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Show HN: Instagram on the Google Maps

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This 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.

Thanks. 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 :)

Does Instagram strip the GPS EXIF data?

EDIT: It appears they do.

Instmap 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.

One suggestion: permalinks. So I can share the URL of a specific location. Eg instmap.com/?location=-22.9111721,-43.5884186

You can, just click on the top right button :)

This 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

Thanks. It was interesting.

Great 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?

Thanks. Currently it's 100 recent post with 500m radius, but I think I'll make ability to change this parameters.

I appreciate your answers. It's interesting seeing where and what people shoot in our town.

Good job!

Awesome! I've been wanting to see something like this for a while. Kudos to the creator. I love the interface as well.

Wow, thanks!

It's super strange looking up your hometown and realizing you know half of the people posting. Almost creepy.

I feel the same when tested it first time lol

Sweet! It's really cool to see your neighborhood through the lens of other people :)

Thanks, it was the main idea of the app.

Lack 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..

I 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.

You don't need to share your location. Hit the bouncing camera button in the bottom-center to set a target.

Exactly :)

Very fun to play with. Will you be open sourcing it or anything? Would be fun to integrate it with other social media too.