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This could really be neat: Echo MyPlace for sharing
By WDavidStephenson | April 8, 2008
Since my twin mantras for emergency information are:
- real-time sharing among the public
- and location-based information
… Echo My Place could really be an important development for real-time sharing of info in emergencies!
The Carbon Project, a MA firm, is working on a new P2P application, Echo MyPlace, that “lets you share location-based information about your neighborhood and connect directly with friends and neighbors.” It would allow sharing of photos and video as well as data: what a boost that could give to emergent behavior/wisdom of crowds in a dangerous situation. Sweet!
The company calls the approach “Geosocial Networking.”
While I can’t find a demo on their site, they are evidently already thinking of the possible security use of the system, with a page devoted to the topic. It mentions that benefits could include:
- Gain situational awareness
- Create ad hoc and survivable networks
- Extend GIS with geospatial interoperability
- Deploy a unified API for geospatial interoperability.
This one really bears watching!
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