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Jan 30
Friday

VisualPin Will Plot Your Videos On The Map

Filed under Company, Technology

Australian start-up VisualPin allows users to “geocode” their videos by adding a Google Map to each different location in a video, with the map appearing to the side of the video. Here’s one of the best examples on the site.

To be honest, I find the map somewhat distracting from surveillance the video but I reckon it could be helpful when it comes to documenting travel, news or current actions. The technology makes a virtual location table of contents, allowing the user to click on a marked location to find the corresponding video content.

This appears to be a variation of existing technology that embeds YouTube videos in Google Maps listings. Also Google Maps mashups became particularly helpful for news media sites during the inauguration; CNN, Oprah.com and WashingtonPost.com all featured geocoded mashup videos from inaugural actions in Washington D.C.

Perhaps NBC’s Today show could use this technology for its next Everywhere in the World is Matt Lauer series.

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no responses - Posted 01.30.09
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no responses - Posted 01.30.09
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1 response - Posted 01.30.09
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The Resource-Oriented Architecture
no responses - Posted 01.30.09
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no responses - Posted 01.30.09
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no responses - Posted 01.30.09
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no responses - Posted 01.30.09
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