Geo-Tagging is an area of active research and development, as well as an increasing number of product announcements. The latest is nTerracon with their iGeo service. This will geo-tag documents and website content, with the option to display the results in Google Maps or Bing Maps. Services come in multiple levels ranging from the free community edition for small, low traffic websites; through to a number of commercial versions. Demonstrations include a book that you can leaf through, clicking on highlighted geo-tagged locations to see them on a map. Here is the press release:

SEATTLE, Washington. Seattle-based nTerraCon, LLC, has launched iGeo^TM, a new product that geo-enriches online text enabling website visitors to fly-into any location on a web page using Google Earth^TM or Bing Maps^TM . A free Community edition gives low-traffic website owners the power to add geo-context to their sites. nTerraCon's Consumer Edition of iGeo^TM allows larger customers, with greater traffic, to offer "on-the-fly" geo-tagging along with the embedding of text, images, audio, or video, text to create rich, immersive experiences for their users.

nTerraCon co-founder, Clyde Ford, the software developer and consultant who created iGeo^TM, is also an award-winning author of psychological thrillers. The idea for iGeo^TM came from Ford's efforts to reach out to new readers more enamored with the world of the Web, than the world between the covers of a book. He teamed with former Microsoft Sr. Product Manager, Lisa Swei to form nTerraCon, a company that specializes in geo-enriching documents and text. Ford and Swei believe that geo-enriched content on the Internet and other media bridges the gap between traditional forms of learning and decision-making based on printed material and new forms based on digital technologies.

iGeo^TM has wide applicability in fields such as education, book publishing and the news media. nTerraCon's website features demonstrations of iGeo^TM geo-enriching lesson plans, chapters from a book, sections of a newspaper, a travel company site, public service documents, wildlife studies, even a report on the 1985 Tour de France that boasts embedded video of various stages of the race.

The Community and Consumer Editions are just two of several entries that nTerraCon plans in its iGeo^TM product line.

For further information, see the nTerracon website at http://www.nterracon.com.