tellmewhere : soon Wired ?

In the latest edition of Wired magazine, an article was dedicated to the rise of the hyperlocal web: “The whole Earth catalogued: how Google Maps is changing the way we see the world”. The first part of the article focuses on Google Maps, and the second part on general hyperlocal web. The authors explain how major the change stirred up by mixing wiki technology with mapmaking is: “Today the power still lies in the hands of the mapmakers. The only difference is that we’re all mapmakers now, which means geography has entered the complex freefor- all of the information age, where ever-more-sophisticated technology is better able to reflect the world’s rich, chaotic complexity”. This is obviously the wide and worthwhile ambition of web 2.0: democratize technology and enable everyone to share their knowledge…