Catching The Rain » Website News http://www.catchingtherain.com Mainly just a place to test things out Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:41:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 OpenCalais tagging service and WordPress plugins http://www.catchingtherain.com/2010/10/opencalais-tagging-service-and-wordpress-plugins/ http://www.catchingtherain.com/2010/10/opencalais-tagging-service-and-wordpress-plugins/#comments Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:22:57 +0000 James http://www.catchingtherain.com/?p=268 Continue reading →]]> I’ve just installed two WordPress Plugins to test out automated tagging systems. I’m also really interested in automated geotagging, but not sure if that’s available. For example, if I say that this post is about London, does it add lat long tags? Could these be used to create a map?

These are the two plugins:

The autotagger suggested the following for this post (before I entered this sentence of course):

World Wide Web
PHP programming language
Computing
Blog software
Content management systems
WordPress
Information
Geographic information systems
Web 2.0
Geotagging
Tag
London,Greater London,United Kingdom
London
automated tagging systems
I had already added: OpenCalais, tags, tagger, automatic
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]]> http://www.catchingtherain.com/2006/01/apologies/feed/ 0 Where in the world? Part II http://www.catchingtherain.com/2005/12/where-in-the-world-part-ii/ http://www.catchingtherain.com/2005/12/where-in-the-world-part-ii/#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2005 18:42:01 +0000 James http://www.catchingtherain.com/archives/45 Continue reading →]]> I have been spending what spare time I can get trying to upgrade and enhance the map features in the new Where in the world? section.

There’s now a map of post locations (i.e. the locations mentioned in the posts, not which computer I was sitting at when I wrote them!). Click on one of the map ‘pins’ and you’ll get a pop-up summary of the post.

There’s also a map of image locations. When you click on a map pin here you get a thumbnail of the image and the date, title etc.

In each case there’s just a small sample set of data at the moment, but I’ll go back and georeference all the galleries in the Places section for starters, and make sure any new images have geo data where appropriate.

I love it, but what do you think?

]]> http://www.catchingtherain.com/2005/12/where-in-the-world-part-ii/feed/ 0 Where in the world? http://www.catchingtherain.com/2005/12/where-in-the-world/ http://www.catchingtherain.com/2005/12/where-in-the-world/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2005 11:22:01 +0000 James http://www.catchingtherain.com/?p=42 Continue reading →]]> I have just launched a new experimental feature, a map showing all the locations for which I have made posts. You can find it, with just a sample set of data at the moment, at Where in the world?. I am now looking at ways of integrating this with data on image locations from the gallery, as well as looking at functional improvements to the map.

More soon….

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Don’t be surprised if some of the links aren’t working, or images aren’t displaying, during this time.

Update 9pm: things should be back to normal. If you spot anything odd, please let me know.

]]> http://www.catchingtherain.com/2005/12/site-maintenance/feed/ 0 Agghhhhhhhh! http://www.catchingtherain.com/2005/11/agghhhhhhhh/ http://www.catchingtherain.com/2005/11/agghhhhhhhh/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:04:43 +0000 James http://www.catchingtherain.com/?p=11 Continue reading →]]> It seems my web host has made changes to the way the server is set up to make it more secure, but this has completely broken my image gallery software (Gallery2). I’ll be looking at it further this evening in the hope that it won’t be too difficult to get up and running again……

Update 11 Nov 2.30pm: I have now traced the solution to this and am just waiting for my host to make some changes to the gallery data files. All should be resolved shortly.

Update 11 Nov 5.00pm: My host has made the appropriate changes and everything should now be back to normal. As ever, if you do spot anything then please send me any error reports or suggestions for improving the site. Thanks

]]> http://www.catchingtherain.com/2005/11/agghhhhhhhh/feed/ 0 Site launch http://www.catchingtherain.com/2005/10/site-launch/ http://www.catchingtherain.com/2005/10/site-launch/#comments Sat, 15 Oct 2005 22:16:37 +0000 James http://www.catchingtherain.com/archives/2005/5 This will be a bit of a soft launch as I iron out the structure & design, and get more content online. But here it is, and if you have any questions or comments then just contact me.

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