Where2.0 2008, The One Where We Gripe About Reverse Geocoding

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Going Places on Flickr: The Signiﬁcance of Geographical Information in Photos Catt (with Cope) Where 2.0 2008
State the problem:
Garbage in, Garbage out. It goes both ways!
How does that happen?
99.9999999% of the time, that’s just ﬁne (ish)
Why is it so hard the other way round?
Le Corbusier “Until then men had been aware of one voice only from above — bellowing or thundering — the voice of the storm.”
“[W]e can lay a persistently retrievable history of the things that are done and witnessed there over any place that can speciﬁed with lat/long coordinates.” Adam Greenﬁeld

+ Daniel Catt, 2 years ago