The planning group has had its third and probably its final meeting!
Last year I compiled a wish list of features for the online community and this list has been a big part of our planning up to this point.
During the meeting we focused on going through all of these features. We discussed them one by one and decided if each feature should stay or be cut and if it should be in the beta launch or in phase two.
During these discussions we also got to improve some of the features and we even came up with some very good new ones!
It was very valuable to get every body’s input. We complemented each other and came up with some great ideas!
One of the big web trends today is localization. This is something we will put a lot of work into. Every photo and travel story etc will be Geo tagged i.e. it will have a tag stating its geographical location. This makes all the content searchable in some interesting ways and the content can also be visualized in some amazing ways.
Check out this example at Nokia.
We will use Google Maps for these kinds of map and localization features. Using another web service for your own purposes on your own website is usually referred to as a “mashup”. It’s also a big trend on the web. We even went so far as to discuss if the entire online community should be a mashup website using for example flickr, youtube etc. While certainly it’s possible today we decided against it.
We already have some experience with using Google Maps at VisitSweden. We just released our new updated map of Sweden section on visitsweden.com and it uses Google Maps. Check it out and tell us what you think 
I now have to put down these new ideas into a requirement specification document which is needed for the development. We’re almost there!
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