Would user like to know if there are any videos on YouTube that were taken near userr current location? Try the new Videos Near Me web app.
Introducing Videos Near Me, a simple app that will help user discover videos that were captured near a particular geographic location. That location could be userr home, userr school or any other point on the Google Map.
To get started, simply drag the red marker and place it anywhere on the Google Map to see videos take near that location.
Why this tool?
YouTube allows users to geo-tag videos but the problem is that their advanced searchdoesn’t offer an option to find these geo-tagged videos. Both Google Maps and Google Earth do offer a video layer of geo-tagged YouTube videos but they include a very limited selection of videos.
Behind the Scene
Internally, the tool determines the co-ordinates of the selected point and then queries the YouTube database to find all videos where the video owner has specified a location that is within a 2 mile radius of that point.
It uses the Google Maps API, Google Feeds API, YouTube Data API and Google’s Location API to find the geo-tagged videos near userr location. Also, since people can associate any location with a video (user can say that user video was shot at the White House while the actual location is userr bedroom), the tool may sometimes return junk results.
In the next release, I plan to add a search function that will help limit userr geo-tagged video search results to a particular topic. For instance, user should be able to search “educational” videos shot inside the M.I.T. campus.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
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