Unleashing the power of google maps
Edu-Blogger posts about annotative possibilities of google maps combined with a GPS system. Edu-blogger links to a screencast: http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/gems/gmap2_flash.html which demonstrates the possibilites of merged GPS/Google mapping/video/digital photo fun. Except for the creepy last line about annotating the planet, it’s an interesting idea.
I have to admit, I haven’t graduated to google maps. Old habits die hard and I’ve always used yahoo. I am concerned about one thing though, and maybe it’s not important to anyone else. It seems “everyone” uses google. It’s the gold standards of web searching. But how many people, who accept that it’s the “best”–know why it’s the best, other than that’s what someone has told them. It certainly fractured the pre-existing system of multiple registration, fee-based priority, but in its own way it structures the reality of how most people search for information….and because it is, as nearly as I can tell, one of the ways the average person searches….that gives google an enormous stake in our perception of knowledge on the web…
