remarkableohio

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:

http://www.flickr.com/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

http://www.remarkableohio.org

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

http://www.flickr.com/map

and search for “remarkableohio” and see every marker in the system on one map.

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4 Responses to “remarkableohio”

  1. John Rappold Says:
    March 2nd, 2007 at 4:15 pm

    Great project, Alvin. Weather permitting, I’ll cross the border into Ohio over the weekend and try to grab a few markers in Lawrence and Scioto counties.

  2. Alvin’s Educational Technology Blog » Flickr/RemarkableOhio hits 100 Says:
    July 10th, 2007 at 5:42 pm

    [...] I added the 100th picture tagged “remarkableohio” to the map. There are a few duplicates and some places have markers with different [...]

  3. Remarkable Ohio « Midnight Musings Says:
    September 4th, 2007 at 6:14 am

    [...] people’s blogs. One of my favorites blogs is Alvin Trusty’s. Back in March 2007, he wrote about his new interest in geo-tagging and a project he started to document all the historical [...]

  4. Remarkable Ohio « Sunny Claytor Says:
    April 13th, 2009 at 11:06 pm

    [...] For more information on the project visit: http://www.trustyetc.com/trustyblog/2007/03/01/remarkableohio [...]

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