I've been thinking about the possibility of networked information tied to location for 4 or 5 years now. What would be possible with ubiquitous networked portable devices (like, say, cellphones...)?
What are the creative or commercial possibilities? And what would you need to make it happen?
Well, one of the things we're still waiting for is clearly a 'digital camera for location':
Annotating places is a new practice for which there is clearly a need, but for which there is no successful service at the moment because the technology for capturing one's location is not quite yet cheap enough, reliable enough, and easy enough to use. In other words, to get a 'Flickr for maps' we first need a 'digital camera for location.'
