The Guardian has today launched Open Platform with the hope of freeing up their data and allowing users to build other tools and services using Guardian content.
Of particular interest is the work on a crowd-sourced solution to geo-tagging.
“Stamen and OpenStreetMap developed a service that they hope will encourage Guardian readers to “geo-tag” the newspaper’s content, positioning every article, video and picture on a map so users can find news, commentary, video and other content related to their area.
The Guardian experimented with geo-location during last year’s US presidential election, and hopes the project will help add location information to its vast archive of content.”
