Mike Liebhold wrote:
This year, I'm thinking of finding a sponsor, and formally articulating a 'Tricorder Challenge' (perhaps at Where2.0) to geo hackers, search engines and GIS guys, to demonstrate the deepest, richest, and ideally filtered collections and views of -standard- and -interoperable- geodata, and hypermedia in a single place. Ideally a tricorder will tell us -everything- about a very narrowly defined place: Here! Everything about the environment, infrastructures, health and safety, public resources, history, culture, commerce, and commentary, decorations, and entertainment, available - here- (wherever )
Have you seen Kevin Kelly's, "The Big Here" Challenge? http://www.kk.org/helpwanted/archives/001084.php It is a 30-question challenge of what a "tricorder" should be able to do. Things like: * Where does your garbage go? * Point North * Where does your electric power come from and how is it generated? and so on. I think it's a great example of what else is important to find out about "here" other than "where can I eat?" :) Andrew _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list Geowanking@lists.burri.to http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
