The Olympics make headlines! And there are so many subtle stories to tell that intersect with this huge world-class event, so many histories, so much nuanced info that can be paid attention to now that google maps has pushed out this Italian street data.
Google Maps Mania has a short list of a few people doing mashups with Olympic Games Sites. Tagzania was one of the first to exploit the new data.
It's funny to see how far off you can be in plotting data without any road data to work from, this Dolceacqua Place is terribly wrong. Oops. Can you find the real Dolceacqua?
yes yes, of course the ability to geotag hasn't been *constrained* by the lack of high-res maps, and, now that this road data has been opened up, it still isn't accessible to the geocoding services (you can't just zoom to an address in google maps). Your point well understood (& backed up over here as well, we have a bunch of unesco data, existing in so many areas without map data support - http://platial.com/tag/unesco). I guess my point could be refined into something like: Now that people are paying a lot of attention to this part of western Italy, it could be a great time to cross fertilize between local social histories, memories and observations with the more established Olympic event data. And that the road data can make it easier for some users.
Posted by: jason | February 13, 2006 at 12:23 PM
Dolceacqua is here: http://www.tagzania.com/item/10249
Certainly streetplans and roadmaps increase the chance to bookmark locations, but even without that or hi-resolution imagery, when users come, an interesting amount of locative information can be added. Tagzania's been sort of popular around our home base, so a city like Donostia, with no imagery of quality, looks quite well mapped: http://www.tagzania.com/item/3438
Posted by: Luistxo | February 13, 2006 at 04:47 AM