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Bettina Minder on 24 Aug 10Diskussion Museum Computer Group: User generated / crowd-sourced geotagging? I'll just give one practical example.. Take an image such as one of the Normandy landings from the Imperial War Museum - http://bit.ly/cIr4zG. The description tells us it was taken in Villers-Bocage. I could then (or perhaps even an automated tool could) generate tags that put it in that locality. And then someone who lives or visits there should be able to track it down pretty easily. In fact people have done such things - see http://virtualfunzone.com/normandy-1944-then-and-now.html - but for all their effort, without that relatively small step that such a tool would have facilitated nothing has gone back to the original images. Without that an opportunity of providing an enhanced experience, whether through a web tool like HistoryPin or via a mobile based AR app, is lost.