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I set up http://www.graffpass.com/find today. Its a way for people to find the graffiti that is closest to them, based on a pool of instagram photos I scraped over two weeks.
This is an concept experiment for a iPhone app I want to finish next week.
The application currently has a feature for users to find images using two mechanism: type a location or check against current location. When users check against their current location, I am using the browser’s geolocation API to track a person/device’s location.
I am trying to figure out how I want to move forward with this project. Instead of spreading myself too thin, Im considering focusing my attention on a city-by-city launch. Because I dont know the best cities to focus on, Im tracking the use of the “My Location” button.
Instead of building out a way for data to be saved off this service, I am using a very low fidelity database: Google Drive. After finding a wiki on “How to write to Google Docs using JavaScript”, I implemented a quick javascript function to save each location check result.