I got a German to look at it for me: "Well, judging from a quick glance (and the project description), they took a novel that narrates the trip of a camera team in Dakar/Senegal from the summer of 2001, when the country qualified for the football world championship for the first time in its history, and the president (who was an eminent figure there) died shortly after that. As the novel is about the team moving all around the town, the website uses the GoogleMaps API to track their movements over time, shown as map animations. Nothing too fancy actually, but looks modestly nice." (thanks to Alex von Luenen)
We have not written a geo-referenced English novel, but we have built a large collection of geo-referenced travel writing. The geo-referencing was done by adding XML tags following the Text Encoding Initiative guidelines, and specifically their <placeName> tag -- which, curiously, almost nobody in the TEI community seems to use. We web site uses the TagSoup parser to convert the XML tagging into HTML links to information about particular places. Could probably be re-done to link to something like Googlemaps instead -- but I do not want Google to own my spatial framework: http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/travellers Humphrey Southall Humphrey Southall, Reader/Director GB Historical GIS, Department of Geography, Buckingham Building, University of Portsmouth, PORTSMOUTH PO1 3HE Historical GIS team: 023 9284 2500 >>> "P Kishor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 26/11/08 2:02 AM >>> Now in other less boring news... perhaps the world's first georeferenced novel. Das ist unglaublich. http://www.senghorontherocks.net/part1.html Wish I knew how to read German. -- Puneet Kishor http://punkish.eidesis.org/ Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/ Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) http://www.osgeo.org/ _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
