This fits in somewhat with the recent discussion about fotonotes
and image tagging.
The video: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129
This technology takes thousands of images and combines them into an
exploreable image, where you can zoom in and explore buildings with
each individual image tagged and containing information that is
accessible. The creator of the technology used flickr to gather images
for his demonstration; we need to introduce this guy to Commons! He was
talking about how more information would be available - Commons images
tend to have far more info than photographs on flickr, and we would be
a better source of images with detailed information and data.
It's a fascinating demo, I hope this becomes widespread; if we can get involved somehow all the better. Enjoy.
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Ayelie
~Editor at Large