Mapping photos taken with Windows Mobile

re: Mapping photos taken with Windows Mobile

David Stewart — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 04:06:00 GMT

I like was Gregory Torloting said on http://smartnaute.com/?2005/01/13/216-geolocalisez-les-photos-prises-avec-votre-smartphone

C'est expérimental mais ça donne envie...

Which my translator roughly makes into "It's experimental, but that gives desire ..." (in other words, it isn't perfect, but makes you want it!)

re: Mapping photos taken with Windows Mobile

Dan — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 11:34:00 GMT

What a great idea. I think a big problem with moblogging currently is picture context as many users are lazy in describing what their picture is about. Location information mixed in to the picture would give the uninformed viewer more context, this would be a great innovation for moblogging in the future.

Windows Mobile, Flickr, MapPoint, AT&T, and Photoblogging

Jeremy Zawodny's blog — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:43:00 GMT

This is interesting. The Windows Mobile team has combined Flickr's moblogging capabilities with the location data from the AT&ampT network to produce an interesting technology demo. With all that, and a hearty dose of my own .NETCF and a little ASP.NET magic on the backend, it wasn't too hard to create an app that allows me to take a picture and hit "Send" ... Two clicks, and a few seconds later, anyone can look at the website and see the...

re: Mapping photos taken with Windows Mobile

msmobiles.com — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 03:31:00 GMT

Yo, David! You contacted me through web form at msombiles.com. Please contact me also through email at info, @, and then msmobiles.com .

And here please answer: how is this example relevant - not everybody developer has free access to MapPoint Location Server as Microsoft employees have?

Also: could you publish source code of the whole solution with description how to get (trial?) access to MapPoint Location Server ?

PS. Greetings to Steve Lombardi - I have interviewed him in France and teased him in Netherlands ;-)

re: Mapping photos taken with Windows Mobile

julian bond — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 07:55:00 GMT

I feel sure there's some short cuts here. If the phone knew where it was, it could embed lat/long into the EXIF information in the picture. Flickr is then reading EXIF and perhaps could be persuaded to read it automatically. Further on to the website, there are lots of mapping websites that will take GET parameters of Lat/Long.

re: Mapping photos taken with Windows Mobile

David Stewart — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 21:10:00 GMT

Julian: Yeah, the "weakest link" here is how I'm interacting with Flickr. I didn't use their API set, really, just their photo upload post. I tied my hands a little bit by growing this app out of an RSS + MapPoint rendering test I was doing (to map earthquakes). Later, when I realized that there was a GEO tag extension in many other RSS feeds, I make it generic to any RSS with a geo tag. However, Flickr doesn't allow you to modify the RSS output with new namespaces, so I sort of had to do a workaround.

Being less concerned about RSS, I could probably just call Flickr directly and do a cleaner job, but then it would be very Flickr-centric, which I don't really want ... would rather than any properly encoded RSS feed to work -- the trick is getting that enocoding in there!

Also, though, if you had the EXIF in the picture data, then it wouldn't matter how you got the pictures, or from what site, as long as you could *read* the EXIF when you're doing the back-end work, too -- hmm, I just happen to have written a class to read EXIF data from my Nikon D70 that is otherwise generic ... ;-)

re: Mapping photos taken with Windows Mobile

Keni — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:35:00 GMT

This is a way cool app... good job... Could you explain further how you got the Lat/Longs from the Broadcast cells?

re: Mapping photos taken with Windows Mobile

David Stewart — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:49:00 GMT

If you're interested in how the location stuff works, see Chandu's blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/cthota/ as well as the official MS homepage for MapPoint Location Server: http://www.microsoft.com/mappoint/products/locationserver/default.mspx

Moblogging and MLS

Chandu Thota's WebLog — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:24:00 GMT

WWMX integration

Mark Bramley — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 06:36:00 GMT

Hooking this up to the location-based photo sharing site http://wwmx.org/WebClient.aspx would be cool.

re: Mapping photos taken with Windows Mobile

Christian — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 23:48:00 GMT

You mention that you use the AT&T network with the location provider. Is there an AT&T plugin for the location server? I can only find the Sprint and Bell Mobility.

re: Mapping photos taken with Windows Mobile

David Stewart — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 05:24:00 GMT

AT&T Wireless was a trial with MS, I think. Not sure when it will be rolled out.

re: Mapping photos taken with Windows Mobile

John Walker — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 07:57:00 GMT

Dave,

I have the same setup you have...SMT5600 with ATT Wireless service, so if/when you hear about anything regarding ATT's location services, let us know. Also, if you wouldn't mind posting your code, that would be awesome. Thanks.

re: Mapping photos taken with Windows Mobile

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re: Mapping photos taken with Windows Mobile

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