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)