Now that Google Street View is available for some cities in germany, such as Berlin or Leipzig, it also makes it easier to show to potential investors , and further increase participation online.
I wondered how difficult it would be to enable automatic KML layering,
after doing a specific research, such as buildings in Leipzig ( according to price or size criteria for example ) from data such as
( a company that inherited from the formaly east german housing cooperative )
This would be very useful, to choose, then view directly with Google Street View, buildings of interest for me and friends to invest in, while collaboratively compiling important data about the buildings, the neighbourhood,
by eventually enabling additional connections to every points on the layer for open comments or linking to wiki pages ?
Enabling each point on a KML layering to have some kind of URI ?
Or even enabler social networks ( people login from facebook, or enable a direct link map that can be added to identica and twitter, and serve as a tag for other interested twitter users... ? )
Hence enabling emergent collaboration for the redelopment of a city ?
Perhaps also a layer for open street map ? ( if that exists ? )
I do know about wikimapia which enables adding specific data about places
but I am not sure such tool is ideal when it comes to specific projects / our own project layers,
or for enabling the superposition of various layers extracted based on specific researches.
Perhaps also that Open Layers could be of use ( although I do not know much about it )
I also know that one can create ones own maps on google maps,
which could be one way to go.
In that case, how to enable automated access to databases directly represented on the maps ?
Then finally, how to make such databases, from private companies and from governmental organizations alike, directly available on maps.
( including access such as water grid information, public transportation data, electricity, gas, fiber optic internet grid data... ? - latest dates for construction works, or planned construction works, ... - or data regarding the condition of the houses, legal information , size of buildings, fire department information, possibly even demographics , ... )
Hence on one hand, a political aspect of making such information accessible,
and on the other, technical solutions, to enable layering of information layers on maps,
and finally uniform resource identifiers ( URI ) which can be used and connected to profiles, or as links on blogs and micro-blogging tools,
as to further enable emergent collaboration ?
Does any of you work on this,
or does any of you know of some answers going in this direction ?
Does any of you use such tools ?
I do understand this may be a booming field.
I remember watching this video :
Perhaps I missed some mails on this list that mentioned such ideas,
as I notice the title of this list is
"p2p-urbanism-world-atlas"
Thanks!
Dante