tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12213495267333892392024-03-13T02:08:30.297+00:00QuakrBuilding the world, one photo at a timeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945730242182365360noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221349526733389239.post-72144495208264344242010-02-12T09:53:00.001+00:002010-02-12T09:55:29.244+00:00Quakr - done by the big boysSo, some 3 years after we started this here <a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk">Quakr thing</a>, Google Maps and MS Bing have taken our idea and 'done it'. With their respective street view bubbles and geotagged photos from flickr, Picasa and Panoramio, they have machine managed them into 'place'. Exactly as we imagined all those moons ago, only with bigger resources than we were ever able to muster in our spare time. Perhaps we should have really gone for it and quit our proper jobs and then been bought out by them thar big boys, but perhaps we've had our fun and we should focus on doing something new...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0Z3NSff3I0">Bing with street images</a>.<br /><a href="http://geobloggers.com/2010/02/08/flickr-photos-now-in-street-view/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+geobloggers+%28geobloggers%29">Geoblogger talks about Gmap's thing</a>.<br /><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=oxford,+uk&sll=47.619703,-122.348943&sspn=0.016604,0.035019&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Oxford,+United+Kingdom&ll=51.751981,-1.257648&spn=0.015143,0.035019&t=h&z=15&layer=c&cbll=51.75203,-1.257495&panoid=4Vrl0kyfNAnssUdWpOcNjA&cbp=12,258.326683,,0,-14.212541999999997&photoid=pg-zJvhx9odklvDKud4uy0jlQ">Oxford's Carfax Tower with pictures machined into place</a>.<br /><br />ps - If it doesn't kill you it makes you stronger. And if it kills you you're dead and don't care anyways. So get on with it.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945730242182365360noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221349526733389239.post-91253413488947630542009-11-16T14:30:00.003+00:002009-11-16T14:37:49.693+00:00links for 2009an uncoordinated set of links from the recent blogworld...<br /><br />A google street view bike - <a href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/08/bringing-street-view-to-attraction-near.html">here</a>.<br />Home made street view - <a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/diy-streetview-camera/0">here</a>.<br />GMaps onto android - <a href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/10/google-maps-navigation-comes-to-android.html">here</a>.<br />Semantic web dog food - <a href="http://data.semanticweb.org/conference/iswc/2009/paper/research/279/html">here</a>.<br />Semantic POI's for Mobile Phones - <a href="http://isweb.uni-koblenz.de/Research/systeme/csxPOI">here</a>.<br />A competition for Geo stuff - <a href="https://challenge.geovation.org.uk/">here</a>.<br />GMaps 'more than real-estate' - <a href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/10/more-more-more-real-estate-in-google.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FSbSV+%28Google+LatLong%29">here</a>.<br />A cool tool for 3d environment construction - <a href="http://unity3d.com/unity/">here</a>.<br />A non-town in GMaps? - <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/11/nonexistent_town_in_google_maps.html">here</a>.<br />Real Time GPS / GPS++ uses known stationary objects? - <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/11/diy_real_time_kinematic_gps.html">here</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945730242182365360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221349526733389239.post-53192578631145352942009-09-09T11:14:00.006+00:002009-09-09T12:49:05.784+00:00iPhone overtakes on FlickrThe iPhone (IMHO:rubbish) 2MP camera has overtaken all other camera's taking photos on Flickr. Reported <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/08/iphone-flickr.html">here</a>.<br /><br />Surely it must be time for us quakr-ites to make an iPhone app like <a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk/taggr">taggr</a> that does ones tagging ready for the <a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk/viewr">viewr</a>? Oooh and we should update the viewr so it works and works in the iPhone's safari and oh dear I forgot we don't have any money or time or energy.<br /><br />Maybe in a months time.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945730242182365360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221349526733389239.post-77621373659732971102009-08-06T11:14:00.003+00:002009-08-06T11:19:51.101+00:00google does us overYour pictures and views thereof : <a href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/07/zoom-photo-navigation-in-street-view.html">http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/07/zoom-photo-navigation-in-street-view.html</a><br /><br />Timeline : <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOR0fPTx-os">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOR0fPTx-os</a><br />Zoom, Tilt, Rotate : <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3ytS7fHJf0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3ytS7fHJf0</a><br /><br />Actually, it's not quite all dead for us... we're still in a different focus space from Google - they show maps with the occasional photo, we want(ed) to show photo's with the occasional map tile for context.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945730242182365360noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221349526733389239.post-88430052468363893342008-04-29T08:49:00.004+00:002008-04-29T11:38:30.092+00:00A year ago and XTech '08A year ago, Peter <a href="http://quakr.blogspot.com/2007/06/whats-this.html">talked on behalf of Quakr</a> at <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/where2007/view/e_sess/14645">O'Reilly Where 2.0 conference</a> in San Jose, California. Some pictures were taken, and we talked about it here. The talk has now appeared on four sites as an Audio file:<br /><a href="http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3314.html">1) itc</a> (check out that angry face!)<br /><a href="http://earideas.com/earideas/explore/show/45544/Peter+Arbuthnott+-+Quakr:+Building+the+World+One+Photo+at+a+Time">2) earideas</a><br /><a href="http://www.podfeed.net/episode/Peter+Arbuthnott+-+Quakr+Building+the+World+One+Photo+at+a+Time/1179175">3) podfeed</a><br /><a href="http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/peter-arbuthnott-quakr-building-the-world-one-photo-at-a-time/8647867/">4) mefeedia</a><br /><br />We're kind of expecting it to be in video format sometime, but we'll see.<br /><br />We've all got too busy in our normal lives, or broken our leg, or doing too much generally so we are NOT going to be attending <a href="http://2008.xtech.org">XTech</a> this year - after being <a href="http://quakr.blogspot.com/2008/03/in-to-xtech-2008.html">accepted</a>. It's a pisser, but sometimes it happens that way.