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A column in yesterday’s Toronto Sun should have stated Vanessa DiCeglie died at the scene of a car-truck crash and her sister Isabel, whose 23rd birthday was that day, died two days later in hospital. The Sun apologizes for the error.

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STEPHEN HUI Sun Media What if you could see pictures taken inside your neighbour’s home, hear the latest musings of a stranger a few blocks away and read about a traveller’s adventures in a nearby park, all on your computer? If they’re into geotagging, it’s possible you already can. Geotagging is the adding of location information to photographs, blogs and other media — and it’s catching on in a big way. There are already more than 26 million public images with geographic co-ordinates on the popular photo-sharing website Flickr (www.ﬂickr.com), the current epicentre of geotagging. Google Earth (earth.google. com), the virtual globe software, features 1.7 million geotagged photos from Panoramio (www.panoramio. com). Since 2002, web authors have encoded latitude and longitude in pages and checked out neighbours’ sites on GeoURL (geourl. org). Now, with the emergence of

GeoRSS, a method for including spatial data in the Atom and RSS feeds that enable the syndication of content online, it’s only a matter of time before geoblogging and geopodcasting become widespread. For ordinary web users, all this geographic information opens up another means of navigating the Internet. In contrast to searching by keyword and following links in cyberspace, geotagging makes it possible to discover resources in a manner resembling walking down the street or ﬂying overhead. Go to Flickr or open Google Earth, zoom in on your home or travel destination and you’ll see snapshots in the

vicinity scattered across the map or satellite imagery. In Google Earth, you’ll even ﬁnd Wikipedia articles that have been geotagged. Meanwhile, geotagging your own photos can be as easy as dragging them onto a map on Flickr or as hardcore as synchronizing a camera with a global positioning system receiver. Eventually, with geotagging growing in popularity and the geographic web constantly expanding, you’ll be able to select any area on the Earth’s surface and subscribe to a geofeed of the blog posts, news stories, photos, podcasts and videos emanating from there.

A Flickr photo geofeed in Google Earth.

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