Mashups

I am curious to see how my star poster mashup will look when published.

I looked at London: a life in Google images. It is arranged geographically and historically. You can click on different periods and see the "map pins" corresponding to each, and by clicking on a map pin can see an image depicting that period. For example, the pre-18th century heading had a link to a 16th century map. The three different views - satellite, map and hybrid (with place names) make it easy to see where a particular link is on the map now. I think this is a very effective use of a mashup.


The US Library Finder mapping tool makes it easy to see where libraries are. You can search by place name as well as postcode - I would have trouble with postcodes as I don't know them. A link to a similar mapping tool could be useful on a public library website in Australia, especially if the library has branches. (My library is on a network with 4 other council libraries, some of which have branches -- users could find this useful.) Perhaps the "homepage" of the mapping tool could default to the library whose website the user is looking at, if it was like the US one and you could search for any library in Australia on it. (This might cost money to set up -- a project for the National or State libraries, perhaps?)

Voicethreads could be a useful tool for a local history collection. Staff or clients could add their recollections of a place or digital object.