<br /><br />We haven't done very much to the <a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk/viewr">Viewr</a> or the <a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk/taggr">Taggr</a> in recent months, and do not have any kind of list of urgent fixes to make.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945730242182365360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221349526733389239.post-29162007862027784862008-03-18T09:38:00.002+00:002008-03-18T09:45:13.258+00:00Congratulations OSMA corner has been turned, the nice people from OpenStreetMap (OSM) have got some cash from Europe... <a href="http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/03/17/cloudmade-raises-e24m-to-supercharge-open-source-maps/">here</a>.<br /><br />Seems they've given themselves a public name in order to package their offering 'CloudMade' - which is nice - and maybe we should join them - '3DCloudMade' anyone?.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945730242182365360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221349526733389239.post-24574831497266925262008-03-17T11:23:00.003+00:002008-03-17T11:43:36.162+00:00In to XTech 2008Our submitted <a href="http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/537">Talk Brief / Abstract</a> has been accepted for <a href="http://2008.xtech.org/public/news">XTech 2008</a>. It's not clear who and when we'll be there, but I suspect we'll be there somehow.<br /><br />Meanwhile the idea that although <a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk/">Quakr</a> is the best idea on the world ever, it might not make us all rich is becoming clearer. After talking to <a href="http://2007.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/135">XTech 2007</a>, then being headhunted to talk at <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/where2007/view/e_sess/14645">Where 2.0</a>, then a couple of possible investors, then getting to the last 30 of 268 companies which applied to <a href="http://www.seedcamp.com/">Seedcamp</a>, then a couple of other nice people... it seems we're a bit ahead of everything and everyone. We're right of course that the new world will be a user generated environment and the other people who are trying to control a single set of 3D map data are wrong, but for now it may be time to leave it alone. Investment is not the thing that will turn this best ever idea into something with a reasonable return. It's still lots of fun and we'll more than likely still bug you all with it until we find the killer app that makes it financially interesting.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945730242182365360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221349526733389239.post-72266228611608162882008-03-12T09:54:00.003+00:002008-03-17T11:18:14.620+00:00related or relevant 03/08- Upgrade to Google 3D<br /><a href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/03/got-3d-data_04.html">here</a><br /><br />- 3d GPS by Dash<br /><a href="http://www.gpsreview.net/dash-in-3d/">here</a><br /><br />- Lane pictures on GPS device<br /><a href="http://www.gpsreview.net/tomtom-active-lane-guidance/">here</a><br /><br />- Electronic Compass != GPS<br /><a href="http://www.gpsreview.net/electronic-compass/">here</a><br /><br />----<br /><br />- Tech Talk on urban neo geo<br /><a href="http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2008/03/google-tech-talk-urban-reconstruction.html">here</a><br /><br />- Google Skymap<br /><a href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/03/organizing-more-than-one-worlds.html">here</a><br /><br />- Glasto Earth (the expensive mans <a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk/tags_g.html">this</a>)<br /><a href="http://paholmes.googlepages.com/home">here</a><br /><br />- Panoramia has 4 million geotagged photos (<a href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/03/march-vector-updates-in-google-earth.html">here</a>)<br />- Flickr has 1.5 million geotagged photos (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=geotagged&w=all">here</a><br />=> maybe quakr should start speaking to Panoramia?<br /><br /> - Sandy learns about Gravity in WOW<br /><a href="http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/sandy3d-2-new-tutorials-about-wow-integration-with-sandy.html">here</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945730242182365360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221349526733389239.post-76815214951787850212008-02-12T17:43:00.005+00:002008-02-28T13:51:35.643+00:00related or relevant 02/08- Microsoft Buys 3D Software Firm Caligari<br /><a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-microsoft-buys-3d-software-firm-for-mapping/">here</a> and <a href="http://www.caligari.com/">here</a><br /><br /> - The logo changed...<br /><a href="http://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/07/the-evolution-of-tech-companies-logos/">here</a><br /><br /> - Does your GPS know which way you're facing? - NO!<br /><a href="http://www.gpsreview.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=852">here</a><br /><br /> - maps.live.com gets a birds eye view<br /><a href="http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=sms3hcgwvr39&style=o&lvl=2&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=7591310&encType=1">here</a> and <a href="http://www.glasto.org/quakr/maps_stuff/live_ms_600.png" title="view larger image"><img src="http://www.glasto.org/quakr/maps_stuff/live_ms_600.png" alt="jericho, oxford" title="jericho, oxford" style="width:200px;"></a><br /><br /> ----<br /><br /> - A review of the ATP Photo Finder - a GPS auto tagger box<br /><a href="http://www.gpsreview.net/atp-photo-finder/">here</a><br /><br /> - Build swf's on the fly? Use an external asynchronous get system?<br /><a href="http://swxformat.org/">here</a><br /><br /> ----<br /><br /> - Google MAPS get static ... but don't do satelite imagery?<br /><a href="http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/staticmaps/index.html">here</a><br /><br /> - Taggr updated<br /><a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk/taggr">here</a><br /><br /> - Viewr updated<br /><a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk/viewr">here</a><br /><br /> - only $795 for a 360 panoramic lens and some software<br /><a href="http://www.kaidan.com/Detail.bok?no=101">here</a><br /><br /> - add the 360 thing with an eye-fi SDRAM memory card...<br /><a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/02/360_gizmos_one_shot_panor.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890">here</a><br /><br /> ----<br /><br /> - Home made GPS on camera auto tagger.