I’ve been working on new stuff for our earth application. Tweaked how the RSS reading works and finally got some Flickr integration happening. It is all still very early, but I’m pretty happy with how things are falling together. I find it pretty fun to explore the data in this way, which was very much the point. You can find the update here: http://darkwindmedia.com/blog/2009/08/28/geo-tagging-the-planet-now-with-flickr/

[EDIT] Hey guys, just wanted to throw this update in here. I captured some video of the application running so you could see it as more than just some screenshots. Anyone have any ideas on other geo-tagged data we can throw into this thing? I’d love to pack it with different kinds of data and just put in some robust filters. We’ll continue to refine how the current data is visualized, but let me know if you get any ideas. Critiques welcome (on anything: interface, functionality, etc.)

I don’t often cross-post, but I felt like this sort of stuff would be interesting to you Juicers. A lot of our little demos at Darkwind Media have been very small, just tech demos, or related to some obscure topics. This time, I think we have something that you might like.

The application does geolocation on data gathered from the net. It then plots it on a 3D explorable, interactive globe. Here’s the post on our blog: http://darkwindmedia.com/blog/2009/08/26/geolocation-in-3d/

We have regular HTML pages and RSS feeds able to be visualized so far. However, we feel like this is just the tip of the iceberg. There’s so much more data out there that can be viewed in this way. We’ll definitely be updating this application with more capabilities. What do you guys think of this kind of visualization for data?