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Geopodcasting and Geotagged Sounds
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on Monday December 05, @10:58AM
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A discussion about Geopodcasting on the Geowanking mailing list pointed to geotagged sounds on Freesound. Sounds are mapped on Google Map. From the discussion: "Imagine if there were geopodcasts. That is, bits of audio ABOUT a
place annotated with the location OF the place. Then, when you asked
Google for trip directions, it would also give you an RSS feed of URLs
pointing to geopodcasts along the route of your trip. Then you could
suck them down to your laptop. Using a GPS receiver and the
appropriate software, it would play the audio file, timing it so that
the file stopped playing when you got to the place described."
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Slashdot discusses a short BBC article about users of Google Earth may soon be able to listen to the sounds that accompany them. Their summary: "The BBC is reporting that a Californian company has created software that can layer relevant recorded sounds over locations in Google Earth. The firm, Wild Sanctuary, has thousands of hours of recordings from all over the world. Company director Dr. Krause has spent over 40 years collecting sounds from natural and man-made habitats. '... his recordings include more than 15,000 animal noises, and sounds from a huge array of habitats, including cities, deserts, mountains and the marine environment. It is the largest library in existence of natural sound, he said. He said the idea would be to zoom-in on a particular area and then have the option to listen to the accompanying sound."
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