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title: 'Ready Steady Go'
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date: 2010-04-23T11:07:46+02:00
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## Ready, steady, ...
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**GO!!**
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I'm sitting here in the corp apartment in Mountain View (CA) and I've found an ultimately cool widget that you can see on the left hand panel of the blog - it shows you the exact location (to the street level) of the Droid with Froyo 'special sauce image' I borrowed from my buddy at Google (thanks, Charles!!). We have tweaked the phone to send a location update every 60s (unless the battery is low, and then it sends once every 180s). At the end (or possibly while we're on the road), I'll post a KML of our track, or a PNG static map or something - just to show how you can use Latitude and mobile phones to do this type of "mytracks" action.
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Marina and I have packed, carefully making sure that my bag will contain the right stuff needed to start the roadtrip (for example, 2lbs of skittles, a 12V-110V inverter for the car, lotsa cables, credit cards, and so on).
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One other thing, I must say that I have such an amazing company to work for. I was telling one of the Street View folks I met with this week about my pending trip - she was really excited and asked me (very politely) if I were willing to take a camera with me to make some special format pictures for Maps. Hell yeah!! So I am now also equipped with two 15Mpix DSLRs, one 7mm fish eye and one standard issue 18-55mm lens, tripod, 10 or so 8GB SD cards [what were they thinking :)], a video camera and all the accessories.
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What I'll do is this: The tripod has a rotating head that has 4 notches, one every 90 degrees. I am to put the fish eye in the rotating head, and take 12 pictures, 4 in each direction, and each direction in 3 different exposures. Google then will stitch these pictures together to create a 360 degree seemless view of my inner (or outer) space environment. I plan on taking quite a few photos, logging their GPS location, and offering them to the team as a special photo shoot reel. Even my VP, Brian, got excited about this, as he had done this on his Antarctica trip. Whohoo!
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Well, I'm going to hit the hay soon, as I get up at 4am tomorow morning to fetch my 7am flight to JFK. Here's hoping that WEiRDJE has a good and non-delayed trip, too!
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