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Timelapse of Edits on Open Street Map

“An animation showing edits to the OpenStreetMap.org project during 2008. OpenStreetMap is a wiki-style map of the world and this animation displays a white flash each time a way is entered or updated. Some edits are a result of a physical local survey by a contributor with a GPS unit and taking notes, other edits are done remotely using aerial photography or out-of-copyright maps, and some are bulk imports of official data.”

The collaborative web at it’s finest. These guys rock!

[read more at Vimeo | and support Open Street Map]

Automatic Geotagging Flickr Bike

Gina Trapani has put together a sweet bike that automatically geotags pictures and uploads them to flickr on the fly. Saweeet!

“I am an Electra Townie beach cruiser bicycle equipped with a solar-powered cameraphone in waterproof housing mounted to my handlebars. When I’m in motion, the phone snaps a photo every 60 seconds and automatically uploads it to Flickr all geotagged. Check out my ride map here:

www.flickr.com/photos/ginas_bike/map/

Yahoo made me, Gina rides me around, and my name is Carmen (as in Electra and Where in the world is—San Diego).”

[Flickr Set created by Gina Trapani]

Most Useful Thing Ever – Location Aware To Do List

OmniFocus on your iPhone or iPod touch. Synchronized with your Mac via .Mac or WebDAV. Live. Automatically. Over EDGE or WiFi. Location aware:





OmniFocus for the iPhone brings task management to your fingertips. Keep track of actions by project, place, person, or date. Bring up a shopping list, agenda items to discuss at work, tasks for home, and any other lists you need.

Using your location, OmniFocus can create a custom list of actions to complete nearby. Buying groceries? OmniFocus can show you the closest grocery store and create an instant shopping list.

Capture tasks anywhere, anytime with OmniFocus: you can enter text, take a picture, or even make a quick voice recording.

Synchronize OmniFocus with your Mac using the OS X version available separately from omnigroup.com/omnifocus.

[43Folders | Omnifocus iPhone Version]

Geospatial Reality Indexing

[Youtube Video 1 | Youtube Video 2 | Earthmine]