I like this suggestion Rob and it would certainly be great if something like this could be built. Another thought I had is that while the tag plug-in as it stands today doesn’t quite work for this, with a few changes it could be pretty close.
Here’s what I’d like to see from the tag plug-in:
- Allow tags to contain any character including spaces and commas.
- Allow searching of tags
- Over time the tags page can get busy
- Not everyone wants to ‘browse’ a site if they are looking for something more specific and search is more natural for that.
- Allow filtering, browsing and/or searching by multiple tags at the time (i.e. ‘this tag’ AND ‘that tag’)
Having a true geo-tagging plug-in is still probably best as it would be more accurate and fit for purpose, but with these features in place we’d have most of our use cases covered. Also, I think each of them provides a lot of value even outside of geo-tagging.