April 08, 2006
Platial
Personal Geography as Social Atlas
Platial is a google mashup where you create a personal geography by annotating a google map while building a collabroative atlas. Called 'auto-geo-biography' because the traditional views of place don't represent our relationship to them. Although a commercial site that may become mired in averstisement, it mixes social/psycho geography and locative media driven by storytelling and community building.
According to cnet, the service is part of an increasingly popular Net practice of taking otherwise static data, mixing it with another service, and creating new applications, commonly referred to as mashups. Sometimes, even a spontaneous community forms around it. Housing maps.com, for example, combines Google Maps and local real estate listings from Craigslist.
Posted by michelle at April 8, 2006 10:12 PM
