Twitter is super light on a mobile while www is slow and heavy. Also a real time beach report is better than a wind station IMHO.

CJW said...

stehsegler said...

Agreed ... i did that for Gerroa last summer and we had some great feedback from quite a number of people. The biggest question I got from people was "anyway I can get that on my mobile"

If I get some time I'll throw together a short primer explaining all this as well as pulling the hashtag onto a web page that is easily accessible via mobile phone.

Plus I'll start contributing with reports. That is when I get more time... snowed under with work at the moment.

This confuses me? If you have twitter on your mobile you have a smartphone, which means you have the internet, which means you can read seabreeze/gerroa updates easily...am I missing something? Just saying.

Sup CJ

... and the wind meter average + peak are helpful but don't paint the full picture. Eg the time I mentioned when it was 10kts half the time and 30kts the other - impossible for windsurfing, I wouldn't have bothered going down if I knew.

I did try to post to twitter (I can't bring myself to say 'tweet' - not yet at least) when I last went out, but my phone was playing up. That was the day it was gusting to 43kts in Sydney - I would have said bring your 3.3's!

LOL, me too, I'll post.

sparky72 said...

... and the wind meter average + peak are helpful but don't paint the full picture. Eg the time I mentioned when it was 10kts half the time and 30kts the other - impossible for windsurfing, I wouldn't have bothered going down if I knew.

I did try to post to twitter (I can't bring myself to say 'tweet' - not yet at least) when I last went out, but my phone was playing up. That was the day it was gusting to 43kts in Sydney - I would have said bring your 3.3's!

Just found a site with a very similar concept:

http://weendy.com

Basically it allows you to do wind reports, take video etc.. from your smartphone. You can link it into your twitter account so that it automatically posts your reports to twitter.

Not dissimilar to what we are trying to do with this idea.

Must admit it looks good, not many reports on there yet (none from near by anyway) but I suppose the value of this is when lots of people use it.

I'll give it a try, but given the conditions recently may take a while before I use it

Hi guys

I posted in the speed place and they said there had been a thread here.

www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Windsurfing/Gps/Twitter-map/

I've built this site and I'm hoping that people will adopt the hashtag "#windsurflaunch" globally.

I did it to see whether it could be done, rather than to become rich and famous... so if anyone wants to use the code on their own site then that's cool (on the condition that they don't change the hashtag)

accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=jotspot&passive=1209600&continue=https://sites.google.com/site/windsurfmap/&followup=https://sites.google.com/site/windsurfmap/

Cheers

Stuart

stehsegler said...

ginger pom said...

Hi guys

I posted in the speed place and they said there had been a thread here.

www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Windsurfing/Gps/Twitter-map/

I've built this site and I'm hoping that people will adopt the hashtag "#windsurflaunch" globally.

I did it to see whether it could be done, rather than to become rich and famous... so if anyone wants to use the code on their own site then that's cool (on the condition that they don't change the hashtag)

accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=jotspot&passive=1209600&continue=https://sites.google.com/site/windsurfmap/&followup=https://sites.google.com/site/windsurfmap/

Cheers

Stuart

Stuart,

The idea with Windsurfmap is interesting.

However using Twitter was suggested so it could be easily contributed to and viewed on a mobile device while out and about. The need to go to a web site negates that somewhat.

BTW, there is an iPhone app that does something similar to the Windsurfmap web site.

So far it seems the Twitter experiment hasn't really caught on. Could have something to do with the lack of wind or perhaps it's the fact that like everything else on the internet 99.9% of people are generally just consumers of information with the occasional comment. People providing actual content are in the minority.

hmmm

met with a mate from google this evening and we're going to do a bit more with the map api. We're also looking to integrate Google plus status updates too which are also available as rss too.

The api would mean that we can run a mobile app as well as a website.... The app would allow you to share all of the information with a few button pushes before you launch.

There may be an app that does it on the Iphone but that will work with iphone users who use it on an iphone rather than with all phone users who use it on a phone or the web.

I'm also sharing the code fairly freely so lots of sites can have the map on them.

I think it's probably too early to say that it hasn't worked...It's only really been going a couple of weeks and these things take a while to get going... plus there's been no wind!

There's a lot more to do with the technology but for now I'm just trying to encourage people to sign up to twitter and have a play with location based tweeting.

ginger pom said...

met with a mate from google this evening and we're going to do a bit more with the map api. We're also looking to integrate Google plus status updates too which are also available as rss too.

Can you get your mate from Goole to send me a Google Plus invite?