DESCRIPTION

creepy is an application that allows you to gather geolocation related information about users from social networking platforms and image hosting services. The information is presented in a map inside the application where all the retrieved data is shown accompanied with relevant information (i.e. what was posted from that specific location) to provide context to the presentation.

FEATURES

Map providers available :

Google Maps - Virtual Maps - Open Street Maps

Location information retieval from :

Twitter's tweet location:

Coordinates when tweet was posted from mobile device.

Place (geographical name) derived from users ip when posting on twitter's web interface. Place gets translated into coordinates using geonames.com"

Bounding Box derived from users ip when posting on twitter's web interface.The less accurate source , a corner of the bounding box is selected randomly.

Geolocation information accessible through image hosting services API

EXIF tags from the photos posted.

Social networking platforms currently supported:

Twitter

Foursquare (only checkins that are posted to twitter).

Image hosting services currently supported :

flickr - information retrieved from API

twitpic.com - information retrieved from API and photo exif tags

yfrog.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

img.ly - information retrieved from photo exif tags

plixi.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

twitrpix.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

foleext.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

shozu.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

pickhur.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

moby.to - information retrieved from API and photo exif tags

twitsnaps.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

twitgoo.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

NOTES

Automatic caching of retrieved information in order to reduce API calls and the possibility of hitting limit rates.

GUI with navigable map for better overview of the accumulated information

4 Maps providers (including Google Maps) to use.

Open locations in Google Maps in your browser

Export retrieved locations list as kmz (for Google Earth) or csv files.

Handling twitter authentication in an easy way using oAuth. User credentials are not shared with the application.

User/target search for twitter and flickr.

AUTHOR

creepy was written by Yiannis Kakavas <[email protected]>

This manual page was written by Daniel Echeverry for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).