Quakr hunted down by Where 2.0, California

"Phew!", we thought.

We had made it through XTech fine and there was some genuine interest in Quakr.

"Onwards and upwards", we thought.

Then Brady Forrest at O'Reilly got in touch out of the blue to say this:


> Howdy,
>
> I am the Chair for O'Reilly's Where 2.0 conference
> http://conferences.oreilly.com/where
>
> I just found your XTech slides. Awesome! Are you
> available to speak in San Jose, CA next Wednesday
> morning?
>
> Contact me immediately as I have been holding back
> this final spot for an awesome project like Quakr,
> but can't hold it for long.
>

How could we resist?

And so I'm pleased to announce that Peter will be flying out to San Jose, California to tell O'Reilly's Where 2.0 conference all about Quakr and to shake Brady's hand.

The schedule looks excellent, and includes Schuyler Erle who gave us some excellent advice at XTech and a welcome reminder that we should really ditch the Google Maps tiles in favour of OpenStreetMap.

The sesssion on 3D Data: Platforms for Real World Virtual World Interaction looks spectacularly relevant.

So, if you're at the conference, come and say "hi!". And on Wednesday morning (30th May) go and see Peter show you what Quakr is all about.

Quakr at XTech

.. looking a bit nervous/confused/specky/strangely smug, but relieved that our XTech talk went really well - loads of good feedback and ideas from the audience.

Slides from our Presentation

Image courtesy of mmmmrob under CC at-nc-sa.

Quakr Sightseeing

Since I've installed our greasemonkey extensions, I've been enjoying wandering flickr and googlemaps, sightseeing.

This is a thread to capture great quakr sightseeing spots - additions are very welcome, here are my starters:

A Crossroads in Utrecht:

http://www.quakr.co.uk/viewr/index.html?lon=5.1257&alt=71&lat=52.1089&tag=&camx=-6&camy=5&camz=-7

Pub beside the road:

http://www.quakr.co.uk/viewr/index.html?lon=-1.2673&alt=71&lat=51.7523&tag=&camx=-2&camy=4&camz=16

Cows across the river:

http://www.quakr.co.uk/viewr/index.html?lon=-1.3305&alt=71&lat=51.7858&tag=&camx=0&camy=4&camz=-19

Greasemonkey scripts make Quakr simple

Today, due to popular demand, Quakr launch 2 Greasemonkey extensions for Firefox to make visiting the Quakr World easier.

The flickr script enhances your experience of flickr by inserting a link to Quakr whenever you browse to a geotagged photo.

The Google Maps script allows you to navigate around in Google Maps and then jump straight to that location within Quakr. This means that you can search Google Maps for something like Tower Bridge, London and then click straight through from there to view the same scene in Quakr.

It's really easy to set up. The instructions and scripts are on the Quakr website, and if you are too eager to go and read those, the scripts are here:

Flickr to Quakr

Google Maps to Quakr

We would love to hear your feedback:
* do these scripts do what you want?
* are there any other Greasemonkey scripts you would like written?
* have you written any yourself?
* do you also find it strange that your CV could ever contain a word like 'Greasemonkey' and that it might actually enhance your job prospects?

Have fun.

related or relevant, 05/07

- 3D display in sat nav device -- coming soon?
here

- the paople doing the mapping - tele atlas
here

- soon to be Quakr - hosting 1-2-3
here

- who links 2 me vs who links to me?
Who links to my website? vs Who links to me?

- Yahoo pictures => Flickr
here

-- more --

- home made GPS camera recording device
here

- new linkage for viewr and taggr
here and here

-- more --

- Google starts a new map related blog.
here

-- more --

- Google thinks about soundscapes.
here

- Google signs up a car to map the world.
here

-- more -- (from where2.0, san jose, may 2007)

- Google release Street View
here

- The quakr project presented...
here
here
here
here
here
here
here

--end day 1, begin day 2

- Google buy Panoramio
here

- The quakr project presented...
"Ed Parsons is the Geospatial Technologist of Google."
here
here
here

- GeoVEctor - they've got a camera with a compass
here

- Immersive Media - amazing 3d video with something which knows which way is up!
here

- Garmin release developer API - should we stick the viewr on your garmin?
here

- DASH - a wifi enabled gps device for the car - with images from flickr!
here

- Planet9 release Raygun - X3D world Based on BitManagement browser plugin
here

- Open Street Map conference - in manchester
here