<br /><a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/02/diy_gps_camera_attachment.html">here</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945730242182365360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221349526733389239.post-32348772182031733462008-02-11T19:30:00.000+00:002008-02-11T19:38:35.986+00:00Not a winge, honestfrom <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/api/discuss/72157594497877875/#comment72157603892832399">here</a>.<br /><br /><blockquote>I've been attempting to use sort with machine tags in the same photos.search api. Seems the sort is working to date level ONLY, even though the original photos are timestamped. I suppose I could attempt to sort inside my application, but ... is this a known bug / is there a workaround?<br /><br />to reproduce, go to www.flickr.com/services/api/explore/<br />user id = 85097477@N00<br />tags = walkhome<br />sort = date-taken-asc<br />machine tags = geo:lat=, geo:lon=, geo:dir=<br />machine tag mode = any<br />extras = date_taken<br /><br />first three results:<br /><photo id="978048548" owner="85097477@N00" secret="ad5dcdb8d5" server="1259" farm="2" title="DSC00289" ispublic="1" isfriend="0" isfamily="0" datetaken="2007-08-01 17:59:32" datetakengranularity="0"/><br /><photo id="977179253" owner="85097477@N00" secret="011da408b7" server="1416" farm="2" title="DSC00285" ispublic="1" isfriend="0" isfamily="0" datetaken="2007-08-01 17:57:06" datetakengranularity="0"/><br /><photo id="978039486" owner="85097477@N00" secret="df95c760e9" server="1270" farm="2" title="DSC00286" ispublic="1" isfriend="0" isfamily="0" datetaken="2007-08-01 17:58:02" datetakengranularity="0"/><br /><br />remove the machine tag bits and the first three results are correctly...<br /><photo id="978031002" owner="85097477@N00" secret="4a3bd3f881" server="1253" farm="2" title="DSC00283" ispublic="1" isfriend="0" isfamily="0" datetaken="2007-08-01 17:55:29" datetakengranularity="0"/><br /><photo id="977176661" owner="85097477@N00" secret="3c646cda47" server="1346" farm="2" title="DSC00284" ispublic="1" isfriend="0" isfamily="0" datetaken="2007-08-01 17:56:24" datetakengranularity="0"/><br /><photo id="977179253" owner="85097477@N00" secret="011da408b7" server="1416" farm="2" title="DSC00285" ispublic="1" isfriend="0" isfamily="0" datetaken="2007-08-01 17:57:06" datetakengranularity="0"/><br /></blockquote><br /><br />Meanwhile, I'm sure you've noticed some changes.... <a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk">http://www.quakr.co.uk</a> got itself a new logo! The <a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk/taggr">Taggr</a> has been updated to match and now has the quakr:zoom tag added. The <a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk/viewr">Viewr</a> is muchosly updated now at alpha 0.40 which must be some kind of milestone. The most recent additions have been a 'World Move' slider which loads into the world view more tiles and images, and a 'play' button which should auto-move the camera across the loaded image set. [due to the above flickr API bug however, it's not quite as perfect as it should be!].<br /><br />All comments as ever most welcome. There's still a pile of things in our heads which will be rendered into the software in the coming months.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945730242182365360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221349526733389239.post-68057353666248945012008-02-11T19:06:00.000+00:002008-02-11T19:07:11.932+00:00Quakr Paper on Issuu<div><embed src="http://static.issuu.com/webembed/viewers/style1/v1/IssuuViewer.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" scale="noscale" salign="l" wmode="transparent" flashvars="mode=preview&previewLayout=white&documentId=080211173334-5aae5158ec6f418ab0fb0c73f3f831f7&backgroundColor=%23319c00&layout=grey" style="width:335px;height:230px" name="flashticker" align="middle"></embed><div style="width:335px;text-align:left;"><a href="http://issuu.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://static.issuu.com/webembed/previewers/style1/v1/m1.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a><a href="http://issuu.com/viewer?mode=embed&documentId=080211173334-5aae5158ec6f418ab0fb0c73f3f831f7&layout=grey" target="_blank"><img src="http://static.issuu.com/webembed/previewers/style1/v1/m2.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a><a href="http://issuu.com/embed/guide?documentId=080211173334-5aae5158ec6f418ab0fb0c73f3f831f7&width=425&height=301" target="_blank"><img src="http://static.issuu.com/webembed/previewers/style1/v1/m3.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945730242182365360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221349526733389239.post-65587968360757046822008-01-23T19:04:00.000+00:002008-01-23T19:22:34.037+00:00Alpha 0.39 and Fast vs More?So we've been quietly updating the Viewr in the past months, and have today released the 'World Move' slider to replace the previous 'Camera Info' slider.<br /><br />Check it out at <a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk/viewr">http://www.quakr.co.uk/viewr</a>. All comments as ever welcome.<br /><br />Now. In building and releasing this version (and the last three or four to be frank), we've changed the way we GET from Flickr. In the distant past, we asked Flickr for the whole set of geo-located photos in a specific Bounding Box. Simple really. The only trouble was that a whole pile of them (90+%) were *no use* to us as they had no directional tag. So then we extended the Flickr API query to get ONLY the photos which were geo-located AND had some kind of directional tag (geo:dir, ge:head, ge:heading, kml:heading or geo:heading). Fabulous. And FAST. Now we were only getting usable photos and the response was speedy.<br /><br />But. Then we started thinking about usability and we added support for <a href="http://quakr.blogspot.com/2007/11/whats-point-of-your-photos.html">point</a>. But point isn't a machine tag, so attempting the fast GET wouldn't be sufficient to capture all the newly tagged photos. Hmmm...<br /><br />So what'd you prefer? 'Fast' or 'More'??? We're obviously considering a solution which would do both, but for now, give us a vote! We're defaulting to the 'More' version.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945730242182365360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221349526733389239.post-57986251241146241292008-01-04T11:17:00.000+00:002008-01-31T17:55:46.200+00:00related or relevant 01/08- 2008 the year of the neogeo?<br /><a href="http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2007/12/2008-year-of-neogeographer.html">here</a><br /><br /> - 2008 the year of the 3d web?<br /><a href="http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2007/12/papervision-2008-year-of-3d-web.html">here</a><br /><br /> - 3d Manchester<br /><a href="http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2007/12/virtual-manchester-model-by-arup.html">here</a><br /><br /> - Sandy now released in AS3 and version 3.0.1 - time to upgrade?<br /><a href="http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/sandy-301-release.html">here</a><br /><br /> - Dartmouth / Kingsweir looking better!