It’s been a bit of a stop-and-start past few weeks. You knows, where it’s not possible to quite get into your groove. I’ve sort of been circling around the geo-stuff, not quite able to get my teeth into it. So in the meantime I’ve been picking off general Flickr site bugs from the queue and [...]
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I is…At the Maker Faire this Sunday on the Flickr bit of the Yahoo!… 2pm to 4pm is my shift, although I’ll be there someplace with Mrs Catt and the Kittens taking in the sites beforehand.
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The new tiles set has been working for us in our dev environment for a while now so I’m used to seeing them…. I don’t think anywhere that didn’t have mapping data before has it now, i.e. Tokyo is still incredibly sparse, just that the maps have been improved somewhat.
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Via the API you could not only find “flickr:user=revdancatt”, but also wildcards, I can find all photos tagged with a “flickr:user=”, or any namespace that happens to have “*:user=revdancatt” or even anything that points to “*.*=revdancatt” and other various combinations.They are called “Machine Tags” because we expect them to generally be added by automated systems and later sucked up and processed by machines.Example: I have my psychotic photo taking Spime out in the wild…. Dishes could have other classification types layered over the top, allowing people to find Dishes to put together into a Meal.By stepping back through the values held in the tags it’d be possible to calculate the total calorific value of the meal, without having to store that anyplace, adjusting the amount of an Ingredient in a Dish would alter the final value.Anyway, the above example may not be that exciting, but does illustrate how 3rd party developers have more power to do stuff.
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Anyone who’s done a couple of geocaches will know what I mean, I dug around in the damp undergrowth to find a tupperware box full of slightly rusty hairclips, 4 hair bands, a couple of plastic keyrings, some germ riddled mini soft toy and a soggy ‘calling card’ from ‘Five go Mad in Dorset and Timmy to Dog – Bagged this Cache’…. Some time after that, there’ll be a handful of ‘Here be Dragons’ unmapped areas, and as we know, people will fall over themselves to be the first to trudge down some backwater lane, in the rain, on a Sunday, preferably with a pub at the end.
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There’s been much talk recently about how flickr could improve the display and number of photos(dots) on the map. Most of which boils down to server side clustering. But what’s the best way to make clusters? How should we group photos, and which photo best represents that cluster. Luckily for us those same smart folks [...]
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