“Mapufacture provides up-to-date, personalized geographically relevant information. Find interesting feeds from blogs, photos, weather, friends, and activities. Build maps of the places you care about. Share these maps and use them on the go. Search for interesting things around the world.”
“Welcome to the Mapufacture help center. Where do you want to go today? No, really, do you want to go to New York, or perhaps Abu Dhabi, or even Wellington. Wherever you live, or want to go, Mapufacture can help you find out what’s interesting.”
So you register for a Mapufacture account and start adding RSS feeds (preferably, specifically and ideally, geotagged feeds - voila! there they are on the map!
What does any of this have to with location scouting you might ask? - well, you could use Mapufacture to manage a location scouting project, such as perhaps setting up a Wordpress site or a site using another CMS to manage your list(s) of locations (make a post for each location(?) to generate the feed - you should geotag each post (GeoPress Plugin could work well for this) or simply add the longitude / latitude or the GPS data for each location - btw Flickr photos can be be geotagged.
Once you have created your map, you can embed it on your site OR (this is fun) use the KML file url Mapufacture generates for your map and plug it into a Google Maps search. If you have a Google Maps account you can also get weather and traffic reports as well as use many other valuable Google Maps tools.
So now you have a relatively easy way to present a map with placemarks containing all the locations and data you want to share with the rest of the production team and / or clients about each location and all the locations as a group, perhaps with regard to where each is located in relation to each other (logistics)… Many calendar resources provide feeds as well so could be utilized for scheduling too :-).
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