“it’s not just about broadcasting our whereabouts. It’s about the data and how valuable that can be for everyone.”
Here is an interesting post on the role of geolocation in the social media, as a tool to gain “unprecedented access to information about the world around us i.e. the world within a certain geographic radius”.
“Geolocation is content that has been tagged with geographic data such as GPS coordinates or a street address. This can be a video, Tweet, blog post, news story, restaurant review, or an entire lifestream. It is ultimately about geospatial awareness.”
AGCommons is well positioned to exploit and support this raising awareness on the value and potential of geo-referenced information for the benefit of development.
Read the full post here
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