RoboGeo will let you add latitude, longitude and altitude to the EXIF header of a JPEG image. You can also upload the geotagged photos to Flickr. From Flickr you can post the photo to a blog after you set it up. Check the “blog this” icon above the picture.
Asus announced the release of R2H, the first UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC) equipped with GPS to hit the market it seems. Originally from ZDNet. If you got one around try GPS.Radar from JGUI.
Dash.net might catch your interest: “Dash will set a new industry standard for accurate, up-to-date information that helps alleviate the growing problem of traffic congestion in most major cities”.
And check an interesting interface to Google Maps in MapMyRun, which supports .gpx data upload.
Walking the fine line between code free and free code.
Marc and Sof walking alone searching for clues.
Dark side, White side. Same coin.
Doctrina Acqua, Lapi Azuli, regroup missing pieces of Antropos.
This big animal myself and Man are part of. A Whole.
Unconscious and conscious events group in a single Now.
The things moving around in the water, I become it, it becomes Me.
Solidify it in some form of “lapis azuli”. Lapis Azul.
Aqua pisceana. Christal, crystal.
Becoming solid, a block, unified, crystaline. Christ Line.
Not imobile, but churning points of energy across sections, point all at once.
Crystal structure, a body. Lapis Azul. A collection of bodies in the same axis. flow. Liquid, Solid, Soft, Hardened. Transfusion at its best.
Solid body, become liquid and mold yourself after Body Electromagnetic, lift your self into Aquarius Age. It is Time, Boys.
ZeroOne in San Jose included also an exhibit hosted at the Exploratorium called Cabspotting . Start the Cab Tracker to see the actual movement of the Yellow Cabs around the City, and if they carry passengers or not. Another project mapped wi-fi spots in a PDA.
Mike Schilli has an article in the August issue of Linux Magazine about parsing data from a Garmin eTrex with Perl scripts and displaying its waypoints in Yahoo Maps. The German version of the magazine has the full article, you can try Babelfish for an English translation. You will need a custom cable to read data from the Garmin.
China’s Compass, Europe’s Galileo, Russian’s Glonass, American’s NavStar, Japanese and, Indian cooperation efforts (or their own system), anybody else?
Check out this British sourced post giving out a pretty complete state of the LBS panorama. It does shoot at everyone with reason and tons of wit, sparing the Intel/PlaceLab/Wigle combination.
Interestingly enough, Directions Magazine has a PR from a major implementation of what looks like a pretty useful service. Let’s say a:
“family relocating from Germany to a base in Oklahoma can search for installations related and local services in the area including schools, ATM’s, Pharmacies, parks and other municipal services.”
Developed by eSpatial which provides OGC Web Services, it includes an Ajax interface and uses “NAVTEQ’s Streets and Points of Interest (POI) dataset”. Oracle databases are “used for geocoding and routing.”
This art-science-digital mashup project has been opened for business of “environmental air pollution data gathering”. Public events are scheduled in San Jose Downtown. You can watch a test flight movie at the blog plus schematics, pollution data, pigeons info and a Google map with different color schemes that shows where the city is more or less polluted with their flight tracks.
From the schematics it seems that something like the Siemens XT55 is part of the gear. This is a “tri-band GSM/GPRS-enabled module […] equipped with GPS”. I wonder if the magnetic field generated by this device isn’t strong enough to throw off their sense of direction. Remember reading about a research where magnetic particles were found in the back of pigeons heads. And it seems that men got some of these particles too.
Digital Compass
On the hardware front, Yamaha is making available for use in mobile phones and navigation systems a digital compass with the YAS529, “worlds’ smallest class of three-axis goemagnetic sensor IC chips”.
That is Tupi for “the place where you can see the ocean”.
This shot was taken from what I think is the closest way to see something like that after dropping from the bus. Just go back a bit and behind the parking lot you will see a trail. It will take you to a little wood structure from where you can sunset from.
Trick is, fog rises early so, city is almost always surrounded by moisture. That day the fog almost made into its valley, but the Sun was way too hot for it to sit and cover every little red house built by English engineers.
They arrived end of 1800’s, looked at the problem and built a solution.The trains were supposed to be carried up the 800 meters from sea level along 10 kilometers. How steep? Quite a bit.
Marcio can tell you all about it at the Train Museum that his father, assassinated while driving his locomotive left him as Life’s Work. Today Marcio prays that powered hands will see the benefit of reconnecting the “Baixada Santista” to the elevated downtown life of Sampa, or Sao Paulo for its natives.
There is a commercial, diesel train taking minerals down that line, for exports. But no Litoranea, or line that “paulistas” and visitors can take to explore the City from its best angle.
Angles
For that you might try flying back from Rio. Take the shuttle from Rio to Congonhas in Sao Paulo, and pray for its pilot to take you over the “Serra da Tijuca”. Enjoy the long istmus (?) that follows for miles buffering the land from the tropical Atlatic Ocean. And then, if it comes flying down towards Congonhas right from NE he/she might take you over Cubatao at the closest distance to Sao Paulo’s center.
One day I came thru it as if going inside a womb made out of clouds with the Sun settling behind them.
If you want to help Marcio, here is his phone in Paranapiacaba: 1155 7605-2398 or try ABPF’s numbers [Associacao Brasileira de Preservacao Ferroviaria] for Brazilian Association for Rail Preservation at 55 11 6695-1151. You can also set group visits to Paranapiacaba by calling this number.
Trip
Check the maps at the subway while in Sao Paulo. CPTM is the old, recovered train system and it connects to Metro, the subway. Get one ticket to jump from one system to the other. You can go pretty much anywhere with them. Walk the distance or try buses [EMTU] which are way less predictable, and you don’t need to try that hard. Best way to learn Sampa is walking its streets. Just be street-smart and don’t try unknown areas after dark.
But if you are brave enough to try by yourself, go to Estacao da Luz (close to the Museum of Portuguese Language, recommended) take the CPTM [light brown line in the map image] train to Rio Grande da da Serra all the way to its end and then take the 424 bus, a blue one to Paranapiacaba. It will let you just past the parking lot where the “mirante” hides itself.
Paranapiacaba is down the steep road past the little Church. The city lives for its Winter Festival that just about happened, so during weekdays don’t expect to see many stores and places open, but weekends are better served.
This one was to say the least, cute.
Harrison bridging the technological gap in a well worked plot on Firewall. [BTW, make sure you can read HD-DVD on your next player before jumping the gun on HDMI, 1080i and distractions like those.]
[And here the Spoiller Alert] But this one came with a twist, remember GlobalPetFinder? Yeah, so it seems that fitting a pet with one of those gadgets can be actually, helpful.
