With Twitter’s opening of their location API to developers there’s going to be a ton of third party apps that will enable Twitter users to share location-aware information via their Twitter accounts. This isn’t to say that you’ll now be able to geo-locate your tweets as that functionality has been enabled for some time now by a number of apps – think Brightkite, foursquare, Schmap and many others… however, what it does mean is that many other applications will be providing users with the ability to geotag their tweets and provide geo information enabling cool third party functionality. Read on as we look at a number of cool, geo-aware, social media apps including: brightkite, GoWalls, waze, Schmap, Loopt, Flook and others – See the full article here
GIS, Maps, Geo and Location Technology by @gletham
