Image courtesy of http://www.cybergeography.org/, originally uploaded by Jimbo (Alan James Wellock).
GeoURL is very simple in theory. It is a tool created by Bjorn Hanson that uses your IP address where which your website is stored at to visualise the Internet on an actual world map. This then allows you to navigate the Internet not by subject appropriatness but physical location. It allows you to find URLs in proximity to a given location, directly linking the digital world with the physcial. It almost treats data as a unique object by giving it an 'home.' It is an idea closely linked to mine, but instead of the geographical aspect of where data is stored I am interested in the time in which data can be accessed in the virtual world compared to navigation of the physical, by combining the two.
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