According to EMC more than 80 Exabyte (its a number with 18 zeros) of data has been produced between Jannuary 1, 2008 and today (March 12, 8pm GMT+1). See a live counter about data created and replicated worldwide.
The question is how can all this data be organized?
Fundamental organizing principles are:
The combination between location and time is very powerful to organize information. And based on the huge amout of data produced there is a lot of work to do to organize some of these data geographically.
We will see when we reach Yottabytes.
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The Geotag Icon is intended as a web “standard” icon for identifying geotagged content to humans.
The advent of inexpensive GPS devices and free tools like Google Maps or Flickr Map mean that more and more people are associating their content (typically blog posts or photos) with a specific geographic location. Such “geotagging” stores coordinates within metadata or microformat tags—where machines can find them but people can’t.
That’s where the Geotag Icon comes in. It provides a visual reference to a map link, or if no link is yet made helps viewers recognize the geographic relevance of the content.
It’s free, easy to use and helps us all visualize the developing semantic web.
[www.geotagicons.com]
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