Waymarking

At a planning meeting this week, Dick Diener showed us a new Web 2.0 technology called waymarking. It is a form of digital mapping. This technology allows you to pinpoint a location using latitude and longitude and add information about it digitally. They can contain text, images, hyperlinks and comments from other visitors about the place and information can be added by others. It also shows your site on a map. You can see your spot on a regular map, a satellite map or a hybrid. It also includes an option for forums and blogs centered around a specific waymark. Waymarks are peer reviewed.

There are various ways to search and explore Waymarks. For example waymarks are sorted into categories and users can search via the waymark directory. I typed in my zipcode to find waymarks in my home city.

Dick is using waymarks in a class project in which his middle school students are researching World War II Memorials in their county.