Not a winge, honest

from here.

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?

to reproduce, go to www.flickr.com/services/api/explore/
user id = 85097477@N00
tags = walkhome
sort = date-taken-asc
machine tags = geo:lat=, geo:lon=, geo:dir=
machine tag mode = any
extras = date_taken

first three results:
<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"/>
<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"/>
<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"/>

remove the machine tag bits and the first three results are correctly...
<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"/>
<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"/>
<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"/>

Meanwhile, I'm sure you've noticed some changes.... http://www.quakr.co.uk got itself a new logo! The Taggr has been updated to match and now has the quakr:zoom tag added. The Viewr 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!].

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.

Quakr Paper on Issuu

Alpha 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.

Check it out at http://www.quakr.co.uk/viewr. All comments as ever welcome.

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.

But. Then we started thinking about usability and we added support for point. But point isn't a machine tag, so attempting the fast GET wouldn't be sufficient to capture all the newly tagged photos. Hmmm...

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.

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...