<br /><a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk/viewr/?lat=50.349417&lon=-3.56796">here</a> and <a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk/viewr/index.html?lon=-3.5777&alt=71&lat=50.3478&tag=&camx=-14&camy=0&camz=-3">here</a><br /><br /> - POIs - a review!<br /><a href="http://www.gpsreview.net/pois/">here</a><br /><br /> - Uluru with sunset...<br /><a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk/viewr/index.html?lon=130.9975&alt=71&lat=-25.3262&tag=&camx=-4&camy=2&camz=3">here</a><br /><br />Happy New Year to all and sundry.<br /><br />----<br /><br />- Everyscape - panorama's created by the people (but still not TIME based?)<br /><a href="http://www.everyscape.com/cambridge-ma.us.aspx?p=87705&f=256.06436915482595&th=0.2584214">here</a><br /><br /> - 3d glasses (again?)<br /><a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/01/10/ces_the_3d_projection_goggles.html">here</a><br /><br /> - silly, but faces in places...<br /><a href="http://www.facesinplaces.blogspot.com/">here</a><br /><br />----<br /><br /> - Strange maps<br /><a href="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/">here</a><br /><br /> - in building the real world, Quakr is a VGI<br /><a href="http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2008/01/volunteered-geographic-information-vgi.html">here</a><br /><br /> - garmin, macs and the unhappy people...<br /><a href="http://www.gpsreview.net/garmin-bobcat/">here</a><br /><br /> - Ordnance Survey Opens Source Code to Frustration- a review...<br /><a href="http://crschmidt.net/blog/archives/287/ordnance-survey-openspace-api-using-openlayers/">here</a><br /><br /> - Interesting bloke in general<br /><a href="http://crschmidt.net/">here</a><br /><br /> - PSP as GPS+Maps = "GPSP"?<br /><a href="http://uk.playstation.com/psp/news/articles/detail/item90335/See-the-world-with-PSP/">here</a><br /><br />----<br /> - Physical Map Artists going out of business<br /><a href="http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2008/01/digital-maps-paper-map-companies.html">here</a><br /><br /> - 22,000 photographs = New York Mapped!<br /><a href="http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2008/01/prototype-game-preview-modelling-new.html">here</a><br /><br /> - Physics in 3d for Sandy = WOW<br /><a href="http://www.flashsandy.org/blog/wow-as3-3d-physic-engine.html">here</a><br /><br />----<br /><br /> - A great geoblogger post - are we nearly there yet?<br /><a href="http://geobloggers.com/archives/2008/01/28/are-we-nearly-there-yet/">here</a><br /><br /> - Nokia Location Tagger Launched.<br /><a href="http://betalabs.nokia.com/blog/2008/01/28/nokia-location-tagger-beta-launched/">here</a><br /><br /> - A conference for me and thee?<br /><a href="http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/barbican/programme.asp">here</a><br /><br /> - Un-blur-ing a photo.<br /><a href="http://www.hackszine.com/blog/archive/2008/01/remove_shake_and_motion_blur_f.html?CMP=OTC-7G2N43923558">here</a><br /><br /> - Make a 3d thing from a 2d photo.<br /><a href="http://make3d.stanford.edu/images/view3D/185">here</a><br /><br /> - Garmin invade phone space...<br /><a href="http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/01/30/garmin.nuviphone/">here</a><br /><br /> - ldodds - his best ever post?<br /><a href="http://www.ldodds.com/blog/archives/000321.html">here</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945730242182365360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221349526733389239.post-24397378083139167442007-12-05T11:01:00.000+00:002007-12-13T12:20:59.304+00:00New TaggrA new release of the Taggr application takes it to v0.22. Minor changes include fitting it into a 1024x768 window and promoting the 'See this location in the Viewr' link. <a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk/taggr/">Taggr v0.22</a>.<br /><br />Comments welcome as ever.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945730242182365360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221349526733389239.post-63211521006224922892007-12-04T16:29:00.000+00:002007-12-21T15:30:41.851+00:00related or relevent 12/07- Accelerometer sensor in N95 = radio control car controller!<br /><a href="http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/blog/andreas-jakls-forum-nokia-blog/python/2007/11/27/shakerracer">here</a><br /><br /> - N95 as light sabre using accelerometers<br /><a href="http://www.symbian-guru.com/welcome/2007/11/lightsaber-v11-.html">here</a><br /><br /> - The 'Pointers' group on Flickr<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/pointers/">here</a><br /><br /> - The Flickr Pointers Pool<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/pointers/pool/">here</a><br /><br /> - The relatively rubbish Flickr Map of the Pointers Pool<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/pointers/pool/map?mode=group">here</a><br /><br /> - Tracking fingers with a Wii remote -- not wholly related, but cute.<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0awjPUkBXOU">here</a><br /><br /> - GMiF = an add on for mozilla = the real taggr?<br /><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2512">here</a><br /><br /> - EARTHMINE - a video - pasted from <a href="http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2007/12/earthmine-new-kind-of-map.html">here</a>!<br /><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://blip.tv/scripts/flash/showplayer.swf?enablejs=true&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fearthmine%2Eblip%2Etv%2Frss&file=http%3A%2F%2Fblip%2Etv%2Frss%2Fflash%2F542949&showplayerpath=http%3A%2F%2Fblip%2Etv%2Fscripts%2Fflash%2Fshowplayer%2Eswf" width="400" height="255" allowfullscreen="true" id="showplayer"><param name="movie" value="http://blip.tv/scripts/flash/showplayer.swf?enablejs=true&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fearthmine%2Eblip%2Etv%2Frss&file=http%3A%2F%2Fblip%2Etv%2Frss%2Fflash%2F542949&showplayerpath=http%3A%2F%2Fblip%2Etv%2Fscripts%2Fflash%2Fshowplayer%2Eswf" /><param name="quality" value="best" /></object><br /><br /> - OS maps available in API from Jan 08...<br /><a href="http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/media/news/2007/dec/osopenspace.html">here</a><br /><br /> - OpenSpace from OS website...<br /><a href="http://openspace.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/openspace/index.html">here</a><br /><br /> - MapThis! app for map display + GPS on PSP<br /><a href="http://deniska.dcemu.co.uk/mapthis-0-5-20-with-holux-support-for-slim-psps-79825.html">here</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUhBsLyCjMM">you tube video...</a><br /><br /> - OpenStreetMap Tiles in VRML (not new!)<br /><a href="http://www.freemap.sk/index2.php?maxzoom=17&tileset=1&z=5&x=17&y=10">here</a><br /><br /> - OpenStreetMap API Spec (not new!)