related or relevant 01/08

- 2008 the year of the neogeo?
here

- 2008 the year of the 3d web?
here

- 3d Manchester
here

- Sandy now released in AS3 and version 3.0.1 - time to upgrade?
here

- Dartmouth / Kingsweir looking better!
here and here

- POIs - a review!
here

- Uluru with sunset...
here

Happy New Year to all and sundry.

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- Everyscape - panorama's created by the people (but still not TIME based?)
here

- 3d glasses (again?)
here

- silly, but faces in places...
here

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- Strange maps
here

- in building the real world, Quakr is a VGI
here

- garmin, macs and the unhappy people...
here

- Ordnance Survey Opens Source Code to Frustration- a review...
here

- Interesting bloke in general
here

- PSP as GPS+Maps = "GPSP"?
here

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- Physical Map Artists going out of business
here

- 22,000 photographs = New York Mapped!
here

- Physics in 3d for Sandy = WOW
here

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- A great geoblogger post - are we nearly there yet?
here

- Nokia Location Tagger Launched.
here

- A conference for me and thee?
here

- Un-blur-ing a photo.
here

- Make a 3d thing from a 2d photo.
here

- Garmin invade phone space...
here

- ldodds - his best ever post?
here

New Taggr

A 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. Taggr v0.22.

Comments welcome as ever.

related or relevent 12/07

- Accelerometer sensor in N95 = radio control car controller!
here

- N95 as light sabre using accelerometers
here

- The 'Pointers' group on Flickr
here

- The Flickr Pointers Pool
here

- The relatively rubbish Flickr Map of the Pointers Pool
here

- Tracking fingers with a Wii remote -- not wholly related, but cute.
here

- GMiF = an add on for mozilla = the real taggr?
here

- EARTHMINE - a video - pasted from here!


- OS maps available in API from Jan 08...
here

- OpenSpace from OS website...
here

- MapThis! app for map display + GPS on PSP
here
you tube video...

- OpenStreetMap Tiles in VRML (not new!)
here

- OpenStreetMap API Spec (not new!)
here

- Google Map Blog - Confessions of a Search Box (hijacked all Flickr images for pointers!)
here

- Flickr stats.
here

- GPS for the IPhone - coming February 2008 for $89.
here

- a navigation device without a screen! Haptic innit!
here

What'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.

Currently there are a large number of mapped photos in flickr
- More than 30,320,000 are geotagged... but ...
- 8,215 have a geo:dir
- 3,419 have a ge:head/ge:heading
- 26 have a kml:heading
- 10 have a geo:heading
- 0 have a kml:dir, quakr:compass or exif:GPSImgDirection (at least that's what the searchers tells me)

That's such a huge minority, we decided to make it all easier for you...

As of α0.38, the Quakr Viewr now supports point!

simply add
point=[[north, northnortheast, northeast, eastnortheast, east, eastsoutheast, southeast, southsoutheast, south, southsouthwest, southwest, westsouthwest, west, westnorthwest, northwest, northnorthwest]] or
point=[[n, nne, ne, ene, e, ese, se, sse, s, ssw, sw, wsw, w, wnw, nw, nnw]] or
point=[[0...359]]
and the greasemonkey flickr script will understand and add the link to the Viewr to your Flickr image page and we'll include your images in the generated world.

See http://www.flickr.com/photos/hardbutnot/1534749879/in/set-72157602245100210/
as a simple example from flickr ... and in the viewr here.

Comments as ever welcome...

related or relevant 09/07 to 11/07

- How to become a tagging master!
here

- How much is a 3d model worth?

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.

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.

from here
or only 446 if you read this

- microsoft startup thingy
here

- outsource your brain?
here

- 3d film sequences
here

- Photophlow - worth a go?
here

- Flickr Slide Shows, nice...
here
- make 3d model from video
here

- collaborative geographic information?
here

- tags and everything in one place - a new service
here

- Attempted comment on Joi ito's blog...
here

- Pixel 3d maps - lush
here

- buy a house in virtual for homeless in real...
here

- Twinty - a.n.other new new thing?
here

- Flickr launches 'places' geodata to city/town names
here, and here

- Google Terrain (satelite now has show or hide overlay)
here

New alpha times two

Following 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.

Taggr - the tool to help you tag.
> Now supports GEO:ALT and GE:TILT tag.
> A simpler, clearer help and new look and feel.
> Links to the Viewr.

Viewr - the 3d photo view
> Compass on the ground instead of three lines
> Semi transparent images until selection
> No longer standard 'shabbatagging' - more images displayed in first view

All comments as welcome as ever...

related or relevant, 08/07

- geoblog post about 3d globes...
here

- google vs Ordinance Survey - there are no winners...
here

- Quakr went to the pub
here

- Viewr alph 0.32 = image info + date taken + tags
here

- A Viewr depiction of how to get from the station to my house...
here

- Quakr talk at UCL Brown Bag, 01.08.2007
here

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- topography on plates & "what it's like to walk up a hill discussed..."
here

- street view VS everyscape VS mapjack in YouTube form!
here