An update from the crew at flickr was launched this week in the form of a new, mobile friendly resource. Enter m.flickr.com. also new this week is a “most popular” camera resource. From the flickr blog… We’ve updated our long-dormant and seemingly left-for-dead mobile site with a lot of new stuff. The highlights include recent activity, recent comments, support for Y! ID based login, search, and a new easier to type URL: http://m.flickr.com. As an example, see the GIsuser mobile flickr stream. Interested in knowing what kind of cameraphones people are using most for their moblogging via flickr? You can access this info via http://www.flickr.com/cameras/ A quick look shows us the following cameraphones are the most popular:
Sony Ericsson K750i Nokia N70 Nokia N73 Sony Ericsson K800i Sony Ericsson W800i – More details of these flickr updates can be found on Stuart Butterfield’s flickr blog – See also the GISuser flickr blog
Archives for November 22, 2006
google maps updates… KML within gmaps, Google page creator, path and poly…
Some interesting updates from the gmaps crew recently hit the google maps API weblog. Imagine this… view KML files with google maps…
To view a KML or KMZ file on Maps, just go to Google Maps, and instead of searching for a geographical address like 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, 94043, search for a complete Web address (including the “http://” part) of your KMZ file, like http://kml.lover.googlepages.com/cropcircles.kmz. Also suggested… do you need your own web space to upload some files? Try Google Page Creator. http://pages.google.com/ View entire photo sets as self-contained KMZ files, as exported by Picasa. See more on how to do this via http://hikesandbikes.blogspot.com/2006/10/life-of-geolocated-blog-post.html Finally, path and polygon drawing tools are now in the free November 1 beta of Google Earth. More on the latest beta at http://earth.google.com/earth4-beta6.html – thanks to the gmaps API blog for these updates!