Click the image for notations (i.e. narrative):
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08/09/2005 Archived Entry: "Narrating Place"
Narrating Place: Mapping the City
Click the image for notations (i.e. narrative):
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I added a comment to the Flickr image explaining what I did with the geotag. Had no idea the script would allow me to tag anyone's images, but, well, when I tried it, it worked. What of it? At geobloggers.com your image shows at Woodward & Warren Ave.
I'm with you that there's something more to this than the imagemap. It's close to imagemap, and yet the combination of features (notes with links, audience-inscribed images (and the result, the audience dissolves into actants), layers of image and text that correspond to actual-virtual, social-individual, discursively woven spaces complicates it with a whole variety of mights.
Posted by Derek @ 08/09/2005 10:52 PM EST
Well, I'm always thinking about implementation: that's cool, so how can I do it? Do I have to upload images to flickr to get that sort of behavior on my site? Do I have to use JavaScript? Most web pages just sit there; that's the appeal of this technique, and stuff like Ajax, especially for narrative: the reader pushes and pulls the story along. The page isn't flat anymore.
Anyway, the 'title' attribute behaves differently than the 'alt' or 'longdesc' attributes, which are designed strictly for accessibility. Most visual browsers render them in some way.
Posted by cbd @ 08/09/2005 10:11 PM EST
That's not annotation, that's access-based alt features.
Anyway, even if it has imagemap properties, so what? The issue, for me at least, isn't: what is this doing right now, but rather: what might this do?
The might is worth, for me, the exploration.
Posted by jeff @ 08/09/2005 01:21 PM EST
If you add TITLE attributes to an imagemap, you get "tool tip" style annotations in Firefox, and likely other browsers too.
Posted by cbd @ 08/09/2005 12:54 PM EST
Definite elements of the imagemap, but not entirely the same - notation so far a difference. Embedded links mirror the imagemap functions. But - the "map"ness of the writing interests me. I haven't yet pushed it far. Derek is over at his blog with the Google API.
Posted by jeff @ 08/09/2005 12:33 PM EST
The image map is reborn!
That's some interesting markup.
Simpkins Hall used to be a high school. I've been told my office was once the principal's office.
Posted by cbd @ 08/09/2005 11:54 AM EST
