Quakr Taggr Tool : geo:lat, geo:long, geo:dir

I'm working on a tool create geo⁺ metadata, post-hoc.

Version 0.1 of QuakrTaggr supports:

* latitude + longitude
* direction (compass)

By "⁺" I mean I want geo:lat/geo:long plus direction, tilt, altitude, etc - ideally, the Quakr 7D set. By "post hoc", I mean a tool like like Flickr Map / GmIF which you use when you get home, rather than an attachment for your camera.

I am resorting to post-hoc metadata capture over wielding a tiltometer because:
1. My GPS is insufficiently accurate in towns.
2. Many of the bits of the tiltometer have fallen off, leaving me with .. well, a sticky camera..

Version 0.1 is based on GMaps API (of course). I had a hard time geocoding UK postcodes - big up to tomanthony. Plans for Version 0.2: greasemonkey altitude (earthtools?)

http://taggr.quakr.co.uk/

Quakr XTech Paper

is in! Following a weeks worth of evening edits, the fully written up and spell-checked paper was uploaded Thursday last week. A whole 12 hours before the deadline. We'll be putting a link up somewhere with a PDF version for those of you that like reading.

Meanwhile development doesn't stop just cause the "big" presentation is coming soon and we've been out taking photo's of Cowley Road, Oxford; Cowley Road, and it's Pubs.

related or relevant, 04/07

- Microsoft starts doing the UK
here

- Related research published November 06 by HP Labs
here

- Zonetag - related tech on it's way through the pipeline?
here

- ICBM Address info
here

-- more --

- how big is your GPS module?
here

- a self contained tripe axis accelerometer
here

- a uk source of the bits
here

- where do all those maps come from anyway?
here

- a version alpha taggr
here

- release alpha 0.22 viewr - now with draggy maps
here

-- more --

- the quakr paper
here

- mologogo - mobile gps logging, recently tied to twitter
here

-- more --

- Google Earth + American Institute of Architects = layer of americas favourite buildings and layer for community building details
here

- Ox Geek Night - Dave talks [mp4 file]
here

-- more --

- possible duplicate linkage, but tilt compensated compass - only $270!
here