http://www.internetgeekgirl.com/2009/04/07/chris-brogan-annotating-the-world-around-us/ Life on and off the grid... Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:08:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.internetgeekgirl.com/2009/04/07/chris-brogan-annotating-the-world-around-us/comment-page-1/#comment-1252 Luigi Cappel Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:02:16 +0000 http://www.internetgeekgirl.com/?p=496#comment-1252 Actually this is nothing new. It has been done for LBS games in Europe on a number of occassions. One of them is like a geocacheing game, where instead of leaving physical items, people leave a comment that you can hear when you find the right location. It might be something personal or it might be a snippet of local history. I recently ran the Location Innovation Awards in New Zealand www.locationinnovation.co.nz and am working on the competition for 2010 at the moment. I have been talking to a number of people including universities about using LBS in this way for educational purposes, i.e. elearning. Imagine going anywhere, it could be the beach where you get information about the rock pools, fish and other life, or perhaps again getting histporical information. In Scandinavia they have had a solution in the Oland Archipelago where you can hold your mobile out in front of you and see an image of what the scene in front of you would have looked like hundreds of years ago and listen to a spoken history in your own language. I blog about LBS frequently on the blog above and at http://geosmart.wordpress.com Actually this is nothing new. It has been done for LBS games in Europe on a number of occassions. One of them is like a geocacheing game, where instead of leaving physical items, people leave a comment that you can hear when you find the right location. It might be something personal or it might be a snippet of local history.
I recently ran the Location Innovation Awards in New Zealand http://www.locationinnovation.co.nz and am working on the competition for 2010 at the moment. I have been talking to a number of people including universities about using LBS in this way for educational purposes, i.e. elearning. Imagine going anywhere, it could be the beach where you get information about the rock pools, fish and other life, or perhaps again getting histporical information.
In Scandinavia they have had a solution in the Oland Archipelago where you can hold your mobile out in front of you and see an image of what the scene in front of you would have looked like hundreds of years ago and listen to a spoken history in your own language.
I blog about LBS frequently on the blog above and at http://geosmart.wordpress.com

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