September 10, 2008 at 07:51Geo-Barcoding 2.0
Leave aside t-shirts and business cards . Let's see how the barcode allows you to create full-fledged “mashups” from online services and city objects.
The Dencity.net project , which was organized by our German comrades, can safely be called geo-barcoding 2.0.
Like the Semapedia project, the service is based on the possibility, through Googlemaps, to generate a geo-referenced barcode, and then print it and hang it on the street near the corresponding building or object. However, in addition to a simple link with a description, the author also indicates the type of institution that he marks, as well as links to other barcodes that seem to him related to the topic or simply interesting. At the same time, in addition to the description, a separate guest book and forum is automatically created for each barcode.
Thus, passers-by scanning the code receive more than a short help - they can leave comments in the guest book of the barcode, discuss this institution on the forum, set its rating, and add their own links on the topic.
As a result, a valuable database is created with information on urban facilities, which can then be analyzed by ranking the districts according to various indicators, for example, the density of WiFi access points or the number of vegetarian restaurants. The creators of Dencity have developed for this a powerful interface that allows you to visualize city maps, in accordance with the data of geo-barcoding.
In addition, authors of barcodes can change their content - description, links, category - but they will not need to re-paste the previously printed code, that is, the barcode is created and printed only once.
The next step, you can expect the appearance of special APIs that would allow third-party developers to create applications using other people's barcode tags. Accordingly, special companies should appear barcode providers to carcass every nook and cranny of the city and own the exclusive rights granted by the municipality. The placement of unauthorized barcodes receives the status of barcode-terrorism and entails prosecution by law. The income of barcode provider companies is, of course, based on advertising, which is generously sucked in by the user each time the code is read. Of course, there is always the opportunity to buy a paid account without advertising.
The Dencity.net project , which was organized by our German comrades, can safely be called geo-barcoding 2.0.
Like the Semapedia project, the service is based on the possibility, through Googlemaps, to generate a geo-referenced barcode, and then print it and hang it on the street near the corresponding building or object. However, in addition to a simple link with a description, the author also indicates the type of institution that he marks, as well as links to other barcodes that seem to him related to the topic or simply interesting. At the same time, in addition to the description, a separate guest book and forum is automatically created for each barcode.
Thus, passers-by scanning the code receive more than a short help - they can leave comments in the guest book of the barcode, discuss this institution on the forum, set its rating, and add their own links on the topic.
As a result, a valuable database is created with information on urban facilities, which can then be analyzed by ranking the districts according to various indicators, for example, the density of WiFi access points or the number of vegetarian restaurants. The creators of Dencity have developed for this a powerful interface that allows you to visualize city maps, in accordance with the data of geo-barcoding.
In addition, authors of barcodes can change their content - description, links, category - but they will not need to re-paste the previously printed code, that is, the barcode is created and printed only once.
The next step, you can expect the appearance of special APIs that would allow third-party developers to create applications using other people's barcode tags. Accordingly, special companies should appear barcode providers to carcass every nook and cranny of the city and own the exclusive rights granted by the municipality. The placement of unauthorized barcodes receives the status of barcode-terrorism and entails prosecution by law. The income of barcode provider companies is, of course, based on advertising, which is generously sucked in by the user each time the code is read. Of course, there is always the opportunity to buy a paid account without advertising.