{"id":1966,"date":"2009-07-23T20:26:54","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T19:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2009\/07\/23\/wisdom-of-crowds-not\/"},"modified":"2009-07-23T20:26:54","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T19:26:54","slug":"wisdom-of-crowds-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=1966","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom of crowds &#8211; not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh dear another great idea poorly executed.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 186px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/A-VC-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 5px; max-width: 800px;\" title=\"AVC posts\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/A-VC-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">AVC posts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avc.com\/\">Freds blog<\/a> I noticed he had a cunning map in his sidebar showing his posts. Clicking on it takes you to outside.in. Of cause I signed up added the widget then tried adding my locations. Total failure its only UScentric \ud83d\ude41 (even though it has an Indian domain!).<\/p>\n<p>I emailed them but they don&#8217;t understand the fundamental problem of folks who travel and want to geotag their posts.<\/p>\n<table class=\"cf gJ\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"gF gK\">\n<table class=\"cf ix\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div class=\"iw\"><span class=\"ik\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"upi\" class=\"de QrVm3d\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/images\/cleardot.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"16px\" height=\"16px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"gD\" style=\"color: #790619;\"><small><em><span>&#8220;Chrysanthe Tenentes<\/span><\/em><\/small><span class=\"g2\"> <\/span><\/h3>\n<p><small><em><span class=\"hb\"> <\/span><\/em><\/small><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"gH\">\n<div class=\"gK\"><small><em><span class=\"iD\">show details<\/span> <span id=\":148\" class=\"g3\" title=\"23 July 2009 19:57\">19:57 (26 minutes ago)<\/span><\/em> <\/small><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"gH\">\n<div class=\"h2\">\n<table id=\":146\" class=\"cf h3\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"cTzXV hC hy\"><small><em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"hB\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/images\/cleardot.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<td class=\"cTzXV hy\">\n<div class=\"hE\"><small><em>Reply<\/em><\/small><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td class=\"hy\"><small><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<td class=\"wtnCQd hz hy\"><small><em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"hA\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/images\/cleardot.gif\" alt=\"Follow up message\" \/><\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><small><em>We currently only cover the US, though we do plan to expand internationally (the UK is top on the list!) soon. Keep up to date with our blog:<\/em><\/small>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why oh why cannot I edit my own map anywhere in the world?<\/p>\n<p>Its like that other application with promise Brightkite which suffers the same problem, total inabilty to edit the underlying data. How frustrating<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/outside.in-%C2%B7-GeoToolkit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 55px 5px;\" title=\"Add a place - USA only!\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/outside.in-%C2%B7-GeoToolkit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Add a place - USA only!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh dear another great idea poorly executed. Visiting Freds blog I noticed he had a cunning map in his sidebar showing his posts. Clicking on it takes you to outside.in. Of cause I signed up added the widget then tried adding my locations. Total failure its only UScentric \ud83d\ude41 (even though it has an Indian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[99,294],"class_list":["post-1966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-brightkite","tag-outside-in"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}