Australian start-up VisualPin allows users to “geocode” their videos by adding a Google Map to each different location in a video, with the map appearing to the side of the video. Here’s one of the best examples on the site.
To be honest, I find the map somewhat distracting from watching the video but I think it could be useful when it comes to documenting travel, news or current events. The technology creates a virtual-location table of contents, allowing the user to click on a marked location to find the corresponding video content.
This appears to be a variation of existing technology that embeds YouTube videos in Google Maps listings. Also Google Maps mashups became particularly useful for news media sites during the inauguration; CNN, Oprah.com and WashingtonPost.com all featured geocoded mashup videos from inaugural events in Washington D.C.
Perhaps NBC’s Today show could use this technology for its next Where in the World is Matt Lauer series.
Great, now can draw the exact area where I am.
the idea is good. but, I would like to provide some feedbacks..
when the location is panned from one place to another, the zoom level should be adjusted so that both the locations are visible (zoom out), pan to the next location, and then zoom in to that location.. right now, its very difficult for people to visualize locations, as the panning is very fast..
when there are lot of places, the whole map will be full of markers.. I think, ranks should be assigned to markers, for their visibility, at a specific zoom level…
Congrats on getting on TC! I can see how this can be useful however, the feature set is very close to already existing functionality of youtube and Google. Anyhow, this is a cool idea and it would be great to somehow encode geo-coordinates into the video itself.
instead the marker should be shown in a different color .. when the location shown in the vid corresponds to the marker..
n the user can click on the marker to view the location ..
Morning all
Thanks for the feedback. It is definintely Beta but we are working hard on the next release in a month or so.
- Set your own zoom levels for each pin.
- Set custom pin templates (make it look like you want to)
- Location clickable list next to video so you can jump to a video section by locaiton.
We can encode the locaiton on the audio track of a video – just need to package it nicely (We do this for B2B customers now).
Thank you for the comments. It is much appreciated to get some really good ideas to extend this to be more useful.
nice post
I want a geocode RSS tracker, integrated with Google Maps…
Cool one!
Pretty cool!… Have you checked out http://imapweather.com ? It’s set to roll out some really cool video and photo features (among others) tied to a Google map. Beta invites are going out soon so sign up on there email list to get one.
Cool site. I can definitely see this being useful in some real estate applications such as community videos or travel sites with tours of an island.
I created a site with this technology, utilizing drag and drop features about 2.5 years ago. Not much of a programmer, but you are all welcome to check it out – http://www.ourglobes.com/
you all have good ideas, and understand the value of this technology. really, the masterminds who can truly exploit google maps’ powers will create a true timeline/virtual geography of our planet, and the defined connections between people.
Also check-out http://www.vidmap.de/lang/en. Vidmap.de is true Geo-Tagging for videos. Videos mapped on the globus and can be played side by side with a google map which synchronously shows the progress of the playing clip.