Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Resurrecting TubeMappr
After the success of getting Gig Taggr up and running, I thought I’d dust off another little tool I worked on ages ago. Tube Mappr was a very basic experiment for me to explore the Flickr and Google Maps APIs. It’s not ‘useful’ in the way that Gig Taggr is, nor is it anywhere near as complex, but it was fun at the time.
I came across map data for the London Underground over at Wikimedia Commons one day, and, coupled with the (then) recent full-scale rollout of geotagging support on Flickr, I had the idea for Tube Mappr. It’s a simple script that plots Tube stations on a map, and clicking on a station displays random Flickr photos tagged with the name of the station.
The curious thing which I’m now realising is that Tube Mappr makes absolutely no use of the Flickr geo stuff (neither data nor functionality), but i’m pretty sure it was part of the motive.
