If you tag your Flickr photographs with geotagged, geo:lat=xx.xxxx and geo:lon=xx.xxxx, then add a link to Geobloggers.com in the photograph description, you can click that link to see a Google Maps map displaying photographs taken nearby by yourself and others. It works with usernames too, so you can see a Google Maps view of your tagged photographs.

Try it out on this tedious snap of a rainbow on Gibson Street, Glasgow, or take a look at my Geobloggers page.

(Of course, finding the coordinates of a given location isn’t always easy - I just happened to know, roughly, the longitude and latitude of Gibson Street because I used to live at the top of it. Feel free to point and laugh.)

It’s been put together by 4th year Computing Science student Derek Murray, and very nicely too, retrieving and parsing feeds with the excellent MagpieRSS, with a soon-to-be GPL licensed custom PHP script doing the rest of the work.

I’ve long been a fan of services that tie virtual and geographical locations together - things like GeoURL, which is currently on hiatus, or Multimap’s recent addition of a Weblogs category.

Thanks to everyone’s current fave web services, del.icio.us and Flickr, and their freeform tagging features, you can get lots of Glasgow-based content in your browser or aggregator. Look here (Atom/RSS) for a rolling visual survey of the city, or check the GlasgowPhoto pool for a filtered selection of weegie pics.

For links, the Glasgow tag page (RSS) on del.icio.us is still a bit slow-moving, but hit Scotland (RSS), and you get a wealth of links to everything from Alasdair Gray short stories to aerial views of Dundee.

I’m sure there must be other ways to loosely aggregate content by location - any ideas?

This device is tracking my position all day today by logging the WiFi nodes I pass. (I’m not entirely sure why.)

And, for added geekiness, I’m posting this from my telephone. It’s like being in the future, eh?

I love the idea of giving websites a physical location of sorts, and this goes further than services like GeoURL (which is broken at the moment) by tying in weblogs with nearby resources.

Click here to view Submit Response at Multimap, and you can follow Richard’s instructions to add your own frequently updated personal homepage to the system.