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Picky Geosearch 2

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    Hi, this is Florian, speaking from Melbourne.
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    In the series, "Searching with Picky", this is a little screencast I've put together.
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    So, from the last blog post we know that Picky can search coordinates.
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    What I'm using now is a radius of 25km, which is quite big.
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    As you see, Switzerland is small, so you find a lot of stuff with just 25 kilometers.
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    The data I'm using here is the iPhone data, the cell tower location data, which
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    Apple is collecting.
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    I describe how I extracted it, it's easy, it's an SQLite database.
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    So I've extracted it and fed it into Picky.
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    And now, as in the last blog post, you can search for these
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    dots where I was, so apparently I was never here, but I was here.
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    Once. Or here.
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    So now let's enable the timestamp and disable the coordinates
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    and enable the dates.
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    So, when I bought the iPhone,
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    I started out in Zürich, and then I moved quite a bit
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    At the end of November, I've moved to
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    Tessin. Some friends of mine have programmed a nice iPhone
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    game. it's called iMapIt.
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    You can learn about Switzerland, its places.
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    It's quite nice, you can download it
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    They'll be happy.
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    And you can also see that for example
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    I spent my new year's around here.
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    Near St. Moritz.
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    And then I went back again.
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    But you don't see me
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    on this January 9th.
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    Fact is, I went to Berlin, and
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    gave a talk at the excellent RUG Berlin, with my friends, which
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    also came.
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    It was a Swiss evening, quite cool.
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    So yeah, as you can see
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    how I've moved around, and at the end of the timeline
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    which is about now, that I've moved to Australia.
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    Melbourne.
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    So, now let's combine these two attributes.
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    What I can say now is, when was I around here?
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    Aha, it was around new year's I was there.
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    Just for me this doesn't make lots of sense.
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    If I want to know if I was somewhere I can just disable the timestamp and click.
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    But if you have lots of people
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    Say, intersecting data, with lots of intersecting geospatial
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    timestamped data.
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    Could come quite handy if you can combine these or choose which you need.
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    Or enable the latitude, or just the longitude.
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    Hope it was fun, hope you learnt something.
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    I'll describe how I did it in the blog post.
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    Cheers!
Title:
Picky Geosearch 2
Description:

A short screencast where I show how Picky can be used to search your iPhone geo data.
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