MPD

Tomorrow, Thomson West is flying me out to Minnesota, where I will be visiting with Ken Ross, etc. through Friday. I’m excited because this is my first business trip ever.

Tonight, I also wanted to mention that I’ve worked a little bit more on my map. After some trouble getting the Flickr REST API working because I didn’t realize that cross-domain xmlhttp requests were not possible, I finally have the site set up so that the photos come from a specified photoset on Flickr. For example, the set that I have summer pictures in is 72157594201283566, so the url you would use to see these on a map is:

http://web.mit.edu/mpdaugh/www/maps/mapPage.html?set=72157594201283566

To see other photosets mapped this way, just replace the number at the end of the url with the set id of your desired set. In order for my application to map the photos, though, they must be geotagged. This means that they must have two tags, one starting with “geo:lat=” and the other starting with “geo:lon=”. Check out one of my photos in the set Summer06 for an example.

Right now, the time scale on the bottom only goes from June-August of this year, but I plan on having it dynamically rescale based on the time of the photos in the input set.

In any case, I probably won’t be able to work on this until next weekend, so let me know if you think it’s interesting, and if so what features you’d like to see. Thanks for your feedback!