Hola peeps, Rich and Timothy Caro-Bruce did some cool stuff with gigapan images of wherecamp; thought I'd forward most of his email to the whole list since he said that was ok [ see below after my comments ].
There were some other projects also that were discussed and hacked on - you can see the notes as they are starting to appear and clean themselves up on the http://wherecamp.org page. [ One thing that would be nice is if people could try to list who was IN their session btw ]. Briefly I should say that we had 300 people the first day - exactly meeting expectations surprisingly - with perhaps 50 people camping overnight { 50 or so google tents were set up }. There were 360 t-shirts given away and 300 tents given away total. We were left schwagless. Several projects were worked on; nothing requiring a take-down notice this year (is that good?). 2 lightning talks instead of one - which worked well. Overall it was very smooth - and of course with profuse thanks to everybody who came and helped, to Ryan, our sponsors, Where, Poly9, Platial, SkyHook, Meedan, WhereIGO and of course Google, Dusty, Lior, Nate - the Google API team and everybody else including our conference partner Where 2.0, Brady, Tim and co. Food is always seems especially important so I just wanted to say that whomever made that lasagna back in the Google kitchen has my eternal gratitude. Also its worth mentioning how important Yahoo was to helping this whole process start last year and Joshua for raising it with Yahoo as well in the first place. All in all it was not bad for an event that charges -$43.62 admission [ http://tinyurl.com/6c5cs9 ] :-) . Looking forward to running into the tents on top of mountains this summer. [ See Rich Gibson's comments below ] - anselm ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rich Gibson Date: Tue, May 20, 2008 at 5:08 PM Subject: WhereCamp To: Anselm Hook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hey, (feel free to forward any or all of this message as you feel appropriate) Where camp rocked my world so much. Thank you thank you thank you! Timothy Caro-Bruce hacked up the ability to display gigapans within open layers. He is trying to display _all_ gigapans on one open layer. That would rock! Here is an example of open layers viewing a gigapan: http://tcbxyz.com/gigapan/pans.html?gpid=4882 Change the parameter to view other gigapans. The tiled interface of Google Maps and now Gigapans has massive cool applications beyond maps and imagery. One consequence of tiles is the mostly obvious one that the images you are shown at various zoom levels don't have to be of the same thing... In the open layers approach this leads to a potential slide show approach as you zoom. In the flash interface more of a blending ability is possible. I tried to pay some of my 'camp debt' with pictures and gigapans. This photo is my 'smallest ever useful gigapan.' It is so small that it is below the threshold for uploading to the gigapan site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rich_gibson/2509025865 Here are WhereCamp gigapans: http://gigapan.org/searchGigapansList.php?keywords=wherecamp2008 And here is my 'pimp gigapans' site: http://geocoder.us/gigapan/ Thanks for everything! Rich -- Rich Gibson Chief Scientist (and bottle washer), Locative Technologies http://mappinghacks.com http://geocoder.us http://testingrange.com AIM period3equals -- anselm 415 215 4856 http://hook.org http://makerlab.com
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