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June 18, 2006
Gutenkarte mashes together the public domain literature at Project Gutenberg and MetaCarta's geolocator that scans the text and plots the place references on a map. Pretty durn cool. It's even AJAX-y. There are some other projects of a similar Web 2.0 ilk over at MetaCarta Labs. (Disclosure: I did some consulting work for MetaCarta a while ago.) [Tags: project_gutenberg maps gis metacarta web2.0 gutenkarte] Posted
by D. Weinberger at June 18, 2006 04:46 PM
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Surprised Google didn't do something like this for their Shakespeare compendium.
Posted by: Luis | June 18, 2006 11:47 PM
(Disclosure: I work for MetaCarta.)
Google didn't do this because Google doesn't have what MetaCarta has (or if they do, they're not telling anyone yet). Our geolocator is (frequently) smart enough to tell that "Media bias runs rampant in this country" is not referring to the city of Media, Pennsylvania, and that "We took a tour of the United Kingdom and saw Cambridge" is referring to Cambridge, England, not Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(And when it's not smart enough to do that, blame me....)
Posted by: Seth Gordon | June 19, 2006 08:37 AM
OF course, in the Web 2.0 world, MetaCarta could run Google's Shakespeare collection through Gutenkarte, couldn't it?
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June 19, 2006 09:35 AM