Recently this stuff turned up in Sykesville, Maryland when the town dug a foundation to move a house from one part of town to the next, which was a pretty cool feat. Anyway, the stuff ended up in the town’s Gatehouse Museum, and no one knows really what it is. Imagine if it had been geotagged?
What geotagging does is somehow attach identification data like latitude and longitude coordinates, or even place names, to an object. Dutch design studio Atelier NL has taken the idea and geotagged ceramics so people can get the location of the farm that provided the clay for the pottery, making it possible, according to Inhabitat.com to “eat vegetables that were grown in the same soil that the bowl is made from.”
Probably not something most Maryland residents really care to do, although it’s a cool idea, but we would just like to know what these things dug up out of the soil in downtown Sykesville are and who made them. Unfortunately, they predate the days of geotagging. Too bad. Who knows what information they might have imparted?
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