Geographic Traceroute … and more GeoSpacial applications …
As I continue to think about the various applications that I want for my wearable computing, and navigating in physical space, I like it when I find more and more geographic location services. I saw this post yesterday:

Geographical Traceroute 0.0.4 (Default). A geographical traceroute utility for X. [freshmeat.net]

What’s really nice about this is that they are drawing from a netgeo database maintained by CAIDA. This application starts to explore the concept of distributed location servers, and the ability to query them for different types of resources. In this case, the netgeo servers are oriented towards the location of routers, and internet infrastructure. I can see where in the near future there will be more and more of these servers popping up around the Internet that will provide look-ups of almost any type of physical world resouce and it’s longitude and latitude.