Matthew Knott - Blog

Geo-tagging is one of those things that really gets you coming up with all sorts of ideas, good and bad.

I've started using geo-tagging in the meta data of some of the sites I've been working on, and will eventually integrate it into this site.

Briefly, Geo-tagging involves linking an object to a geographic location, be it a movie, a photo, or a website. In turn this information can be plotted in mapping tools such as google maps. You could view a street and see everyones homepage URL (Would be a pretty geeky street I know). Google Maps already displays photo's linked to a geographic location and I'm sure it won't take them long to combine this with Youtube.

The Youtube tagging would have to be optional though, because I would be liable to find that Britney fan and give him a damn good shaking.

I'm planning on writing an application for the iPhone that geo-tags my blog posts for when I'm out and about, adding a small map of the area to the post. I think it'll be cool, everyone else will probably use it to track my movements and steal my iPhone...

To Generate geo-tagging meta data for your site, click here.