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GPS and WWW

The idea of using a GPS as a location sensor for a wearable has been around
for a while now. I'm wondering how much information is out there on the web
that is indexed by geographical location and that could be accessed by a
wearable with a GPS, a wireless modem, and a web browser.

Examples of useful information include maps, current events, descriptions of
buildings, places and regions (hotels, restaurants, ...) etc. etc.
Especially interesting - but probably non-existing - would be a translation
from street addresses into GPS locations or vice versa.

I'm trying to compile a list of publicly accessible web sites that provide
this kind of information.

Anyone know about such sites?

-Gerd

__Gerd Kortuem______________________________________________________
 Wearable Computing Research Group
 Department of Computer Science, University of Oregon

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