I’m currently sitting in a train from Helsinki to Oulu and we’re going to arrive there in about 3 hours or so. We landed in Helsinki yesterday and spent the rest of the day/night doing some sightseeing (more or less) and visiting some pubs (EUR 5,- for 1 beer is tough). Maybe I’ll upload some photos to my flickr account later.
The time has come to disclose the secret of my previous post. I know that all of you have been waiting for this moment with great anticipation 
Well, I have to admit that I may have exaggerated a bit (or even excessively) when I was talking about a feature which is ‘magic’ and ’simply kicks ass’. To be honest, it’s not that thrilling - but it’s nice though.
So here is the information you’ve all been waiting for so long: As I already mentioned yesterday, the MIDlet records position-information together with a timestamp. If I select ‘Flickr it!’, the MIDlet connects to Flickr and asks their server to tell it which of my photos are tagged with ‘marked_for_geotagging’. Then it checks the recorded geodata for a timestamp-match of the Flickr-photos and the recorded position data. If there is a match it automatically adds a geotag to the photo on Flickr.
Click here to see my first set of geotagged photos
Here is another one from today
I hope I have time to add also bluetagging and celltagging in the near future.
If you’re interested in blue- and celltagging, have a look at Meaning which is an application for Symbian Series 60 phones. The difference between Meaning and the MIDlet described above is, that Meaning adds geo/blue/cell-tags to photos taken with the phone’s internal camera and uploads them directly to your Flickr account over-the-air whereas my MIDlet adds geotags to photos which are already online (this is useful if you prefer to use your digital camera because of the better image quality).
Today I wrote a quite cool piece of software (at least in my opinion)
I’m talking about a MIDlet for J2ME capable phones which fetches the geodata from a Bluetooth GPS device in regular intervals of a few seconds and stores the route to the phone’s memory. Well, you may now think that this is nothing special - and you’re right - BUT the MIDlet has also the magic “Flickr it!” feature (which simply kicks ass ;-)).
So, you might ask yourself: “What the hell does this mysterious feature do that makes it so cool?”
Unfortunately for you I’m not going to tell you now, because 1.) I’m too tired and gotta catch some sleep and 2.) much more importantly: to tantalize you and make the whole thing more ‘thrilling’.
Please be patient until tomorrow when the secret of the mysterious “Flickr it!” feature gets revealed.
Check out this flight simulator game which uses Google Maps: Goggles