Hot on the heels of Google, Microsoft have released their tech preview of using Flickr photos with maps. Only using just Creative Commons photos, so feels a little more Opt-In. More info here: Spatial Search: The Next Frontier I think John Allspaw sums it up pretty well with … “Fuck. Easily the coolest shit I [...]
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“… at an airport the individual is defined, not by the tangible ground mortgaged into his soul for the next 40 years, but the indeterminate flicker of flight numbers trembling on an annunciator screen. We are no longer citizens with civic obligations, but passengers for whom all destinations are theoretically open, our lightness of baggage [...]
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I’ve just made a post over at the Flickr Code Blog: Panda Tuesday; The History of the Panda, New APIs, Explore and You about the new Panda APIs, mainly flickr.panda.getPhotos. Why, you may ask, is this of interest to your general geoblogger? Well, when you call the flickr.panda.getPhotos method you pass in the name of [...]
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It’s a little odd posting over there but now that Flickr does have a Dev Blog, it kinda makes sense to mostly post Flickr related geo-stuff there. And more comment here, even if I’m still stuck with an utterly dorky theme. Anyway, recently I made a few posts about our new “corrections” stuff, you can [...]
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Ok, so everyone’s playing with the new iPhone 2.0 software, and taking photos, and embedding the location information into the EXIF. Well early adopters in San Francisco are anyway, and here’s an interesting thing about San Francisco is that it’s at the same latitude as a bit of the Yellow Sea, just off the coast [...]
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By some strange quirk today I came across this great way to, well, look around photos taken at a single location … … by using Creative Commons photos from Flickr. Although I’m sure any repository of geotagged photos would do. Far more information in the creators blog post over here http://openphotovr.jottit.com/re_panoramio. This screen shot taken [...]
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Roll up, roll up, roll up, get your WoE IDs here … http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/ … a jolly nice step in the right direction. Yahoo have opened up their geo database (which is pretty good btw) which is far more awesome than I’m going to make it sound in this blog post. I already did a little [...]
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… you know officially! Before today we were like totally niche, but now that Microsoft has declared “Geotagging Goes Mainstream” I guess we’re out in the spotlight now. Next thing you know we’ll have major newspapers writing articles about geotagging and everything! All kidding aside this looks like a pretty good tool. I say looks [...]
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You know, just to cover all bases :) [update: Aaron talks about a similar Flickr/Dopplr/FireEagle dance over here] Tonight twitter released their next batch of API improvements, of course the one that caught my eye was … “[NEW] /account/update_location.[xml|json] – sets the location for the authenticated user to the string passed in a “location” parameter. [...]
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So, yay, Flickr released Video today. One of the things I really like about this is that they get geotagged in just the same way, you drag them onto the map, or you use external tools that call the Flickr API to set location … flickr.photos.geo.setLocation … just as you did before. The thing it [...]
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