Its close... It has all the mapping technology. It has a rating system, but its not robust against attack. It has no way of requesting images from a particular timeframe, but that may be a symptom of the fact that there are few images here. Why build what you can use for free? I can focus on the phone side of things and replace this site if it doesn't evolve in the right way as things progress.

GeoSnapper - GPS Photography

] Mei's cellphone can tag each photo she takes with the
] latitude/longitude coordinates. Last night she tried
] sending a geotagged jpeg for the first time, so this
] morning I started researching how to get the coordinates
] out of the jpeg. It turns out that the data is stored in
] EXIF headers.

My last request didn't garner any responses, but here is another one. This poster claim's their cellphone automatically imbeds GPS data into every picture. I'm sceptical. The phone brand is never mentioned. There are a few software applications out there that will take "track" data from a gps receiver combined with timestamped pictures from a digital camera and stamp all the images with the GPS info. Also there are high end digital cameras with built in GPS receivers that will do this kind of tagging. But I've never heard of a cellphone that does this.

In any event, it would be interesting to see what information is being stored in your various camera phone pictures. Take a cam-phone pic, send it to me, and lemme extract the data.

This page also has some links to some interesting geographical photo blogs. None of them offer exactly what I'm looking for, but all of them come close. I'll post about what I've found later.

Request for Cell phone cam images

] "If you're 15 and angry at your dad, you want to go and
] break something. But the biggest part of hacking is
] creation," notes "Acidus," a speaker at a Friday panel on
] intellectual property and technology.

The line that got be the biggest applause was "Do you think Marconi and Tesla could have built the radio if the telegraph was a little black box you couldn't open? We are selling out our future inventors and innovators for the short terms profits of the RIAA."

USATODAY.com - Hackers have HOPE

] We got to listen to Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple
] computer and hacker legend speak today with his HOPE
] keynote.

This speech has something I had never seen in countless shows about Woz or Apple. It talks about *why* he did and thought the way he did, as well as how he taught kids in school.

Steve Wozniak HOPE Keynote for download

There is a service on the net for bloggers that lets you post your GPS coordinates in your blog and submit it. Then people can surf for weblogs geographically. Does anyone recall what thats called?

Does anyone know of any open source, free, or reasonably priced mapping software solutions for the server side? Basically something that will let me put a dot on a map at a particular Lattitude/Longitude and then display the map on a web page?

Acidus wrote:

] "Fuck you and your adjectives" -Rattle

You forgot a couple of mine...

"Is this the 'bad part' of town?"

"Nick, you realise that if you were a politician your career would now be over."

RE: Quotes From HOPE 5

] Don't be so quick to toss out your old PCs, fax machines
] or digital cameras -- office supply retailer Office Depot
] is offering to recycle one electronic product a day for
] free all through the summer, according to a published
] report Tuesday.

Office Depot offers to recycle electronics for free - Jul. 13, 2004

] By raiding nature's tool cabinet, researchers have
] developed a potentially faster and more practical version
] of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), itself a
] foundation of modern genetics.
]
] The breakthrough, called helicase-dependent amplification
] (HDA), could result in small, hand-held devices which
] enable doctors to test blood samples directly in the
] surgery and forensic teams to detect a suspect's DNA at a
] crime scene.

nano says:

I am going to go ahead and file this one under "Damnit, why didn't I think of that". This is a discovery that someone could have made ~25 years ago. Helicases were discovered in 1976, and Mullis presented PCR to the world in the early 80s. If Kary had of thought about adding helicases to his tube of nucleotides and polymerase, it would have saved alot of work for grad students in the 80s (of course, just the fact that he came up with PCR already saved grad students from alot of work, but whose counting). PCR sans helicases require temperature changes in a cyclic fashion in order to make the copies of the DNA. Before the invention of the thermal cycler (god bless this machine), grad students would have to move tubes from water bath to water bath by hand (keep in mind that to make enough copies to work with, the PCR reaction has to be cycled through all required temps ~25-30 times, which resulted in hours of moving tubes every couple of minutes to a different water bath (once again, god bless the thermal cycler).
Adding helicases to the mix was a genious idea - could be nobel worthy. With helicases, the reaction can take place at 37 degrees, which means that PCR just got portable, and cheaper too (helpful for labs without alot of money to buy a thermal cycler). My hats off to these scientists....its always those discoveries that were sitting right in front of our faces for years that are sometimes the most amazing.

New Scientist

] "There is an opportunity here because the
] oligonucleotides contain a lot of information which can
] be used to track and monitor what is being done with
] them."

A very interesting article on EE Times on the Bill Joy tip.

EE Times -Experts worry that synthetic biology may spawn biohackers

] Citing problems with truancy and youth violence, the Los
] Angeles City Council on Wednesday approved an ordinance
] restricting the hours during which minors can visit
] Internet cafes and requiring the shops to install video
] cameras for security.

I wonder how much of this is real and how much of this is the typical pattern of mindless news media sensationalism feeding back into a government which clamps down on youth activities because it has nothing better to do and no political reason to think twice.

Of the cyber cafes in LA, what percentage of them actual have a real problem with violence. Is this any different from the number of problems at video arcades, non internet coffee shops, or other youth hang outs?

"86 percent of the people arrested at cybercafes were juveniles and 93 percent were for truancy or curfew."

So in other words there is almost no problem here? All that this statistic tells me is that young people like to play video games. Curfew isn't illegal for adults. Personally, I don't believe it ought to exist at all. In any event, if you already have a curfew, which you are enforcing, then why do you need a new curfew law for internet cafes? What percentage of these cases were truancy?

In either case this is simply people hanging out at the cafe when ditching school or "when they ought to have been in bed." Oh please, please, nanny state, save us from this horror.

How many people hanging out at bars in Los Angeles have been arrested in the past year? How many for violence? Why don't you require bars to have closed circuit television?

Los Angeles clamps down on cybercafes | CNET News.com