Amazing Sites for Tracking Maps, Locations, WebCam, and Photos Tracked by Location

Technology is constantly evolving and growing. I was googling a bit early this Saturday morning and I discovered some sites that were just awesome.

Google Maps - http://maps.google.com

Mappr - http://www.mappr.com - Mappr takes the tags that users submit with their photographs that they post online to Flickr (http://www.flickr.com). Mappr then shows the photographs on a map so you can search by a location. Currently, they are using zipcodes and place names, but they are working on including longitude and latitude. Nat at O'Reilly Radar has gathered some powerful web sites and tools that are focused on images, tagging by location, and more (http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/07/where_20_a_coll.html). Here is a cheat sheet for adding tags that tie in longitude and latitude from Phillip Torrone (http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/07/how_to_gps_tag.html).

NJ Elite 2005 - Engaging the Digital Mindset

Open-Source Software Resource Information

Open-source software is exploding all over the educational world and for very good reason. It is free! Also, many of the software programs are completely compatible with the epensive protected software.

Here are some links that provide information about using open-source:

1. http://richtech.ca/seul/ gives a directory of open source software by category. Also, you can search through the database by keyword to discover which software is for you.

2. http://richtech.ca/cgi-bin/seul/seulview.pl?recnum=656 - (http://sourceforge.net/projects/helpmeict/) - HelpDesk for Educational environment

3. http://www.brunswickwdi.com/features - - BIE allows you to bring data from various locations and protocols and merge them together to transform data in to information.

CSS Style Sheets Reference

Here is a wonderful reference for CSS stylesheets - http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_examples.asp