This guide shows how simple online maps can become tools for place-based interpretation, heritage tourism, volunteer coordination, and community storytelling. Using Louisiana’s Cane River region as an example, it walks through setting goals, selecting sites, adding context, and building a useful interactive tour. The central lesson is still sound: mapping works best when it does more than mark locations, helping people understand relationships among place, history, access, and story.
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Virtual and mobile tours that connect audiences with places, collections, interpretation, and cultural sites.
Michael Phillips on Creating a Sense of Place with Video iGuidez
Michael Phillips created iGuidez around a deceptively ambitious idea: use online video to convey a sense of place to people who may never physically visit it. In this conversation, he discusses building a heritage website around place-based video just as cameras were becoming ubiquitous in phones and consumer devices. The project anticipated later forms of digital tourism and mobile interpretation while revealing the practical challenges of sustaining an independent heritage platform.