NAME

       CREEPY -  A geolocation information aggregator

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 <jkakavas@gmail.com>

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

SEE ALSO

       The   full   documentation    which    includes    the    keys    descriptions    is    in
       /usr/share/doc/creepy/README.

                                           MAY 08, 2011                                 CREEPY(1)