<br /><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Using_OpenStreetMap">here</a><br /><br /> - Google Map Blog - Confessions of a Search Box (hijacked all Flickr images for <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/pointers/">pointers</a>!) <br /><a href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2007/12/confessions-of-search-box.html">here</a><br /><br /> - Flickr stats.<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/me/stats">here</a><br /><br /> - GPS for the IPhone - coming February 2008 for $89.<br /><a href="http://partfoundry.com/iphonegps.html">here</a><br /><br /> - a navigation device without a screen! Haptic innit!<br /><a href="http://www.kofriel.com/momo/index.php">here</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945730242182365360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221349526733389239.post-69731186266977105572007-11-30T13:43:00.000+00:002007-11-30T12:32:28.549+00:00What's the point of your photos?Go on! Give your photos a point! It's not hard and it'll make them far more useful and interesting to view.<br /><br />Currently there are a large number of mapped photos in flickr<br /> - More than 30,320,000 are geotagged... but ...<br /> - 8,215 have a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=geo%3Adir&m=text">geo:dir</a><br /> - 3,419 have a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=ge%3Ahead&m=text">ge:head/ge:heading</a><br /> - 26 have a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=kml%3Aheading&m=text">kml:heading</a><br /> - 10 have a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=geo%3Aheading&m=text">geo:heading</a><br /> - 0 have a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=kml%3Adir&m=text">kml:dir</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=quakr%3Acompass&m=text">quakr:compass</a> or <a href="http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=exif%3AGPSImgDirection+&m=text">exif:GPSImgDirection</a> (at least that's what the searchers tells me)<br /><br />That's such a huge minority, we decided to make it all easier for you...<br /><br />As of α0.38, the Quakr Viewr now supports point!<br /><br />simply add<br /><b>point=</b>[[north, northnortheast, northeast, eastnortheast, east, eastsoutheast, southeast, southsoutheast, south, southsouthwest, southwest, westsouthwest, west, westnorthwest, northwest, northnorthwest]] or<br /><b>point=</b>[[n, nne, ne, ene, e, ese, se, sse, s, ssw, sw, wsw, w, wnw, nw, nnw]] or<br /><b>point=</b>[[0...359]]<br />and the <a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk/greasemonkey/">greasemonkey flickr script</a> will understand and add the link to the Viewr to your Flickr image page and we'll include your images in the generated world.<br /><br />See <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hardbutnot/1534749879/in/set-72157602245100210/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/hardbutnot/1534749879/in/set-72157602245100210/</a><br />as a simple example from flickr ... and in the viewr <a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk/viewr/index.html?lon=-1.2662&alt=71&lat=51.7533&tag=&camx=13&camy=0&camz=-7">here</a>.<br /><br />Comments as ever welcome...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945730242182365360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221349526733389239.post-33391282557571611112007-11-30T12:00:00.000+00:002007-11-30T12:17:58.680+00:00related or relevant 09/07 to 11/07- How to become a tagging master!<br /><a href="http://www.43folders.com/2007/10/04/becoming-tagging-kungfu-master">here</a><br /><br /> - How much is a 3d model worth?<br /><blockquote>Roger Rayle has used Google Earth to visualise (pall Gelam) Dioxane Levels/Plume maps and Aquifer locations, of note the system is used not just as a communication tool but also as a decision making system. The data is visualised over time providing a genuinely impressive implementation of the technology developed for the Society of Residents for Safe Water.<br /><br />Rogers notes that a picture is worth 1000 words, a 3D model is equivalent to 10,000 words and if you add in the forth dimension of time its worth 1,000,000 words.</blockquote><br />from <a href="http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2007/10/google-earth-from-3d-city-to-data.html">here</a><br />or only 446 if you read <a href="http://www.alleghanynews.com/realitycheck/column383.html">this</a><br /><br /> - microsoft startup thingy<br /><a href="http://microsoftstartupzone.com/default.aspx">here</a><br /><br /> - outsource your brain?<br /><a href="http://www.43folders.com/2007/10/11/downside-outboard-brain">here</a><br /><br /> - 3d film sequences<br /><a href="http://www.maxkiesler.com/index.php/designdemo/fullview/recreating_movement_tools_for_analyzing_film_sequences/">here</a><br /><br /> - Photophlow - worth a go?<br /><a href="http://www.photophlow.com/">here</a><br /><br /> - Flickr Slide Shows, nice...<br /><a href="http://flickrslidr.com/">here</a><br /> - make 3d model from video<br /><a href="http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2007/11/3d-urban-modelling-direct-from-video.html">here</a><br /><br /> - collaborative geographic information?<br /><a href="http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2007/11/3d-collaborative-geographic-information.html">here</a><br /><br /> - tags and everything in one place - a new service<br /><a href="http://www.twine.com/about">here</a><br /><br /> - Attempted comment on Joi ito's blog...<br /><a href="http://joi.ito.com/archives/2007/11/20/shibuya_photowalk.html">here</a><br /><br /> - Pixel 3d maps - lush<br /><a href="http://sh.edushi.com/">here</a><br /><br /> - buy a house in virtual for homeless in real...<br /><a href="http://www.buildacity.org.uk/index.aspx">here</a><br /><br /> - Twinty - a.n.other new new thing?<br /><a href="http://metaversed.com/30-oct-2007/can-twinity-foster-creativity-and-economy-virtual-cities">here</a><br /><br /> - Flickr launches 'places' geodata to city/town names<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/places">here</a>, and <a href="http://geobloggers.com/archives/2007/11/28/the-overdue-flickr-places-blog-post-part-i-urls/">here</a><br /><br /> - Google Terrain (satelite now has show or hide overlay)<br /><a href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2007/11/explore-new-terrain.html">here</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945730242182365360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221349526733389239.post-12754419460547826232007-10-15T09:28:00.000+00:002007-12-13T12:21:41.263+00:00New alpha times twoFollowing some R&R for the last month and a half, the Quakr team have once more returned to work! Released today are two updated αlphα's.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk/taggr">Taggr</a> - the tool to help you tag.<br /> > Now supports GEO:ALT and GE:TILT tag.<br /> > A simpler, clearer help and new look and feel.