Re: [backstage] Flickr Photo Map...

2006-11-10 Thread Dave Cross
Martin Belam wrote: and somebody Sapnish could sort our my errant understanding of Madrid, where I'm not sure if my Real Madrid photos are hovering over their ground or Atleticos - http://www.flickr.com/map/madrid I'm not Spanish, but I can't see any of your photos around the Bernabeu Stadiu

Re: [backstage] Flickr Photo Map...

2006-11-10 Thread Rhys Jones
Up to a point, it's also bilingual: http://www.flickr.com/map/abertawe http://www.flickr.com/map/caerdydd Though Caerfyrddin, = Carmarthen, doesn't give me anything. Still, I'm very impressed. Rhys -- http://cysyllta.blogspot.com/ | http://www.wibsite.com/wiblog/backburner/ - Sent via the back

Re: [backstage] Flickr Photo Map...

2006-11-10 Thread Gordon Joly
At 17:20 +0100 10/11/06, Martin Belam wrote: Now a useful feature would be the ability to drag someone's incorrectly placed photo across the map to the right spot. Well, maybe who's data is it anyway? http://www.flickr.com/groups/gwl-geotagged/ has no maps, as yet, but does have a intere

RE: [backstage] Signup now! BBC Backstage London Christmas Bash - Sat 9th Dec

2006-11-10 Thread Ian Forrester
Hi All, If your thinking about signing up some time during the weekend, I would suggest you forget about that idea. We're almost at 300 people signed up! Sign up now and save yourself a lot of pain later :) Ian Forrester || backstage.bbc.co.uk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [backstage] Flickr Photo Map...

2006-11-10 Thread Brendan Quinn
it has a bit under the copyright line that says "taken in london, england [map]" so presumably the creator, or someone else, went and clicked on that place in the map. Once you have a lat/long pair, it doesn't matter whether you use a postcode, area name, box drawn on a picture, or something

RE: [backstage] Flickr Photo Map...

2006-11-10 Thread Jason Cartwright
Not sure what you mean, but I'll attempt to answer the question anyhow :-).   I believe it only uses photos that users have geotagged using Flickr's geotagging system - therefore does not try and derive a location from the text tags.   This section of the help suggests that too... http://www.

Re: [backstage] Flickr Photo Map...

2006-11-10 Thread James Boardwell
well - "you're looking at all geo-tagged photos in london" is a bit misleading / ambiguous.  wouldn't it be better to pull out the geo data and then use the semantic data [words] of places etc? that would at least allow for some value on the photos themselves. they could then say with greater conf

Re: [backstage] Flickr Photo Map...

2006-11-10 Thread Andrew Disley
On 10 Nov 2006, at 16:09, James Boardwell wrote:is there any pref given to the data?  i.e. geodata / celldata over tags: lodon, greenpark? is it possible to tell?  From the page itself:"You're looking atAll geotagged photos in London."

RE: [backstage] Flickr Photo Map...

2006-11-10 Thread Brendan Quinn
I think that's a fluke, it looks like they just use some kind of best-guess-based-on-popularity thing: http://www.flickr.com/map/cambridge gives me Boston rather than the university town north of London. http://www.flickr.com/map/cambridge+UK works, though. Brendan. -Original Message- Fr

Re: [backstage] Flickr Photo Map...

2006-11-10 Thread Martin Belam
Now a useful feature would be the ability to drag someone's incorrectly placed photo across the map to the right spot.That way I could stop greyhounds winning races a good bus ride away from Walthamstow's dog stadium - http://www.flickr.com/photos/emsef/227626652/ - and somebody Sapnish could sort

Re: [backstage] Flickr Photo Map...

2006-11-10 Thread James Boardwell
is there any pref given to the data?  i.e. geodata / celldata over tags: lodon, greenpark? is it possible to tell?  On 11/10/06, Jason Cartwright < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think the pages is a limitation of the technology, and perhaps ausability 'feature' for showing that there is actually more

RE: [backstage] Flickr Photo Map...

2006-11-10 Thread Chris Sizemore
wow, this one blows me away: http://www.flickr.com/map/birmingham does it know I'm geoIP'd in the UK? is anyone in the states right now? does this URL show you birmingham, alabama or brum? best-- --cs -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [backstage] Flickr Photo Map...

2006-11-10 Thread Jason Cartwright
I think the pages is a limitation of the technology, and perhaps a usability 'feature' for showing that there is actually more results than the map can comfortably show. When you move around the map, and land in one place the JS fires off a request to the API method "flickr.photos.search" [1] pass

[backstage] Flickr Photo Map...

2006-11-10 Thread Tom Loosemore
http://www.flickr.com/map/london/ Nice... Though I don't understand the logic behind the 'pages' approach - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail

RE: [backstage] Signup now! BBC Backstage London Christmas Bash - Sat 9th Dec

2006-11-10 Thread Ian Forrester
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RE: [backstage] Signup now! BBC Backstage London Christmas Bash - Sat 9th Dec

2006-11-10 Thread David Shaw
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RE: [backstage] Signup now! BBC Backstage London Christmas Bash - Sat 9th Dec

2006-11-10 Thread Daniel Morris
Is it okay for groups outside of london to do the same? GeekUp would love to be associated, will pass on the word to the folks up here... Cheers -dan > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Kerry > Sent: 10 November 2006 13:50 > To:

Re: [backstage] Signup now! BBC Backstage London Christmas Bash - Sat 9th Dec

2006-11-10 Thread Robert Kerry
Hi Ian, LondonSEO (http://londonseo.org) would love to be part of this event. Could you list us with the groups attending on http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2006/10/bbc_backstage_l.html? I'll post a link to the registration form on our site. Cheers, Rob On 10/11/06, Ian Forrester <

[backstage] Signup now! BBC Backstage London Christmas Bash - Sat 9th Dec

2006-11-10 Thread Ian Forrester
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