User talk:CaptainSpam

Yay, a new wiki person. Go forth and geohash! P.S. It's bad wiki manners to upload a photograph to the main page before you have finished your expedition report. We forgive you this time because you're new, but please write one up, here. -Robyn 01:41, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Ah, sorry, my mistake. Said writeup is en route as we type (and as soon as I get the other pictures edited and uploaded). CaptainSpam 01:55, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Awesome. Occasionally people upload pictures and just disappear. Also the main page updates at intervals, so if someone links a picture and then does the report, the link on the main page can remain bad for a few hours. Plus why put a picture on the main page if there is nothing for people to find out about when they click on it. I'm glad you're sticking around. Lots of new people on the wiki lately. How dod you find out about geohashing? -Robyn 01:59, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

The usual way, really. Reading xkcd. :-) And then writing a Geohashing Android app, which I finally got the chance to give a full test to today. Nice to be here! -CaptainSpam 02:04, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

There we go! One writeup posted, complete with pictures! I noticed too late that the pictures were supposed to be categorized, too; thanks for catching that. -CaptainSpam 02:23, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Praise for the geohashdroid.

Woo! Yay! Houpla! Excellent tool. I love it.

Some suggestions for the roadmap (no matter how far away):

• Google maps routing from source to geohash (for that approach)
• Automatic saving of tracklogs
• EXIF tagged photos (actually I would assume they are already?)
• Automatically appending short messages to the wiki
• Automatically uploading photos and inserting them to the gallery.

Hey, I might even help coding once I find my way with the android. -- relet 12:28, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

• I can't quite do map routing, I'm afraid. Part of the developer agreement forbids me from using Google Maps to plot a route like that. Probably something to do with the deal Google has with whoever gives them their street information, I'd guess.

I guess it's time for a decent OpenStreetMap/PyRoute port or something. :D -- relet 14:26, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

• A tracklog? Like, remembering the path you took to a given hash point? Hm. That might be an interesting idea, and perhaps not too difficult (later on), now that I have the database calls in place...

Yup. Like the ones that are being posted to the wiki all the time. ;) GPX or KML format or something along these semi-standard lines. -- relet 14:26, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

• The entire picture-taking stuff is next on my list, actually, right after "Quick change to a nearby graticule" and "Automatically pick whatever graticule has the closest point". So, yep, eventually there'll be EXIF-tagged photos! And hopefully I'll have it upload to the wiki directly from the phone!

Woo! -- relet 14:26, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

• Appending short messages to the wiki is also in the pipeline, though that'll probably come after picture-taking and other stuff.

More woo! -- relet 14:26, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

But, thanks! Glad you're liking it! :-) CaptainSpam 14:03, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

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I was wondering if I could nudge you to include a quick INSTALL readme in the source tree, or in the wiki. Would I have to create a new project before checking out your source, or did you just not check in some files required for building the app? TIA, -- relet 14:22, 10 August 2009 (UTC)