<br /> > Links to the Viewr.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk/viewr">Viewr</a> - the 3d photo view<br /> > Compass on the ground instead of three lines<br /> > Semi transparent images until selection<br /> > No longer standard 'shabbatagging' - more images displayed in first view<br /><br />All comments as welcome as ever...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945730242182365360noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221349526733389239.post-65327891849063374012007-08-06T10:30:00.000+00:002007-08-08T10:38:36.962+00:00related or relevant, 08/07- geoblog post about 3d globes...<br /><a href="http://geobloggers.com/archives/2007/08/03/viewing-data-on-spinning-globes/">here</a><br /><br /> - google vs Ordinance Survey - there are no winners...<br /><a href="http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2007/08/ordnance-survey-and-google-statements.html">here</a><br /><br /> - Quakr went to the pub<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/katieportwin/sets/72157601252956031/">here</a><br /><br /> - Viewr alph 0.32 = image info + date taken + tags<br /><a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk/viewr">here</a><br /><br /> - A Viewr depiction of how to get from the station to my house...<br /><a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk/viewr/index.html?lon=-1.26954&alt=70&lat=51.756157&tag=walkhome&camx=25.40&camy=20&camz=-42.57">here</a><br /><br /> - Quakr talk at UCL Brown Bag, 01.08.2007<br /><a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk/UCL_brownbag/">here</a><br /><br />-- more --<br /><br /> - topography on plates & "what it's like to walk up a hill discussed..."<br /><a href="http://geobloggers.com/archives/2007/08/07/topoware-mapping-out-lunch-time/">here</a><br /><br /> - street view VS everyscape VS mapjack in YouTube form!<br /><a href="http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2007/08/mapjack-google-street-view-and.html">here</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945730242182365360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221349526733389239.post-78865128538062948932007-07-18T10:15:00.000+00:002007-07-30T12:55:37.611+00:00related or relevant, 07/07- George Wolberg and something he calls Photo Sketch.<br /><a href="http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2007/07/news_roundup_ge_desi.html">here</a>, <a href="http://www.bestechvideos.com/2007/07/08/photosketch-a-photo-centric-3d-modeling-tool">here</a>, <a href="http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2007/07/google-photosketch-rapid-photo.html">here</a> and <a href="http://caffeinepete.blogspot.com/2007/07/google-talk-on-photosketch.html">here</a><br /><br /> - we've make'd it!<br /><a href="http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/07/quakr_7d_tiltometer_geoca.html">here</a><br /><br /> - an important aside.<br /><a href="http://deskbound.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/important-news-about-the-internet-that-everyone-should-read/">here</a><br /><br /> - Yahoo tiles get "better".<br /><a href="http://ylocalblog.com/blog/2007/05/16/yahoo-maps-global-rollout-gets-a-new-look-%e2%80%93-and-a-new-platform/">here</a> and <a href="http://geobloggers.com/archives/2007/05/16/yahoo-maps-gets-another-facelift/">here</a><br /><br /> - Flickr 20 Million GeoTagged photos.<br /><a href="http://geobloggers.com/archives/2007/04/10/flickr-just-hit-20-million-geotagged-photos/">here</a><br /><br /> - Virtual Cogs - GPS + Camera + PSP screen?<br /><a href="http://wiki.virtualcogs.com/tiki-view_blog_post.php?postId=59&blogId=1">here</a><br /><br /> -- more --<br /><br /> - A personal blimp (not wholly related...)<br /><a href="http://www.boston.com/business/video/personalblimp/">here</a><br /><br /> - Google starts a SketchUp blog...<br /><a href="http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/">here</a><br /><br /> - Google Campus 3D and other SketchUp content<br /><a href="http://contest.sketchup.com/">here</a><br /><br /> - map the floods<br /><a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/archives/2007/07/25/turn_to_google_maps_for_flood_updates.html">here</a>, <a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=110697284745114202648.000435deadb5810139523&hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=h&om=0&ll=51.498057,-1.028938&spn=0.147689,0.312424&z=12">here</a><br /><br /> - moblog - mobile blogging...<br /><a href="http://moblog.co.uk/">here</a><br /><br /> -- more --<br /><br /> - Flashr - a actionscript wrapper to the Flickr API<br /><a href="http://flashr.kelvinluck.com/#/">here</a><br /><br /> - Psynchr - used the above to make a timeline of images<br /><a href="http://www.geocities.jp/psynchr/about.html">here</a> (I tried and failed to get two photosets into it... http://www.flickr.com/photos/katieportwin/sets/72157594490167134/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/hardbutnot/sets/72157600047520967/ -- hmmm)<br /><br /> - Flappr - entirely flash based flickr viewr...<br /><a href="http://bcdef.org/flappr/">here</a> (it's a bit old...)<br /><br /> - Google Map blog post "A world built by its inhabitants"<br /><a href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2007/07/world-built-by-its-inhabitants.html">here</a><br /><br /> - planning? pfflanning...<br /><a href="http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/542-the-5-10-20-year-plan">here</a><br /><br /> - pileus - an umbrella with lots of stuff...<br /><a href="http://www.pileus.net/">here</a><br /><br /> - tech review of a new service - "the flickr 3d"<br /><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18596/">here</a><br /><br /> - flickrVision in 3d...<br /><a href="http://flickrvision.com/maps/show_3d">here</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945730242182365360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221349526733389239.post-78399177381182356592007-07-15T12:20:00.000+00:002007-07-18T10:46:43.176+00:00State of the OpenStreetMap (horse=yes again)Thoroughly enjoyed <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/">OpenStreetMap</a>'s <a href="http://www.stateofthemap.org" title='State of The Map 2007'><img src="http://www.stateofthemap.org/button/sotm.png" border=0></a> conference in Manchester yesterday. <br /><br />For a start, it stopped raining for about an hour in the afternoon for the first time since I moved here.<br /><br />Second, as a rambler, I am in love with <a href="http://www.free-map.org.uk/freemap/index.php"><img src="http://www.free-map.org.uk/images/freemap_small.png"/></a>. Nick takes take a weekly data dump from openstreetmap, adds a contour map from Nasa, and - best of all - allows annotations on the map, such as "this path is a bit scrambly" and (I envisage) "field on the left contains farmer with shotgun". <br /><br />Third, I enjoyed seeing that London motorcycle courier timeline <a href="http://www.ecourier.co.uk/media/eCourier_GPS.mpeg">GPS traces thing</a> again:<br /><img src="http://www.zxv.ltd.