I took a nice long walk from town to campus and opened up the page for the street I was walking on and took some notes along the way. The walking pace was about right to match the typing pace to capture some detail, and I’d get more detail if I walked it again.

The key is to get the architecture of the wiki to match the architecture of the world you are mobile in; that implies following footpaths or bus routes or highways (passengers only please!). Mobile phone browsing on that phone I have is relatively slow and the screen is relatively small so it helps to be pithy.

For more on this theme, use the search facility above for Yellow Arrow and you’ll find a dozen or so posts.

QR codes as used in Japan seem like a sensibe, unobtrusive way to mark things physically in such as way as to be machine readable (with a cameraphone), putting the choice of receiving information and context on the user. This means no annoying bleeps as you walk by any tagged object or location.

Greetings and welcome to the 30th edition of the Carnival of the Mobilists!!! First off, I would like say that I’m very honored to be hosting this week. Afew announcements before we begin. Just a reminder that the Carnival has…

Platial ( http://www.platial.com ), the start up I work for, is accumulating a lot of waypoints. There’s no mobile yet, but our api is going to be published any day now.

It would be best if you could have one mobile service that combines information from geocoded wikipedia articles, Platial, and many other sources and you could tell your device what kinds of articles you’re interested in seeing.

For example, I want to take a walk around London and learn about architecture. So I tell my device to alert me whenever I’m in the vicinity of an article tagged “architecture, architect, or building.” Or I could walk around Chicago with alerts for “Frank Lloyd Wright” turned on.

Of course, I would then want the possiblity of contributing on the fly. What if a house’s location is incorrectly geocoded? I would want to send at least a flag to let the article’s author know, but better I would want to contribute and correct the article.

one of the ways to link physical objects to the virtual reality with mobile is this: http://www.semapedia.org/. To be honest I like the idea of linking “real” wiki to the physical world much more then the idea to rewrite the wiki for the map purposes. If someone now finds a way to connect Google Maps with wikipedia.org that would be something. Then all you need would be a mobile phone with GPS…