Fotopedia Heritage: UNESCO sites in a never-ending iPad photo book

August 12, 2010 By 2 Comments

Here is a wonderful idea from the creators of Fotopedia to aggregate high quality images of UNESCO-protected sites around the world on an Apple iPad app.

Fotopedia Heritage is the latest part of a wider project to collect photography from web users under Creative Commons, but this time curated around a single theme – the 911 heritage sites around the world protected and under the auspices of the United Nations.

The app is actually quite simple – a continual run through of around 20,000 images of UNESCO sites, each linked to relevant Wikipedia content and maps.

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The photography is inevitably stunning and the information included easily means the app is – probably without even trying – one of the best travel guides currently available.

And it’s free.

Here is a long but extremely interesting interview with Fotopedia founder Jean-Marie Hullot, a former Apple and NeXT Software senior engineer, conducted by Robert Scoble. Worth a watch…

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjm3JvnzeI8

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