Comments on: Checkmates: Mobile Social Mapping

By: edward

edward — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 18:10:02 +0000

Hi Mikel,
Checkmates will overlay point of interest data from an ATOM feed. This can be seen in the app right now when the user is in the San Diego area. It does do this dynamically but we have not yet exposed the ability to point it at an arbitrary url.

The format of the ATOM GeoRss feed that we use is from http://www.worldkit.org/doc/rss.php

I’ve just noticed that this is your project! Great work!
-edward

By: Mikel

Mikel — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 15:07:46 +0000

“pulls in ATOM Geo feeds and will overlay data onto maps”

That sounds pretty neat, can you expand on that? Does checkmates map GeoRSS feeds on the go?

By: edward

edward — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:23:52 +0000

Nabeel: The expiration is a really good idea for dealing with staleness, thanks.

As for uploading geotagged photos from the phone, you can download Zonetags from our friends at Yahoo Research Berkeley (http://zonetag.research.yahoo.com/zonetag/) . That app is a bit fancier and will detect your location from your GSM cell id. The restriction is that you will need a Symbian powered phone.

By: Nabeel Hyatt

Nabeel Hyatt — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:45:12 +0000

It says something about open APIs that you guys integrated with a Flickr account to get my list of friends, versus the more obvious connection to Yahoo IM to get my list of possible friends.

One thing obviously missing in the Flickr integration is actually being able to take a cameraphone photo and upload the photo properly geotagged, but I’m sure that’s coming.

Another thought was that when you choose “I am here” there should probably be a quick option to allow that to expire. I could imagine clicking on a location and then one of the radial navs comes up saying “How long will you be here? 5 Mins, 30 mins, 2 hours, Indefinetely”

Since one the issues about most location-based applications is staleness.

It’s a sweet application, I hope it gets the green light to keep moving forward.

By: chrisblunt.com

chrisblunt.com — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 00:34:43 +0000

Checkmates…

Checkmates is a mobile + social + mapping app that maps where your friends are geographically. As you move around, your phone plots your position against a streetmap image tile. This image tile is then uploaded to Flickr and geotagged, so your friends …