Mashups!

Well, this topic looks really great. I really like what I see in mashups, they seem to "leverage" the technologies by being combined. I like the "London: A life in Google Maps" mashup, which allows you to graphically search (by clicking on a map of London) for interesting tourist attractions in London, which would be really great if you just wanted to explore the city thoroughly, chunk-by-chunk; I think it would help you plan your days travelling better, by giving you a really good visual idea of where everything is in the city, as well as little pictures of each attraction, linked back to it's specific website. And of course, the benefit of that is that you can then access everything about that place, like opening times, addresses, etc. The concept would lend itself to just about any topic, especially broad topics with lots of categories. I can almost imagine the library web catalogue being "mashed up" with a "virtual bookshelf" graphic that helps people "discover" books on related topics, authors, etc (just using the ordinary authority tags in the MARC record would allow this), and I guess that is what is already happening with some library catalogue software - searching by picture in a "kids opac", for example.
I wonder if we could "mash up" our pictures in the historic local photo database. Mash them up with a Google map, and maybe some relevant scanned documents/newspaper articles, etc? Perhaps create a virtual historic walking trail around Campbelltown, with links back to the old photos from each site?

Update:
I've happily been "mashing" pictures from our Local Studies database into a Google Map - creating a virtual historic walking trail! What fun! The boss says put it onto our website, so I am very pleased. We just need to add a few more points of interest first, and then will add it to the site.

Here is the Campbelltown map in progress:

http://bit.ly/b22nuc

And here is the London map mentioned above:

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/londoninmaps/exhibition.html