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

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