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]

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

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

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

RE: [backstage] Flickr Photo Map...

2006-11-10 Thread Jason Cartwright
://www.flickr.com/help/organizr/#200 J From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James BoardwellSent: 10 November 2006 16:10To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.ukSubject: Re: [backstage] Flickr Photo Map... is there any pref given to the data? i.e. geodata / celldata over tags: lodon

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

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

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