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Category location
The location field(s) describe the geographic location of a specific MicroContent Item. This location can be encoded as a geographic longitude and latitude, or as an extended place name.
19 Sep 2007
Listphile
I started playing with the Listphile service. This service allows a user to create and manage Lists of Items. One can create either some standard lists, such as text, people lists, video lists, images lists and an atlas. Or one can add fields at will to create one's own list. In order to experiment a bit, I create a list with sundials. I added some fields to the standard atlas list to suit my need.
This service offers many features of desktop MicroContent Clients, so I will discuss the service using that checklist.
The first check is whether the Items in Listphile are MicroContent. Indeed these Items support structure, are flexible (one can extend them) and offer some MicroWeb possibilities through links. There are standard fields, such as titles, descriptions and tags. And each Item has a permalink.
The interface consists of only 2 web-pages: a View-pane and a Items-pane. The View-pane shows a single Item, the location is shown on a map. The Items-pane can be set to maps, lists or thumbnails mode. There are limited sorting possibilities. A separate page is available for a tag cloud.
The service has standard Item functions for viewing, adding, editing and deleting Items. There are only limiting functions for a List itself (editing title, address, etc.).
There are only limited functions for importing an exporting, i.e. no importing and exporting only as RSS and embedded Lists.
The fact that this service is on Internet allows to add some news features. A List can be a social List. This means that multiple authors can work on a single List (still have to check this out). And to help here one has the possibility to see authors and what has been edited. There is some moderation and access control. It is also possible to comment on an Item or author.
I miss the import and export possibilities. I would like to exporting as KML and OPML. I am now locked in. The service is still in beta and I did see some minor errors, but overall it works great.
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11 Sep 2007
HoudahGeo
I have been playing a bit with HoudahGeo. This application allows the user to add geographic coordinates to images. For this the user only has to select an image and move the pointer around on a globe (bases on Google Maps). The images can be taken from the iPhoto library or a plain image file can be imported.
Once an image has been geotagged, the location can be exported as Spotlight tags, as EXIF info. Also the images can be exported to Flickr and to Google Earth as kmz file. The app also has support for GPS tracks (can not try that out).
I have mixed feelings about this application. I rather have something that is integrated with iPhoto. I do the Flickr exporting already there. HoudahGeo creates new sets for images with geocodes, but I already have those sets in iPhoto. The export as kmz-file is very nice.
Well I am still grasping with my workflow around locations. I am really waiting for camera producers to integrate GPS.