Technical notes

[Slowhatch]

The street view trike is accepting nominations. The examples on the page include a TAR connection. 

[georgiapeach]

Oh FUN!! What should we vote for??

[Slowhatch]

Twitter searching: some general advice and syntax.

[Boingo]

   Hey puddin, turns out you don't really need an external EXIF viewer... that capability is already built into the Microsoft OS (but we already knew that, right  ).  The steps shown below only work if the "original" picture file "actually" contains EXIF data.

For "limited" EXIF data:

Open Windows Explorer, then:

In XP, hover the mouse pointer over the picture file name and the Date/Time taken and Camera info will appear.

In Vista, hover the mouse pointer over the picture file name and only the Date taken info will appear.

In Windows 7, hovering the mouse doesn't do anything, rather, click-once on the picture file name and the Date taken info will appear at the bottom of the window. (Interesting, it even allows you to change the date).

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For FULL EXIF data do the following:

Open Windows Explorer, then:

In XP, right-click the file, click Properties -> Summary -> Advanced
in Vista, right-click the file, click Properties -> Details
in Windows 7, right-click the file, click Properties -> Details

And yes, an external EXIF viewer would do multiple file quicker... but that's not the point...  

[puddin]

I know the right click thing Boingo but don't trust the data it gives me 
The hover thing doesn't work for me 

[Slowhatch]

Streetview imagery update today for Mexico: Mexico City, Monterrey, Cancun, and a few other cities (you might remember this). There's also a new player in streetview called Mapplo. It wants to be pre-eminent in Latin America, and its preview shows a few areas of Buenos Aires; the trouble is, they're using their own algorithims rather than borrowing Google or Mapjack, and I found the preview to be slow and rather buggy.

[Slowhatch]

Some improvements to Google Translate detailed here.

[georgiapeach]

oooh way cool! Thanks!!

[Slowhatch]

Google Labs is previewing Google Swirl, which is a mashup of their Similar Image search and their Wonder Wheel. Only a limited number of search terms are available in the preview, but oddly Prague map is there. The nodes are centered around image themes; click on a node and the wheel pops up. Not sure how useful it is to our purposes, but it's interesting to play with.

[georgiapeach]

What's a wonder wheel?? Is there wasabi involved?


Oh wow!! It makes me dizzy but I LOVE it!!