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14,000 Geotagged Images of London

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from the mixing-tea-and-pictures dept.

Tim writes "We've just launched the beta version of our new website http://www.london5151.com/ LONDON5151 features over 14,000 images and descriptions of London streets and points of interest, including pubs, bars, restaurants, and shops. The images have been produced using Trek Wireless's patent pending POSIPIX image capture system. All the images are 'geotagged' so they can be viewed in google maps or google earth and used for navigation and driving directions. Later this year we will add coverage of Rome and Barcelona. We also plan to launch a version of the site optimised for mobile devices such as the Apple Iphone. Comments/feedback most welcome to info at london5151.com"

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• Lots of potential

  (Score:2, Interesting)

  by daedlus (1494) on Wednesday May 14, @10:57AM (#2435)

  Interesting. This could be used for good or for awesome. The potential uses of such a large databases of geographically referenced imagery is somewhat equivalent to that of large applications such as Google Street View. That being said having it more easily accessible through a standard web browser with no bells and whistles needed is a definite plus. I just hope that the back-end database is query-able from the public. If not you'll end up with people writing spiders to crawl the database and that's hardly optimal. :)

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