details of > monuments and sites. There have been various talks about making data > available (presumably using SMR/HER > information) to mobile devices using geo-tagging so when people enter > an area of particular interest, their mobile or sat nav alerts them > and then allows them to explore further information - this would be > particularly useful for world heritage sites. Museums or visitor > centres within sites could serve as 'hubs'. > > The people's network digi data (especially those 'sense of place' > ones) could also be included in a place-orientated information > service. It would make a lot of sense, and make more sense of the > collections that were described and digitised in that way originally. > > How mashupable is GIS data? Will OS ever let us use mapping freely or > will we use other mapping data? > > Tehmina > SMR/HER is mashupable, but in our experience the data can 'swarm' and overload mobile interfaces - http://www.discovershropshire2.org.uk is a _very_ early pilot mashing up HER, museum, local history and tourism data. A success has been getting a wide range of partners to crosswalk and expose their data as GeoRSS feeds, of which the site aggregates and displays as overlays onto GoogleMaps. GeoRSS has been quite a 'quick win' and other organisations in the county are enthusiastic at providing a feed - mainly because they have heard of / already have an RSS feed so it's not such a leap as more complex GIS APIs. So far, even with clustering, this thing still breaks browsers - so a warning, this is not anywhere near production stable yet and may do bad (Web 2.0? :-) ) things to your browser / phone, and you'll need to keep clicking on areas of the map unless you know any Shropshire postcodes. The plan for this is just as you say Tehmina, mobile users (and access points around the county) get location specific overlays - still a way to go yet though ... James ************************************************** For mcg information and to manage your subscription to the list, visit the website at http://www.museumscomputergroup.org.uk ************************************************** ************************************************** For mcg information and to manage your subscription to the list, visit the website at http://www.museumscomputergroup.org.uk **************************************************