Time to upgrade!

Version 1.1 of Indicommons for iPhone and iPod Touch is now available in the Apple App Store, and you want it — because like us, you love maps. The Indicommons app now shows the location of any geotagged Commons photo on a ma — perfect for hunting for that Then & Now location.

If you’re enjoying the app, stop into Flickr App Garden and “fave” it, or let us know what you like about it and what you’d like to see added. (While you’re there, check out more of dopiaza’s apps!)

Here at Indicommons, we’re very pleased to announce the release of Indicommons for iPhone® and iPod touch®. You can now keep up to date with the very latest Commons happenings, no matter where you are.

With the app, you can not only read the latest blog entries from us here at Indicommons, but you can also directly access the wealth of photos held within the Commons – right from your iPhone or iPod touch. Whether you just want to casually browse through the various photo sets belonging to each member institution or search for photos across the whole of the Flickr Commons, the Indicommons app makes it easy for you to find whatever you are looking for.

If you have a Flickr account, you can add tags and comments to Commons photos directly from the app, and if you find a photo that you particularly like, you can quickly and easily add it to your favourites on Flickr.

Indicommons for iPhone and iPod touch is a free download and is available on the App Store℠ (show in iTunes®). The app requires an iPhone or iPod touch running OS 3.0 or later and an internet connection.

If you have an iPhone or iPod touch, download the Indicommons app today and give it a whirl! And if you have any feedback on the app, please do let us know what you think. We already have a whole bunch of ideas for things we’d like to add and are busy planning next version of the app, so if there’s something you’d particularly like to see, do let us know.

Those crafty developers down under at the Powerhouse Museum worked with an Augemented Reality developer to release free applications for the iPhone and Android to display their geotagged images. Seb Chan explains the iPhone application in Augmented reality update – using Powerhouse geocoded photographs on your iPhone 3GS with BuildAR and Layar.

[edited to add:] See also Seb’s article Augmented reality and the Powerhouse images in the Commons (or interesting things clever people do with your data #7215).

For now, it only works if you’re in Australia, but perhaps it will be coming soon if other Commons institutions adopt the technology (hint hint).