Another one for the map geeks, originally intended as a Friday afternoon post!
Sparked by previous discussions, I wonder if anyone is aware of any successful projects/tools that allow users to geotag resources on the web (or to contribute corrections/enhancements to things already tagged)?
It strikes me that there are plenty of places where you can upload and geotag your *own* content, but not really contribute geo information to that of others. The only thing I can think of that I've ever come across is http://www.flickr.com/services/apps/72157618453596744 which is a beta for Flickr images, but it doesn't look like it's under active development.
Not that it's a straightforward thing - if you are trying to 'place' a still image in a 3-D space it's not just a question of Lat-Lon, you've got direction, angles, zoom and all sorts to consider (if anyone has tried to add an image on http://www.historypin.com/ you'll know just how hard that can be, even with a nice interface and Streetview images for reference!).
Which brings me to my thought - how about an AR type mobile app which displays the image and then the user walks around with their camera smartphone until they see exactly the same view, hits a button, and the camera grabs and submits all the parameters it needs? Kind of similar but in reverse to the excellent Museum of London app. Not sure about the technical limitations currently, but from the human perspective (sorry, terrible pun) if people are prepared to spend hours in photoshop (myself included) doing these sorts of things - http://www.flickr.com/groups/lookingintothepast/pool/ - then I'm sure they'd be more than happy and have a huge amount of fun doing this.
James
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