Comments on: Open Docs in Government: Domesday http://boakes.org/open-docs-in-government/ A place for words and data that I publish (for the benefit of persons unknown). Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:00:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: murky http://boakes.org/open-docs-in-government/comment-page-1/#comment-2695 murky Tue, 13 Sep 2005 07:41:23 +0000 http://boakes.org/?p=470#comment-2695 p.s. like the photo ;) p.s. like the photo ;)

]]> By: Murky http://boakes.org/open-docs-in-government/comment-page-1/#comment-2694 Murky Tue, 13 Sep 2005 07:40:45 +0000 http://boakes.org/?p=470#comment-2694 Yeah, and getting all those image servers to timestamp the terrain photos to bring true 'how the earth looked in 2005' ability might be a little tricky... still it's just simple space limitations.... Once the browser plugin for Google earth becomes available, it'll be bye bye lonely planet guide books.... Yeah, and getting all those image servers to timestamp the terrain photos to bring true ‘how the earth looked in 2005′ ability might be a little tricky… still it’s just simple space limitations….

Once the browser plugin for Google earth becomes available, it’ll be bye bye lonely planet guide books….

]]> By: Rich http://boakes.org/open-docs-in-government/comment-page-1/#comment-2693 Rich Mon, 12 Sep 2005 07:44:20 +0000 http://boakes.org/?p=470#comment-2693 I'm strongly inclined to agree. When I started looking at the 1986 Domesday maps and zooming in and out I immediately noticed the similarity to the Google Maps interface and then started to wonder what might be necessary to get them overlayed into Google Earth. Bookmark links would certainly be possible so that all the existing image and text data could appear in situ. Looking forward, combining Google Earth with web services like online photo albums<a href="flickr.com" rel="nofollow">flickr</a>, and geographically-coded web content, there is a very real possibility of a global Domesday book. The only thing lacking is the guaranteed availability of content from specific time windows because the web is notoriously ephemeral, and there's too much content to be cache. Though I can't help but wonder if the <abbr title="differences">diff</abbr> capabilities in services like <a href="http://wikipedia.org/" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a> could be used to wind back the encyclopaedic clock so that (for example) if, in 15 years time, you look back at 2005, then any encyclopaedic references browsed could be from that time too. I’m strongly inclined to agree. When I started looking at the 1986 Domesday maps and zooming in and out I immediately noticed the similarity to the Google Maps interface and then started to wonder what might be necessary to get them overlayed into Google Earth. Bookmark links would certainly be possible so that all the existing image and text data could appear in situ.

Looking forward, combining Google Earth with web services like online photo albumsflickr, and geographically-coded web content, there is a very real possibility of a global Domesday book.

The only thing lacking is the guaranteed availability of content from specific time windows because the web is notoriously ephemeral, and there’s too much content to be cache.

Though I can’t help but wonder if the diff capabilities in services like Wikipedia could be used to wind back the encyclopaedic clock so that (for example) if, in 15 years time, you look back at 2005, then any encyclopaedic references browsed could be from that time too.

]]> By: Murky http://boakes.org/open-docs-in-government/comment-page-1/#comment-2692 Murky Mon, 12 Sep 2005 04:16:09 +0000 http://boakes.org/?p=470#comment-2692 Google earth is the new doomsday.....! Google earth is the new doomsday…..!

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