Captain Geowiki flies off into the sunset

“Museum of Zoology: The most startling thing about this museum is its levitating Finback Whale, which looms over the surrounding buildings in a strangely out-of-place way.”

I’ve just not renewed the hosting for geowiki.co.uk (well, strictly speaking I’ve not renewed the hosting for geowiki.co.uk every day for the past couple of years, but you know what I mean). So there endeth possibly the first GPS mapping site, sadly neglected since 2004ish, with comedy flat-file storage but a background in a lovely shade of blue. (I’m keeping the domains, of course. ‘geowiki’ is too cool a name to let go.)

“this is an idea that is similar to one i have beenworking on in my mind”

I still sometimes wonder about a site that would document “what’s it like?” rather than “what’s there?”. Probably, in fact, not a classical wiki: every time you replace others’ content with your own, the view becomes a little narrower. (Must. Not. Mention. Wikipedia.) But, you know, hours in the day and all that.

As a general rule, every time I read some Debord I get seized with the urge to do something psychogeographical on the web.

“I just noticed Geowiki, which is about the only way I’d like interactive maps to work on Wikitravel.”

Curiously my GPS tracks are still saved in ~/Geowiki/Tracks/GPX/ . Intermittently I paste them onto a big Illustrator file called GMoE – Geowiki Map of Everywhere. Where “everywhere” means “the UK”. National Grid references are so much easier to work with.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to find that Levitating Finback Whale.