Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Dynamic Applications in NeoGeography !!

                  Neogeography is a new term in geographical information systems (GIS) . It means 'new geography' and consists of a set of tools and techniques that fall outside the realm of traditional GIS and which combines the complex techniques of cartography and GIS and places them within reach of users and developers. It can be considered an interesting area in Human computer interaction which combines neologism and web technologies. These concepts started becoming more and more popular with the increasing popularity of ubiquitous computing and improved networked devices and Google maps and google earth and geo-spatial information.  It started and helps people share location information with other people and helping shape context and informationn and conveying understanding through knowledge of any place. 
                  The main characteristics of user experience are size, simplified interface using HCI, response time by rendering of information and cartography.As new applications and software begin to emerge, the uses of Neogeography are becoming more evident and versatile. Amongst the various trends, the most widely used, user-friendly and non-technical application of Neogeography is Geo tagging and geo-blogging etc. 
Geotagging
Geotagging is the application of geospatial metadata to a range of web based media. It involves the integration of geographic data or coordinates as latitude, longitude, altitude and grid bearing with non-coordinate geographic information such as data, text, photo, video, web resources and even people, for an effective visualisation and analysis. Thus there are different things that can be geotagged and information can be presented for other people.

Geotagging of Audio:  Geotagging can be extended by assigning geographical co-ordinates to an media like audio. geotagged samples are layered over Google maps, allowing one to zoom in on any spot on the planet and potentially find samples tagged to specific geographic locations. Scientifically, geotagged audio has potential in areas such as the environmental sciences. We can also create and online community which I am going to think in my project where we would ask users to tag their favorite playlists and songs for a particular geographic area , city or town or country. Geotagging involves using a latitude-longitude based coordinate system in simple textual form or information embedded in the metadata stored in EXIF format.
Geotagging of Photos: Geotagging involves the adding of geographic coordinates to digital photographs. Several internet-based applications like the Google Earth, Panoramio and Flickr assist to geo-locate images, while offline solutions are available as both, hardware and software.  Using Picasa, PicasaWeb or iTag to geotag and organize images integrating Google Earth or Google Maps, is a traditional and cumbersome method of geotagging photographs. 


Geoblogging & Geo-broadacsting: These are some other applications of NeoGeography where the user can publish blogs and broadcast videos and media and tag them by assigning geographical information to that media or file. This will help users around the world to browse around the world different things according to a particular geographical location.

In recent times, geospatial has evolved at a very high pace with new tools and software being integrated into a comprehensive seamless solution for wider and dynamic applications. As the uses of neogeography are becoming more evident and versatile, geotagging has emerged as perhaps the most universal and user-friendly tool, with its historic application in collating and sharing of images. Moving beyond, geotagging is fast developing as a technology enabled whiteboard for access, study and analysis of digitally mapped data and images. 

Thus are the benefits of NeoGeography which will be soon breaking the geographical barriers and bring the world more and more closer.
                          

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