Pinning Photo History to the Map / / No Comments You are about to become a digital time-traveler with OpenMediaMap. There’s an undeniable nostalgic thrill in stumbling upon a century-old photograph of your own neighborhood – spotting the ghosts of buildings long gone or recognizing the outlines of streets that still exist today. By mapping vintage images, OpenMediaMap makes it possible to explore these moments geographically and experience the Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: History, Photo, Pinning
Using GenAI to Classify an Image as a Photo, Screenshot, or Meme / / No Comments File this under the "I wasn’t sure if it would work and it did" category. Recently, a friend on Facebook wondered if there was some way to take a collection of photos and figure out which were ‘real’ photos versus memes. I thought it could possibly be a good exercise for GenAI and decided to take a shot at it. As usual, I opened up Google’s AI Studio and did a few initial tests: I then simply removed that image and pasted more info to test. From what I could see, it worked well enough. I then took the source code from AI Studio and began working. The Code # First, I grabbed some pictures from my collection, eleven of them, and tried to get a few photos, memes,... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Classify, GenAI, Image, Meme, Photo, Screenshot, using
Streetography review: Photo app automatically puts your snapshots on the map – Macworld / / No Comments Macworld Streetography review: Photo app automatically puts your snapshots on the mapMacworldThe app's interface places photos directly on a map, superimposed on defined boundaries of blocks, neighborhoods, and cities in a uniquely satisfying real-time and space perspective. Using only gestures, you can drill down from region to city to street … map app – Google News… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: automatically, Macworld, Photo, puts, review, snapshots, Streetography