July 11, 2004
Location-based Photo Albums
From we-make-money-not-art
Trevor F. Smith has released the first public beta of a new photo map editor, 93 Photo Street. The application downloads and renders free maps for any region in the US and makes it easy to geolocate your photos and generate web photo maps.
This is something I and probably other people have thought would be fun and interesting to work with. The idea of cohering physical space somehow to your photos to help ground them and locate them. I wonder what you do next? I'd want to be able to make my maps to look like those goofy placemats you get at small town diners where a map of town shows all the featured tourist traps more than anything else.
Maybe i'll have to get out my Denis Woods to help me think through this one.. Posted by jbleecker at July 11, 2004 07:36 AM
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Nice to see a free app for this. Here's another approach using a GPS camera that came out last year:
http://interactive.usc.edu/archives/000866.html.
Also, SONY used to sell a small GPS unit to plug into your camera that came with an app called "Navin'You" and showed where your pictures were taken on a 3d terrain map of Japan. Picture here:
http://interactive.usc.edu/archives/sonynavinyougps_photomap.jpg
Heard that it was discontinued around 2001 for lack of interest...
Posted by: sfisher at July 11, 2004 06:11 PM
And another one here:
http://www.topofusion.com/
Posted by: sfisher at July 12, 2004 03:46 AM
And a good article on "A Brief Introduction to GPS Photo Linking":
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/06/15/gps_photo.html
via Gene Becker (http://www.fredshouse.net/)
Posted by: sfisher at July 12, 2004 03:50 AM
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