June 2005
Intermediate to advanced
568 pages
24h 7m
English
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Chapter 9, Mapping with Other People
#96 Share Geo-Photos on the Web
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A file containing the physical locations of wireless access points, either pub-
lished by a community network group or by an organization like Intel’s
PlaceLab, allows you to do approximate location sensing. An RSS feed con-
taining definite addresses for local events—fundraisers in bars, yard sales,
political meetups—can be geocoded and added to the model.
Route finding and public transport planning is harder. Sadly, TIGER/Line,
being a product of the U.S. Census Bureau, which is more concerned with
identifying places than finding places, doesn’t contain any information
about one-way streets, so you can’t make route plans with it—at least not
safe ones.
Interactive Interfaces
Given a set of spatial graphs, either contained in a flat file or available via a
web-service interface, a bot or agent can present a “conversational” view of
the world model. Source code and advice for RDF bots that will allow you to
wander around a spatial graph model are also available from http://space.
frot.org/.
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#96
Share Geo-Photos on the Web Hack #96
Share your geo-referenced images with the web-wide world in various
forms.
Once, with some help from “Georeference Digital Photos” [Hack #10], you’ve
gotten the hang of producing georeferenced photos, you’ll want to take the
next step by publishing them to your web site or to other collaborative ...
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