Published by kyle on 17 Aug 2008
It would appear that Google has decided that their map data for the Isle of Man isn’t good enough, and now allow everyone to edit it through their MapMaker system. Several things spring to mind… firstly that OpenStreetmap has great coverage of the island, and secondly, why doesn’t Google want to re-use the OSM data? It’s already freely available under Creative Commons licensing. I fail to understand their method of thinking here.
Published by kyle on 15 Jul 2008
It’s probably already been covered, but my 30 seconds of Google-Fu hasn’t turned anything up so bear with me…
Take one OpenMoko phone, a geolocation service like Fire Eagle, an online celltower database such as CellDB, and some code to use those lovely d-bus bindings, and you could have a location reporting service that’s easy on the battery and mostly precise in urban areas. If your area isn’t covered by CellDB, then run around with the OpenMoko GPS reciever online for a while to report celltower locations, and you’re sorted.
Use all of the above to create services like Socialight, location based Twittering, rough geotagging for photos (courtesy of Flickr and FireEagle [both Yahoo companies]) , pre-emptive OSM tile downloads, Asterisk routing - you could even implement ex-girlfriend logic to it all, if she were to have a similar device 
Well, I’m sure someone has thought of this already, but I thought I would commit ideas to storage just in case. Once my FreeRunner arrives, I know what I’ll be working on
Published by kyle on 09 Apr 2008
It’s been a long time coming, but Flickr have finally done it. Welcome to Flickr Video!
Published by kyle on 28 Jan 2008
Recently, having almost completed the spec on HTML5, the WHATWG have announced that they are to commence work on the next biggest thing to hit humanity… The Bible.
With updates to the ten commandments, the new Bible5 will also be RFC 2119 compliant, and promises to bring us closer to a law abiding society than ever before. Something to look out for methinks.
Published by kyle on 26 Nov 2007
For those that may find this sort of thing useful, I’ve started keeping a daily dump of the Glasgow area of the Openstreetmap database around here. Also in the OSM directory will be a weekly dump of the Glasgow area.
Published by kyle on 04 Oct 2007
BT and FON have joined forces, and now it would seem that BT are inviting all their broadband subscribers to share their wifi through FON. I’m unsure if this means that BT are updating the Homehub firmware, or figuring out another way of deploying it, but it’s a good move towards ‘free’ community wi-fi however they go about it. I’ve always been a believer in paying once for your net access, and then being able to access the net from any location. Fon goes a long way towards this, and it’s nice to see BT partnering up to provide such a service.
Published by kyle on 19 Sep 2007
A while back I wrote briefly about the new TV series based on the Belle De Jour blog. Well, it’s about to hit the screens. ITV2 has a run down on the series here
Published by kyle on 04 Sep 2007
For a while now it’s been desirable to have one Mediawiki installation, with multiple virtualhost installations using that as a base. There are other ways, but I found this method to suit our situation quite nicely. There are instructions at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_code_layout but they’re old and out of date. A lot of the text has been taken from our documentation, so it may require some imagination.
Published by kyle on 15 Jul 2007
Ok people…
For a while now I’ve used Gallery2 - ever since it came out actually. Before then, I used Gallery1. You can see the pattern. I now have 17GB of files and am starting to feel the pinch.
Someone sell the Flickr idea to me. Is it better than Gallery2, worse? Pros, cons? It’s gotten to the stage that I am no longer uploading photographs to the website due to the space requirements. Will Flickr save my day?
Published by kyle on 13 Jul 2007
Having just ditched WPVideo in favour of CoolPlayer, I can finally embed Ogg Theora files into my blog entries! So here’s a short list of updates…
RoombaCam
AJAX Talk
Climbing Cats
Can’t watch Ogg Theora files on Windows? Try downloading and installing this codec installer from Illiminable
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