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

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- 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

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

Nice Banners

Quakr front page had a bit of a face lift at the weekend. It now links directly to a current release version of the Viewr and notes some news which may be of interest. Hope you like it.

Meanwhile, we've been furiously writing up the talk we gave to SWIG in order to present it to XTech as a paper. The deadline is next week so ... we've got ages!

Those nice business cards arrived safe and sound so we'll be palming them off on all and sundry over the coming weeks and months. And we've also been beavering away at a bunch of things we thought were wrong with the most recent incarnation of the Viewr. Expect a release soonish...

and suddenly a card appeared

Soon you'll get the opportunity to own one of these lovely things in reality. Aren't you lucky. And if you click through to the people who are making them for us, Vista, you'll get 25% off.

A 2nd gig to follow SWIG

Quakr is most proud to announce that it managed to stand up in front of the uber geeks that are SWIG and make their *thing* make sense. The 20 allocated minutes were split into three basic parts - an intro, a demo and a SWIG specific ending. This seemed to work. We're thinking that the article for XTech may well follow these lines.

If you were there and want a recap, or weren't and want to know what we said, http://www.quakr.net/~katie/SWIG has all the links we used. It doesn't have a copy of the words we said, but hopefully it covers the gist of the talk.

On the back of what seemed to us to be a well received talk and post-talk-public-house discussion, we've got a second "gig". This time it's locally run Oxford Geek Night to be held on the 11th April. See you there!