Since my podcast last week, I have become much more interested in geotagging (thanks John). I have added a few pictures of the UF campus to the Flickr map:
Search for “Findlay” and click on the biggest dot. Refine the search to “University of Findlay” and you will see the pictures I took on campus yesterday.
Tomorrow is the last day of class before spring break. I wanted to do something with my students using geotagging during spring break. After lunch yesterday, while Dr Dyer (of the now famous – If class were like a chat) chauffeured me and my camera around campus, we passed this.
It’s an Ohio historical marker. There are thousands of them around Ohio. The main web site for information about the markers is
I had an idea. My students will be traveling home this weekend. They live all over Ohio. They could take pictures of historical markers and geotag the locations. We couldn’t find a project like this on the web. The above URL lets you see a map for the individual marker of your choice, but there isn’t a statewide map that shows every marker on one screen. Using Flickr and the tag “remarkableohio”, we plan to geotag as many of these markers as possible next week. If you have a marker nearby, take a picture and tag it with our selected tag: remarkableohio and put it on the map in Flicker.
When we are finished, you will be able to go to
and search for “remarkableohio” and see every marker in the system on one map.
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