Yeri Tiete

#Geolocation

6 posts tagged Geolocation

Location history heatmap

· Google

Toy of the day. Data since the beginning of time (4-5 years ago), with Latitude. Some places (like Venice, Shanghai) seem to be missing.

Belgium:

belgium

Flanders (small point radius):

flanders small

Antwerp:

antwerp

Antwerp with smaller point radius:

antwerp small

Brussels (small radius):

brussels small

World (medium sized radius):

world

It seems to have some points of when I didn’t have internet (ie Macau, but also China & HK) – but notably less. My transits in India (New Delhi & Mombai) and Russia are vaguely noticeable. Didn’t have internet there either.

Latitude in 30 days views

· Google, Travel

Latitude rocks (although it contains some errors here & there).

 

CountryLatest visit
BelgiumAugust 2012
United KingdomJuly 2012
Czech RepublicJuly 2012
LuxembourgMay 2012
ItalyMay 2012
NetherlandsMarch 2012
FranceMarch 2012
GermanyJanuary 2012
United StatesJanuary 2012
FinlandOctober 2011
Hong KongOctober 2011
ChinaOctober 2011
RussiaMay 2011

Google Latitude

· Google, Misc

Pretty cool. Scary, I'll admit. Giving Google (and whoever else) the power to, well, track you. But nevertheless, pretty cool to see where I have been in 3 days time.
Finally an app that automatically checks you in (don't think other apps a la 4SQ and Gowala do that ? At least, Brightkite, when I used it, didn't do that on iPhone). Now geoloc is becoming useful. I no longer need to take my phone out. My phone is doing it for me.

However, Google, please give the ability to users to add places, and don’t just make us able to check in at businesses. I’m a bit annoyed to check in at my neighbour’s, or at another company in my office.

Oh, and fix automatically check-in feature, it doesn’t work. And loc:on status message while you’re at it! ;)