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There are a lot of sites that are beginning to tie content to information. Google Earth now lets you link pictures to location as well as Wikipedia articles and more. Google Maps does a great job of tying information already on the Internet to a location, although most of it is businesses with addresses. And there are other companies starting to look into this as well.

What I haven’t seen yet is a mashup of podcasting, or audio recording, and a physical location. Podcasting currently revolves around a particular topic. So if you’re interested in war gaming, you subscribe to a podcast about war games. If you want to know about the latest happenings in tech, you turn to a podcast like Twit. But audio about a certain topic is only one way to organize data. Just as you might organize a group of pictures by what is in them (for example, cats), you might also organize them by location (all the pictures of Riverside, Utah).

The same can be done for podcasts or audio recordings. If there is somebody who is making a recording about a location in Logan, Utah, I’d be interested in learning about it because I live there. I’m planning on traveling to Milton Keynes at the end of the month and Dalian, China next year. I know nothing about either spot. So if there was audio information about these places, I’d like not to just hear it, but hear it when I’m there. I want to take that information with me.

So, long story short, I think there is an opportunity to begin to tie audio content to locations. This content might be historical facts, upcoming events, news reports, interesting facts about the area, outdoor recreation, walking tours, and more.

I currently own a GPS device, but I don’t yet have an easy way to capture and record audio “on location.” I’m going to do some research and will report my finding here in the next few days.

For more on the Geoweb, see our previous articles Geoweb & Geotags vs. Geospam & Geohacking: The Latest in So-called Web 3.0 and The Next Big Thing: Why Web 2.0 Isn’t Enough.