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/courier_map_animation.gif" width="300"/><br /><br />.. but was particularly interested to hear Steve's comment that it wasn't actually as useful as envisaged, since the GPS traces had no accompanying metadata. Hmm, a gratifying point for metadata geeks.<br /><br />Fourth, Andy Robinson talked about tagging and standardisation. Openstreetmap suffer the same problem as Quakr - synonyms and homonyms, tag soup, emerging taxonomies not emerging in the way you expected - in short, the "horse=yes" problem. Like us, they don't want to impose a standard like GML or prevent users from typing freeform, but like us, want to make some use of tagging metadata and hence could use a little standardisation. Andy had a few suggestions, including:<br /><br />1. Get people to reuse terms where possible, even if they aren't a perfect fit.<br />2. Have a Q&A style wiki to facilitate this.<br />3. Use definitions from the Oxford English Dictionary if in doubt.<br />4. Use namespaces - Andy is suggesting STAG_BASE: for things like rivers and fields, STAG_BUILT: for buildings, canals, etc, STAG_ADMIN: for road classifications etc.<br /><br />Although I like namespaces and think they can work for tag data (geo:lat is pretty popular), I'm not completely convinced they'll solve the tag soup problem. Namespaces are good for saying what vocabulary you're using, or disambiguating two keys which belong in two domains, but did we really have two kinds of horse? It's definitely a good way of categorising things though. <br /><br />And all power to Andy for tackling what to my mind is the most important and interesting problem facing anyone dealing with tagging metadata - that it's a Messy Mungy Business. (See <a href="http://2007.xtech.org/public/schedule/paper/57">what does 'tilt' mean, anyway?"</a> <img src="http://2007.xtech.org/papers/1/135/57/17_camera_tilt.jpg" width="30"/>)<br /> <br /><br />Finally, you just can't beat artwork like this:<br /><br /><embed style="width:300px; height:226px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=6794750573025983103&hl=en-GB" flashvars=""> </embed><br /><br />Enjoy!Katie Portwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18433296546925661088noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221349526733389239.post-66636474346072252782007-07-15T12:09:00.000+00:002007-07-18T10:47:52.133+00:00Tiltometer featured on Make<a href="http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/07/quakr_7d_tiltometer_geoca.html"><img src = "http://makezine.com/images/covers/current_100h.jpg"/></a><br /><br />Easy on the woodbines though Peter - we may be banned in California by next week.Katie Portwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18433296546925661088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221349526733389239.post-19329803207429671202007-07-10T19:31:00.000+00:002007-07-10T21:12:13.834+00:00Quietly working awayFollowing a hectic June which included moving house, <a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk/tags_g.html">Glastonbury</a>, some <a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk/viewr/?lat=51.1510&lon=-2.5836&tag=">photos</a> and our <a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk/Where2.0_2007/">speaking engagement at the Where 2.0 conference</a>, we've been mostly a bit quiet.<br /><br />However... <br />*) Due to popular request we've updated the <a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk/taggr">Taggr</a> application to include the newly updated Google Map satellite imagery. <br />*) We are currently working "hard" on getting some more functionality into the <a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk/viewr">Viewr</a>. <br />*) We've done some testing on the relatively newly released Sandy v1.2 and it looks oddly slower, but we'll discuss and sort that soon I suspect.<br />*) Now that the Flickr Query problem we uncovered has been fixed, the whole <b>Viewr</b> experience is much speedier. We're now able to subset the GEO data we get from Flickr to only include those with <a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk/tags.html">the minimum tag set</a> on the first query rather than having to mess with the whole pile ourselves.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945730242182365360noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221349526733389239.post-25128906566530985762007-06-06T11:30:00.000+00:002007-06-07T16:42:18.730+00:00What's this?<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/x180/520717071/"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/223/520717071_5c98e020bc_m.jpg" alt="a dead one of those" title="a dead one of those" /></a><br /><br />So. <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/where2007/view/e_spkr/3835">I</a> <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/where2007/view/e_sess/14645">talked</a>. People seemed to listen (although it was fairly hard to look into the eyes of 800ish people in a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hardbutnot/520723903/">huge</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hardbutnot/520724411/">ballroom</a>) and then asked sensible questions of me after it. I would have said that 24 hours worth of travel for 15 minutes of talking was some poor economics, but the geekworking potential proved irresistible. It was really good to meet the <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/where2007/view/e_spkr/2817">organisational wizzo</a> and his various helpers, re-acquaint myself with <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/where2007/view/e_spkr/909">Schuyler Erle</a> and the good <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/where2007/view/e_spkr/2716">folks</a> from <a href="http://www.loki.com/">Loki</a>, and meet up with variously interested and interesting people.<br /><br /><h2>A dead one of those...</h2><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/x180/520716067/"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/238/520716067_95453d490c_m.jpg" alt="what's this?" title="what's this?" /></a><br /><br /><h2>Coverage:</h2><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/x180/520716031/in/set-72157600280624429/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/x180/520716031/in/set-72157600280624429/</a><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gisuser/520279393/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/gisuser/520279393/</a><br /><a href="http://think.random-stuff.org/FrontPage/archive/2007/05/29/where-2-0-lightning-post">http://think.random-stuff.org/FrontPage/archive/2007/05/29/where-2-0-lightning-post</a><br /><a href="http://sensorymetrics.com/2007/05/29/where-20-conference-oreilly-trademarks-where/">http://sensorymetrics.com/2007/05/29/where-20-conference-oreilly-trademarks-where/</a><br /><a href="http://ipid.wordpress.com/2007/05/29/where-the-2nd/">http://ipid.wordpress.com/2007/05/29/where-the-2nd/</a><br /><a href="http://www.edparsons.com/?p=468">http://www.edparsons.com/?p=468</a><br /><a href="http://ubikwitus.blogspot.com/2007/05/where-2.html">http://ubikwitus.blogspot.com/2007/05/where-2.html</a><br /><a href="http://www.juicygeography.co.uk/blog/?p=158">http://www.juicygeography.co.uk/blog/?p=158</a><br /><a href="http://www.txtst.