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Show HN: Instagram on the Google Maps
- Instmap 11y agoInstmap allows you to see Instagram photos nearby or anywhere in the world. It can be used as tool to explore activities in a certain area or just geek way to find Instagram accounts of your neighbours. Also you can embed it to your website to display activities around some event. Ability to sign in and see your feed on the map is coming soon. - Since I am the only one who working on this project, I would like to hear your opinion. I will appreciate your feedback and do my best to improve the app.
- slig 11y agoOne suggestion: permalinks. So I can share the URL of a specific location. Eg instmap.com/?location=-22.9111721,-43.5884186
- Instmap 11y agoYou can, just click on the top right button :)
- atothayu 11y agoThis is great! Nice, fun interactive project. Worked really well for me (Haight Ashbury in San Francisco), guess it makes sense that it would work best in tourist areas How was it integrating Google Maps and Instagram APIs? Haven't looked at Instagram's yet
- Instmap 11y agoThanks. It was interesting.
- Pufe 11y agoI would like to use your website without telling you my location. At least on safari, I'm unable to do it. The request for my location keeps reappearing after clicking no.
- pgrote 11y agoGreat site. A couple of questions: 1) What is the date range for the photos shown? 2) How large is the radius where you show photos once the location is received?
- tedmiston 11y agoThis is cool. As a heavy Instagram user and someone who's worked with their API before, I'm curious about how far back in time you're going with photos at a given location. And a comment: many of the photos showing around me (Cincinnati, OH) seem to be misplaced, some a half mile or more from where their actual location is. I'm judging this based off knowing what store the photo is taken inside of.
- Instmap 11y agoThanks. Sometimes photo can me misplaced for thousands of kilometers, for example when user posts photo from his recent travel being at home, but most of the photos are pretty accurate :)
- toomuchtodo 11y agoDoes Instagram strip the GPS EXIF data?
- toomuchtodo 11y agoEDIT: It appears they do.
- keepitsurreal 11y agoAwesome! I've been wanting to see something like this for a while. Kudos to the creator. I love the interface as well.
- Instmap 11y agoWow, thanks!
- pohungc 11y agoSweet! It's really cool to see your neighborhood through the lens of other people :)
- Instmap 11y agoThanks, it was the main idea of the app.
- galfarragem 11y agoLack of privacy makes part of social media genetics, but normally the 'voyeur' (in lack of a better word) has to dig to explore it. Here he doesn't need to: everything is exposed. It's scary..
- hmhrex 11y agoIt's super strange looking up your hometown and realizing you know half of the people posting. Almost creepy.
- Instmap 11y agoI feel the same when tested it first time lol
- Bedon292 11y agoVery fun to play with. Will you be open sourcing it or anything? Would be fun to integrate it with other social media too.
- fokinsean 11y agoWow this is really cool! (kinda creepy too haha) What language are you using?
- bluekite2000 11y agoCan I search for hashtag or username?
- Instmap 11y agoAbility to Sign in and see feed/user/hashtag on the map will be added soon.
- sebastianavina 11y agoI really liked this