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Re: WWP enhancements for 07
          Carl von Einem 2006-Oct-18 22:33:00
          
          New viewing technology will only lead to incompatibility with a lot of 
panos we have now. With such a large number of contributions (exploring 
special techniques within the existing viewer) from different people I 
see no chance to move to a different viewer. One more viewer to choose 
from will cause frustrated guests.
I'd like to have all (and I think of every event) panos with good 
keywords. Volunteers could tag several contributions each with keywords 
from a set that is set up in advance, like landscape (forest, mountain, 
desert,...), traffic (trains, cars, ferries, aircraft,...), art (comic, 
dream, fantasy,...). Also another two or three sets of keywords: 
technique (by camera, lens type, fov, poleshots, macro, film/digital), 
date/time, coordinates.
So we explore panos by time / technique / part of the world (ok, we have 
the map for that), and are there panos shot at the same time?
Imagine a pano and (for all events) not only one button for the next 
pano (alphabetical) but also Next (with this type of camera), Next 
(coordinates), Random...
I'd also love to have a world map with one or two steps more inside a 
part of the world. We now have such a big number of panos in several 
spots of the world. Google Earth is great but I'd like to zoom in more 
inside the worldwidepanorama!
Posted by: "Roger Howard"
> 
> A few items that have repeatedly come to mind when exploring WWP:
> 
> 1) A sense of communications 
yes
> 2) Some form of search
great
> 3) To go along with search, some form of extended metadata support;
> perhaps a freetagging solution to allow end users to contribute to the
> searchability of each page/object.
interesting
> 4) Integration with outside services; trackbacks (so we can see who is
> saying what about the site) and de.licio.us come to mind.
ok
> 5) Protected contact forms, to make it easy for the audience to
> communicate directly with the content creator(s) without having to post
> email addresses in plaintext on the Web
cool!
> This is fun  :) 
fun is most important :-)