Few thoughts:
Could utilize the mapping system if the photos come in with lat/lon in the metadata.
If no geo info then set lat,lon to null island and use a javascript header include to disable the map if it detects lat,lon is 0,0.
Could parse metadata on upload of photo to determine if there's geo information and unhide the map to allow users to tweak.
InfoWindow plugin could be tweaked to provide thumbnails in map pop-up bubble for geolocated pictures.
Custom forms could be used to capture additional info about the image pulled from metadata (exposure, camera type, etc.)
Fun idea, I'd be happy to get together to brainstorm as well.
george
George Chamales
Rogue Genius LLC
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Chris Blow
<unthinkingly@...> wrote:
Hello,
Would anyone be interesting in collaborating on an instagram clone built in ushahidi?
I think it would be a good exercise because it could leverage the native mobile clients / or be a cool HTML5 mobile thing — but mostly I want it to be extremely streamlined and customized just to photos. We could hide virtually ever feature and carefully craft the few things we do expose. It could be ridiculously minimalist and, if I could just snap and upload, I would use it every day. It doesn't have to be a perfect instagram clone, just an easy to setup photosharing hub with a one-click experience.
Perhaps it could be useful to corporate teams, or geeky families, or friendly darknets and people of the underground. (It would not have the huge instagram social network, but I'm attracted to the idea of a smaller hub of a few people ... :)
One problem we talked about at the meetup last in SF was the fact that Ushahidi proper is not really appropriate for day to day use. Also it is just not fun to think about disaster apps all the time. But we know that, in disasters, people use what they are used to. So maybe this would be something that would help bridge use between normal days and things are on fire days.
I think I really want to work on something with ushahidi that is just 100% fun this year.
I was reminded of the checkins feature which we were playing with at SXSW last year. That theme is freaking excellent. But I don't use checkin apps. (But I do use the hell out of instagram.) Is that theme still active? Would it make sense for the ushahidigram theme to be a fork or extension of that one?
It should be trivial to build most of it, since it is largely a subset of features. And the social features (which are in Instagram but not Ushahidi) are quite simple.
Anyway, I am eager to make another theme in sass (CSS) and to work out my html5 brain-muscles. I went ahead and started pushing to a repository last night. Could use help with the mobile version. Anyone done an any mobile HTML5 features yet? If not, this would be a cool ways to start on a few features without rewriting all the JS and HTML at once .... I started pushing here: https://github.com/unthinkingly/ushahidigram would be happy to see a fork and some contributors.
Or just tell me what you think please!
c
PS: Also, since most photosharing sites are generally run by assholes from Yahoo now, I want a way to buffer and broker my photos before they get sent to to them (eg flickr, instagram). Kind of like this brokers to foursquare: http://nearfuturelaboratory.com/2012/01/22/privatesquare
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