There are already some videos about Where 2.0 conference online. To view these go to: http://where.blip.tv
One very interesting talk is from Adrian Holovaty, who was talking about: “Everyblock: A Newsfeed for your Block”.
In the end of his presentation he encuraged the audience: “Roll your own maps”. With standard maps like Google Maps, Yahoo Maps you get a lot of stuff but maybe you don’t really need this for your own map application. Additional you have no contol over:
- color
- fonts
- text size
- behavior over zoom levels
- road widths
- languages
of your maps. If you publishing a website you maybe use templates but you want to have full control to design you own cooperative identity. Why do we accept ‘no control’ for our maps? Personalisation become increasingly importance – also for maps. Therefore I thik this will change.
Further details on this topic: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/takecontrolofyourmaps
Written and submitted from Home, using my 802.11g WiFi network.
