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The recently released Google Data APIs (”a new protocol based on Atom 1.0 and RSS 2.0″) feature a couple of interesting geolocative elements I just learned about through Stefan Geens’ excellent Ogle Earth blog. These include a tag for latitude, longitude and elevation, one for a place such as an event location, and one for a postal address. These are the kind of tools we need for creating 3pointD apps — i.e., apps that harness the collaborative power of Web 2.0, but which take the “placeness” of both virtual worlds and the world around us into account.

Geens and I are apparently thinking in the same direction (pardon the pun), as he’s posted a great RFM (Request For Mashup) on Ogle Earth, asking for something that would map data from Google Calendar or “any iCal/RSS/Atom calendar feed” into Google Earth. Many more possibilities abound. Me, I’d like to see a powerful 2.0-style back end for finding, tagging, sharing and subscribing to place data, a kind of social software tool for place. I’m sure there are any number of other great ideas kicking around out there. Bring ‘em on.