Geolocation, also called geotagging, is the practice of associating a digital resource with a physical location. A photographer, for example, might include the longitude and latitude coordinates for where a picture was taken, allowing others to pinpoint that location on a map.
The 7 Things You Should Know About Geolocation, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative’s (ELI) latest brief in the monthly series, examines how geolocation is increasingly being applied to infrastructure components and end-user devices for the purpose of knowing where people are. This additional layer of location data can make resources much more useful to a broad range of users.
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