Archive for June, 2006

A 3D Interface To Your Travels

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

When reviewing TripTracker, people often mistake our map interface for Google Maps. Fact is, we developed the AJAX code ourselves. We care a lot about the presentation layer and wanted to have full control over how the photo gallery interacts with the map. (Not to mention that acquiring and processing hi-res satellite imagery [...]

Maps Now Speak GeoRSS

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

We recently changed the format of the XML files that the map interface uses to display trips. While it is not really a user-visible change, it will open up new possibilities for viewing and exporting your travel journals.
The format we use now is GeoRSS — Geographically Encoded Objects for RSS feeds. GeoRSS is [...]

Importing Photos from Flickr

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

Flickr users can now create trips from photos hosted on Flickr, instead of uploading original photos from their computer. This will save you some bandwith [and hopefully save us some disk space ].
The feature should be especially appealing to those that already have geo-data embedded in their Flickr photos. The [...]