Flickr Support
Loren M. Lang
commands to request a list of all photos that are or are not Geo-Tagged
as well as way to retrieve Exif data and retrieve or set Geo Location of
a photo. With Twitter, FourSquare, Facebook, and Google Latitude
working, it shouldn't be too hard to get Flickr support up and running.
What all are you looking for in Flickr support Grant?
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Loren M. Lang
auth dubbed FlickrAuth. It's somewhere in-between OAuth 1.0 and 2.0
security wise, it uses signatures like OAuth 1.0 instead of passing a
plain-text secret like 2.0 uses, but it uses much weaker cryptography
and is subject to replay-attacks like OAuth 2.0 and so always requires
SSL. It also means we would need to set up another signing service like
we have for OAuth 1.0 if we wish to avoid embedding our application keys
in the Apps we distribute. Luckily, it's weaker use of cryptography
means I can easily implement it directly instead of requiring another
third-party library.
Grantisimo
What I'm looking for is to be able to upload pictures from the app and to be able to glean my geodata from what I've already tagged on my account.
-Grantisimo-
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Loren M. Lang
> What I'm looking for is to be able to upload pictures from the app and
> to be able to glean my geodata from what I've already tagged on my account.
Do you want to be able to geo-tag photos already on Flickr, but not yet
geo-tagged, or just to geo-tag photos that have not been uploaded yet?
Geo-tagging comes in two steps, the first is to collect a database of
places where you've been. Essentially, it just a list of time stamps
and the GPS coordinates of where you were at that time. The second step
is to scan a list of photos and add GPS data to those lacking it using
the time the picture was taken to find the nearest GPS coordinates. The
default settings of PhotoCatalog is to use the nearest time stamp
regardless of how far apart it is from the time the photo was taken.
This may not be a good idea if the nearest time stamp recorded is 2 days
after the photo was taken. I am adding a feature to limit that and only
geo-tag photos if within a certain time frame. What do you think it
should be? 5 minutes? 15 minutes? An hour?
Also, in order to to fill the database of GPS coordinates, PhotoCatalog
can use InstaMapper or any kind of GPS that will generate CSV or GPX
files. It can also use Geo-location data from Twitter or FourSquare.
The Geo-location data that FourSquare provides is the location of the
venue you checked-in as opposed to your actual location like Twitter
records. I will be adding to that support for recording GPS coordinates
from existing photos in order to tag new photos lacking any GPS data.
Do you use a regular camera or just a cellphone mostly for picture taking?
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> -Grantisimo-
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> Sent from my Samsung GALAXY S
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>> On Nov 1, 2010 1:07 PM, "Loren M. Lang" <lor...@north-winds.org
>> <mailto:lor...@north-winds.org>> wrote:
>>
>> Looking over Flickr API which seems quite extensive. They have API
>> commands to request a list of all photos that are or are not
>> Geo-Tagged as well as way to retrieve Exif data and retrieve or set
>> Geo Location of a photo. With Twitter, FourSquare, Facebook, and
>> Google Latitude working, it shouldn't be too hard to get Flickr
>> support up and running.
>>
>> What all are you looking for in Flickr support Grant?
>> --
>> Loren M. Lang
>> lor...@north-winds.org <mailto:lor...@north-winds.org>
Grantisimo
I think a variable that the user can set for the timeframe would be best rather than a set time. I know that there are a number of pictures I took on my trip back from FL that are close minute-wise, but I traveled quite a bit.
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