it’s amazing to see the
geourl database
begin to get a crazy number of submissions. there’s even a
movabletype plugin
that allows you to geocode and register individual posts. as usual,
such low barriers raise the spectre of abusing the system, which
prentiss riddle
is
pondering:
“What happens if every business, blog, or blog entry –
in the standard metaphor, every lightbulb — has a GeoURL? Aside
from the question of whether a central GeoURL server can handle the
load, won’t the concept soon cease to be useful if every GeoURL
report consists of a jumble of 500 “things” in the immediate
neighborhood? Imagine you hit the GeoURL button on your PDA while
walking down the street and it coughs up Joe Bloe’s five-year-old
report of what he was thinking while eating a sandwich at Subway,
thirteen competing business directory listings for Toy Joy, a bit
of GeoSpam about a sale at Buffalo Exchange, the current status of
the 29th & Guadalupe traffic signal, the locations of any GPS-
and WiFi-enabled vehicles or pedestrians waiting for the
light…”
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