Joshua Street wrote:
I was wondering if search engines (Google, I'm looking at you) can/do make use of this "ICBM" data for localisation? I know that it works on IP blocks, and possibly other data, but why not this as well? Or do search engines use this information already?
Richard Rutter from Clagnut is using geotags on Multimap to geographically locate blogs.
http://www.clagnut.com/blog/371/
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=50.8452&lon= -0.1305&scale=100000&local=blog&localinfosel=true
Which is pretty cool.
What would be cool is if you could get your mobile phone to update the geotags on your blog about your location, that way people would always know where you were. Of course you'd want to have a privacy option to turn it off.
Actually strike that, it's a crap idea. If you did that, it'd be great for thieves. They know you've got loads of cool kit because you blog about it, they know where you live because of your geotags and they know if your not home, and how far away you are from home, because your mobile tells them so.
Andy Budd
http://www.message.uk.com/
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