The geography education department have been working with GPS-enabled mobile phones for a while now, using the packaged educational software. One of the most important things about wildknowledge, that made is useful for geography education was the ability to geotag images.
Geotagging is adding geographical data to an object, for example marking where a photo was taken. By geotagging photos we can plot them on a map and build up a picture of where all the photos were taken.
Geotagging also works with other services, like Twitter, so show where users are broadcasting from, and this presents us with a whole host of possibilities.
The Geography department and the e-learning team are looking at ways to utilise flickr's geotagging in education. This project is looking to use flickr's native geotagging ability to recreate functions that may be prohibitively expensive for many schools.
This project is still in it's formative stages at present. Watch this post for further developments
UPDATE - 26 November 2009
Been looking at imapflickr - this is a website that makes customised google maps from geotagged information on flickr. This could be useful
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