GeoTwitterPhotoMashupMappingVideo project

Well... there I was the other day; walking round Soho with my N95 taking Geotagged photos, sending them to Flickr, then to a GoogleMap, while at the same time with my old phone, sending Twitters at the same moment. The aim was to match up the timestamp on the Twitter with the GeoTimeStamp on the uploaded photos to get a GeoTwitterPhoto.

Confused? Fucking hell I was... "Why can't somebody invent one system which does all these things?"... I thought.

Anway - my student GeoFriend Matt Collins has just sent me a site, where one of his friends is experimenting with GeoTwittering, GeoPhotos, GeoVideos.... the works. He's definitely one to watch!

Location Aware Geotag Photo Twitter Project (part 1)

What is the relationship between physical, digital and mental geographies?
Can we record action, word, position and thought all at the same time?
Will we ever be able to rewind reality?

...Today I have mostly been screwing around with my new N95 Gizzmo... It has GPS and everything.

So - here's the first GPS/Geotagging photo expedition. Nothing too crazy, just a walk around Soho, taking a few pics. At the same time I was Twittering from my old phone. I though it would be interesting to mash up the thoughts that I express from twitter with the same moment in space and time as captured in a GeoTagged photo.

At the moment the whole process is very convoluted and only appealing for extreme conceptual techno-geeks; but once we're in a position to make the technology hidden; then I think it's a pretty infectious idea.

After taking the photos on my phone; I upload them to Flickr; then Flickr sends the images to Google Maps. Then Google Maps sends the map to this blog. Simple you would think - but to get it working I had a whole 2 hours of fucking with Flickr, phone and the like before it worked.

Remember - everybody's life is a movie waiting to be made.

So - here's the GoogleMap Mashup:


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And here's my twitters at the time I was taking the photos:



Now I just need to plug one into the other, into the back of my eyes...