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/215">http://www.txtst.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/215</a><br /><a href="http://where2-0.blogspot.com/2007/06/morning-session-day-12.html">http://where2-0.blogspot.com/2007/06/morning-session-day-12.html</a><br /><a href="http://threeminds.organic.com/2007/05/updated_where_is_here_at_where.html">http://threeminds.organic.com/2007/05/updated_where_is_here_at_where.html</a><br /><br /><h2>Quakr-centric Highlights:</h2><br />Google CEO of Maps steals our words "It's attempting to show what it's like to be there" - some 30 minutes before I get to say them!<br />Everyone seemed to use "GeoRSS" somewhere in their talk.<br />The money for map data and applications is coming from Real Estate and Tourism in the main.<br />GeoVector have a phone plugin thing with a digital compass and talked about an agreement with phone manufacturers to insert one into all new models? <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/where2007/view/e_sess/11949">talk details</a>.<br />A number of people mentioned an SD-RAM memory card for camera's with 1GB of space AND a GPS device which automagically EXIF's the images taken with GPS data - called Eye-Film, the website is <a href="http://www.eye.fi/">http://www.eye.fi/</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945730242182365360noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1221349526733389239.post-60057445355247526812007-06-05T12:20:00.000+00:002007-07-02T12:52:29.304+00:00related or relevant, 06/07- Google Earth does the Tour De France<br /><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/07/tour-de-france-goes-3d-with-google.html">here</a><br /><br /> - KML into GMaps = my photos on Gmap?<br /><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://kml.lover.googlepages.com/my-vacation-photos.kml">here</a><br /><br /> - PPT version of the XTech Presentation<br /><a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk/XTECH07/xtech_2007.ppt">here</a> (16Mb)<br /><br /> - PPT version of the Where 2.0 Presentation<br /><a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk/Where2.0_2007/where_2007.ppt">here</a> (11Mb)<br /><br /> - Ask turns into Ask 3D<br /><a href="http://about.ask.com/en/docs/about/site_features.shtml">here</a><br /><br /> - JetBlue photo's from planes<br /><a href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2007/06/jetblue-point-of-view.html">here</a><br /><br />-- more --<br /><br /> - BBC using Photosynth fore Britain collection<br /><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/britain/photocollection/index.shtml">here</a><br /><br /> - same story on Guardian Unlimited<br /><a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/archives/2007/06/07/the_bbc_and_microsoft_want_your_photos_to_synthesise_britain.html">here</a><br /><br /> - Eye-film = SDRAM with Wifi = always connected camera = GPD in EXIF?<br /><a href="http://www.efi.fi">here</a><br /><br /> - read in a Wii remote's accelerometer information...<br /><a href="http://www.windmeadow.com/node/42">here</a><br /><br />-- more --<br /><br /> - eye-fi gets $5.5M funding<br /><a href="http://www.americanventuremagazine.com/news.php?newsid=3021">here</a> or <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118153283417130900.html?mod=rss_whats_news_technology">here</a><br /><br />-- more --<br /><br /> - "kinda like Google Earth as a flash app in the browser"<br /><a href="http://www.edito.qc.ca/2007/06/13/where-20-google-dev-day-summary/">here</a><br /><br /> - "found from Quakr Viewr"<br /><a href="http://www.stanford.edu/~cengel/cgi-bin/anthrospace/quickly-retrieve-levation-from-latlong">here</a><br /><br /> - a video on photosynth and how it relates to us<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-DqZ8jAmv0">here</a><br /><br /> - to patent or not to patent - that is the question this paper answers<br /><a href="http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13146">here</a><br /><br />-- more --<br /><br /> - a review of geovector from this time last year<br /><a href="http://theponderingprimate.blogspot.com/2006/05/geovector-gets-click-on-real-world.html">here</a><br /><br /> - interesting London Uni research sites<br /><a href="http://www.webparkservices.info/">here</a>, <a href="http://www.locus.org.uk/">here</a> and <a href="http://www.lbs4all.org/">here</a><br /><br /> - google gets better images of the UK<br /><a href="http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/910528/an/latest/page/0#910528">here</a><br /><br /> - google zoomed in satellite imagery of Oxford<br /><a href="http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=100143279008110251048.00000113405bfb7bf2b42&ll=51.7543,-1.258079&spn=0.001876,0.003701&t=h&z=18&om=1">here</a><br /><br /> - LORP - sightseeing his Rome set<br /><a href="http://www.quakr.co.uk/viewr/?lat=41.895725&lon=12.484406&tag=">here</a><br /><br /> - journal about where in Japanese mentions us<br /><a href="http://journal.mycom.co.jp/articles/2007/06/11/where20/001.html">here</a><br /><br /> - sandy 1.2 released<br /><a href="http://www.flashsandy.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=560&hl=">here</a><br /><br />-- more --<br /><br /> - google picassa web albums get maps and mobile<br /><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/put-your-photos-on-map-and-picasa-on.html">here</a><br /><br /> - google gadget cash likened to facebook widgets?<br /><a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-facebook-widget-acquisitions-google-funding-widgets-through-venture-pro/">here</a><br /><br /> - digital urban - a blog of interest...<br /><a href="http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/">here</a><br /><br /> - everyscape - better than google streetview?<br /><a href="http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2007/06/everyscape-better-than-google-street.html">here</a> and <a href="http://www.everyscape.com">here</a><br /><br /> - earthmine - many many Quicktime VR's with tags?<br /><a href="http://www.earthmine.com/">here</a><br /><br /> - 4d flythrough - i.e. 3D + Time - interesting researcher<br /><a href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~phlosoft/">here</a><br /><br /> - PC World article about GPSing your photos<br /><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,132760-c,digitalcameras/article.html">here</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12945730242182365360noreply@blogger.com0