Mapping Hacks

This hack combining google maps US with craigslist caught my eye from the del.icio.us feed. I actually quite liked this one; it gets nearer to the kind of public writability, and was described as “a taste of what the semantic web will do for you”. I have some niggles to do with how far the map, the data and the UI can be integrated with this approach; the listings don’t update and appear on the map as you pan around it. With a package like worldkit you’d get this. Flash does make some things easier…

I wanted to have a brief “told you so” moment, hauling out a description of the use of RDF geo-tagging for mapping things that i wrote down for the craiglist people last summer, and the craigslist demo that Mikel made with worldkit at around that same time.

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