[Geowanking] beyond map mashups

[Brian Grant]

is this a fair summary of what you're looking for, Steve?

geo-spatial index with following attributes:

-  3 dimensional (designated regions of volume)
-   recursive divisions and subdivsions of regions (resolution increases 
with address length)
-   converted from lat-long (locating a single point of reference 
contained within universally addressable region)
-  resolution of the designated region based on accuracy of the location 
measuring device (how precise - and hopefully accurate - is your GPS 
performance?)

if so, I am too.

  - Brian



stephen white wrote:
> On 17/06/2008, at 8:36 AM, Raj Singh wrote:
>> One simple way to discuss this in the short term is to start "wanking"
>> on the various spatially-enabled, Yahoo Pipes-like tools. I know this
>> isn't as meta or universal as you're talking about, but it's a place
>> we can mess around with coding and not just talk theory.
> 
> 
> I took a couple of days before replying so that I could think of an  
> explanation for my problem with Pipes/mashups in this context.
> 
> First, the points in favour of your suggestion are that removing the  
> map interface does generalise the information to a more general  
> context. The use of programming does create the flexibility to relate  
> information that is not reduced to a red dot on a map.
> 
> But... :)
> 
> The problem is that the information has already been reduced before it  
> can be manipulated by the code. It is no longer three dimensional, and  
> it is no longer surrounded by the original context. The data has been  
> captured and slotted into categories.
> 
> So pipes and mashups are the valley of death that we keep rushing our  
> minds into, because it's not one problem. It's two different problems.  
> The mashup has specific interfaces to display the data it is handling.  
> The information needs to be the full amount of data that was captured.
> 
> So we need to concentrate on 3d, audio, video, and the real world like  
> Google Earth's and Microsoft Virtual Earth's 3d modelling efforts.  
> Capturing data and extracting computable information, rather than  
> humans translating for computing convenience.
> 
> So I believe a 3d environment in real time is the minimum starting  
> point. So I could go to something like Second Life, but that lacks the  
> scope and ambition of mirroring reality itself.
> 
> Sure, I could go work for companies doing that kind of stuff, but to  
> be a matter of routine existence it does need to be ad-free. So...  
> free. :)
> 
> Steve.
> 
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>    steve at adam.com.au
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