After a few sessions on the brand new concept of Geotopia, a developer built a Geotopia prototype by using Microsoft Expression Blend. This development tool can help you to create Silverlight or Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications quickly and helps you prototype or demonstrate initial versions of your product.
See the following screenshot to get an impression of the very first prototype of the Geotopia canvas:
As you can see on the canvas, messages are decorated with a so-called pushpin. In order to be able to filter messages and comments, layering will be added to the solution. Users need to be able to turn layers on and off, grouped by friends, by region, or by interests. The next prototype will contain these concepts. Ideally, only pushpins are shown on the map to get a plain canvas. Hovering over a pushpin will display the comments, photo, video, or other content.