geotagging

How to map geo location based on one or all of these services.

I'm looking for a solution to map one or all of the following Flickr, twitter, vimeo, by exif, keywords or whatever to google maps. I'm trying to show a map of my location from updating social sites. ...

Geolocated version control?

Much like it's possible to geotag pictures, I wonder if there is a way to automatically geolocate the code associated with a commit - or any changes - in a version control system like SVN? I couldn't find any information about this and I don't know if for example SVN stores the IP address used by the committers, which in most situation...

Getting image metadata in .NET without regards to metadata format

Given a filename, I need to be able to access certain metadata in an image for a (closed source) project I'm currently developing, without regard to how the metadata is stored (that is, Exif, IPTC, or XMP). In particular, I want to access geotagging data. Is there a way of doing this without requiring any third party assemblies or libra...

What is the best way to geotag jpeg-images with python?

I have coordinates from some source and want to tag my jpg files with them. What is the best python library for writing geotags into exif data? ...

How to have markers on a map cluster instead of stack

Hello, my team is trying to resolve an issue with limited time. We have developed a fairly complex map interface on our site to display content (trips, social content, etc). when a user runs a search for "Kayaking San Francisco" for example, the map shows all the kayaking trips in SF, but since they are all geotagged (using geonames.or...

An API to send a text string place, and get text strings back of places nearby

Hi, I'm looking for an API or a combination of API's where I can send "Anjuna, India" and get back a list of places nearby. The data is mostly for "third world" countries, less so for Europe/US. Any suggestions/ideas about how to structure this? ...

Reverse wikipedia geotagging lookup

Wikipedia is geotagging a lot of its articles. (Look in the top right corner of the page.) Is there any API for querying all geotagged pages within a specified radius of a geographical position? Update Okay, so based on lost-theory's answer I tried this (on dbpedia query explorer): PREFIX geo: <http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos...

RSS to KML Overlay

I'm want to display my blog as a Google Map overlay (each post contains geotags). How can I dynamically create a KML overlay from an RSS? Or better, how can I create a loop (PHP) that would display map placemarks according to given geotags? Thank you! ...

Entity resolution for venues and other geo locations

Say I want to build a check-in aggregator that counts visits across platforms, so that I can know for a given place how many people have checked in there on Foursquare, Gowalla, BrightKite, etc. Is there a good library or set of tools I can use out of the box to associate the venue entries in each service with a unique place identifier ...

How to discover whether Geo-tagging is enabled with Twitter / MGTwitterEngine?

Using Matt Gemmell's MGTwitterEngine, how would I find out if the user (that i'm logged in as) has geo tagging enabled? According to the Twitter API, there is a 'geo_enabled' boolean flag, but I can't work out how to interrogate it using MGTwitterEngine. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Geotagging-API-Best-Practice ...

iphone - UIImagePicker overwritting geotagging in photo - fixed in os4?

It is my understanding that currently if you use UIImagePicker to grab a photo, it passes back back a UIImage object which doesn't include any of the geotagging information. I was wondering if it's confirmed that in OS 4 this is fixed? Or any suggestions on where to go look to see if this is fixed? Thanks, Mark ...

Free server solution for strict content photos with geotags

Hi! I would like to create some kind of open free "group" posting of photos with geotags First I thought about Panoramio, but seems there is no API for photos upload. By now I can see only two ways: Flickr - there are groups but you have to approve group membership anyway, or use tags for grouping which is bad for maintenance Cust...

How to Get iPhone Video or Photo's Geotag? Using UIImagePicker

I am building an app that allows user to pick videos/photos from camera or photo library. If picked from photo library, is it possible to access to the video or photo's geotag? Thanks! ...

Storing geo data

Hi I'm using ms sql 2005 to store some latlng data. It is currently being stored in a nvarchar column in the following form - "35.6949965,139.7555035" My questions are. Is this the best way to store this kind of data? If I do store the latlng in this way is it going to come and bite me later, or will it mean just that I will have to do a...

What information is stored in EFIX/JPEG photos taken on the iPhone with geotagging enabled?

I know that some of this data is viewable in iPhoto, such as latitude, longitude, and altitude, but is there more than this available? More specifically I am wanting to get the direction of the image as well, which is part of the EXIF format. Or does something other than geotagging need to be enabled (something to do with the compass)? ...