This week sees the launch of wherewashere.com: whatwasHere.com wants to revolutionise how history is written. Its pilot website in Liverpool tells history like it’s never been told before: by everyone. It doesn’t only tell the capital H history of Liverpool, but the everything-interesting-that-ever-happened-to-the-people-who-actually-live-there history of Liverpool. It’s oral history for the My Space era. Based [...]
Archive | November, 2006
Free Our Maps (well, in the UK anyway)
[UPDATE] It looks like the Ordnance Survey are going to be releasing maps in a Google Maps style interface / license with an API. See the “Ordnance Survey mash-up takes on Google Maps” article on Silicon.com. It should be much better for rural areas than Gmaps… [/UPDATE] I’ve been reading the Free Our Data blog [...]
