Geocoding

I was just talking about geocoding and look what Anil came across............

microsoft's geotagged image database. an experimental research project run by the Interactive Visual Media Group at Microsoft Research [anil dash's daily links]

I just tried the web interface which was a little pokey - need to download the client, but these guys are obviously pushing the edge of the envelope. Very cool. Check out the list of links on the WMMX.org site including this one to a Kodak Travel Photologue of a woman's hike of the Appalachian Trail.

It looks like Microsoft has built "MediaLab West" in Redmond - oh to have 8 billion dollars in the bank! The resumes of the people in the Interactive Visual Media Group are impressive, Cambridge, Carnagie Mellon, RPI, Yale, MIT Media Lab........


Great links to some amazing pictures

A Gallery of Panoramic Images From Around the Web [New York Times: Technology]

Panoramic photography has been around for a while. There was a lot of hype in the mid-90's with various capture and stitching approches and products. I remeber a Canon digital camera I bought even came with a panorama software-maker product. Will group photoblogs create a new opportunity for generating panoramic photos? What if you were able to take lots of pictures from different people of the same event from different perspectives and stitch them together? I know, neat idea - what's the business? There's some VC & DOD money flowing into imaging analysis technologies for both still images and video being used for forensics and national security applications.