Ebb and Flow of Melbourne Trains by Flink Labs Originally uploaded by flinklabs Because I was going to post about my new job, but got tired and found this instead. “Inspired by several visualisations showing GPS tracks of planes, taxis, and people, we have produced a visualisation showing the ebb and flow of the trains [...]
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I’ve just spent the last few days in London rushing around the place, not really having a clue where I was going. Meaning that most of the time I’d rather jump into a cab than take the tube. Well that and the heat, the Underground is hot, taxis have Air Conditioning. Also I generally don’t [...]
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Last night I was mulling over the new iPhone and 3.0OS stuff, and then Brady goes and covers most of it anyway: What the iPhone 3GS and 3.0 OS Means for Geo Devs. Really the two elements I was most interested in were the Compass for pretty much the reasons Brady (damn him!) states … [...]
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Apparently some genius “sees huge potential as more people become aware of GPS and geotagging.” Carrying on, “That mainly comes down to GPS devices in cars and mobile phones raising people’s awareness of location-based services,” he said. “It wasn’t really in people’s consciousness even a year ago. … We’re very much at the beginnings.” You [...]
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In which you wire people up to a combined Galvanic Skin Response sensor, GPS unit and data logger and send them out into the urban wilderness…. The examples in the screengrab below include peaks at “Creepy backally”, “Odeon looking at an ex girlfriend’s house” and “Saw cyclist almost get hit”.
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However I find this interesting because I’m a bit of a Garmin fan and heck I’m a bit of a API fan too.Garmin® Publishes API Library and Opens Communication Between Third Party Websites and Garmin GPS Devices, which is the usual blah blah stuff.Yet, we have the Device Communications bit, which, once the user has downloaded the Garmin Plugin allows websites to pull and push data to a connected GPS unit, see ‘ere…. The theory goes that the Garmin Plugin could pick up the geotagging from the GeoPressMT Plugin and allow the user to download the location of the blogpost to a GPS unit.The part I’m not so impressed about is the “cross-platform” part of this…”Allow visitors, who have the free cross-platform/browser Garmin Communicator plugin installed on their computer to transfer waypoint, route, track log, fitness and map data between their Garmin device and your website.”…which is cross-platform if you exclude the Mac (and linux etc.).
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[Via Engadget]: Nokia are really starting to push into this integrated GPS, phone market (and by push I kind of mean create) dropping a new S60 smartphone on us with GPS, AGPS (assisted GPS) and other wizzy phone stuff (2 megapixel camera).Don’t know if it does geotagging out of the box, but I’m starting to think of these things as low megapixel GPS cameras with phones built in.Here’s a quick list extract extracted from the do-hicky-thing thing…Key features of the Nokia 6110 Navigator include:- Fully integrated GPS Navigation with one touch Navigator key- Local map pre-installed on the memory card for immediate navigation- HSDPA for fast web browsing and downloading- WCDMA 2100 HSDPA, GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900- 2 megapixel camera with integrated flash, 4x digital zoom and panorama mode- Real-time video sharing and video calling- ~40 MB free internal memory- Support of microSD memory card up to 2 GB The Nokia 6110 Navigator phone offers a talk-time of up to 3.5 h (GSM) and 2.5 h (WCDMA), and a standby time of up to 11 days (GSM and WCDMA).Aaron, where’s ours? (always find it best to do in-office communication via RSS).
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