7 days ago
deusx : Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Introducing Geode - "Introducing Geode, an experimental add-on to explore geolocation in Firefox 3 ahead of the implementation of geolocation in a future product release. Geode provides an early implementation of the W3C Geolocation specification so that developers can
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3 month ago
deusx : ha.ckers.org web application security lab - Archive » Leeching Geo Location - "With something like this it becomes trivial to leech this information without actually having to build a IP to Geo tool yourself. Since it’s in JavaScript instead of a dynamically constructed image you can either overwrite the document.write funct
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4 month ago
Simon Willison : Geohash for spatial index and search - Geohash for spatial index and search. Nice, clear explanation of what a Geohash is. It’s a way of encoding a lat/lon position as a short string, with the useful property that similar co-ordinates with more or less significant figures share a common pr
bmilleare : Geohash for spatial index and search - Interesting introduction to geohashing. I like the search speed boost this could provide - need to research it more.
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5 month ago
joshua : The Biggest Drawing In The World - artist teams up with DHL to make a global-sized gps drawing
Andy Baio : Biggest Drawing in the World - using GPS-laden briefcase to draw a self-portrait 69,000 miles long [via]
Rod Begbie : Biggest Drawing in the World - An artist uses the planet as his canvas, sketching a self-portrait by shipping a GPS-tracking briefcase around the world. [via] #
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6 month ago
deusx : Twinkle Twinkle Little iPhone, How I Wonder Where You Are | Gadget Lab from Wired.com - "Here's a great idea: Twitter+Location+iPhone. Twinkle is just that; a Twitter client which taps into the iPhone's location finding feature to let you tune into tweets from nearby people."
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7 month ago
Linkorama : WikiNear - A FireEagle/Wikipedia mashup
factoryjoe : wikinear.com - Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: wikipedia, fire eagle, location, Simon willison
deusx : wikinear.com - "wikinear.com shows Wikipedia pages near you, based on your location according to Yahoo! Fire Eagle. The site is optimised for use on a mobile phone."
philgyford : Wikinear.com - Awesome little app by Simon Willison that shows you places near you from Wikipedia, using Yahoo! Fire Eagle. Makes me want an iPhone.
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10 month ago
plasticbag : Extraordinary pixel-art map of Hong Kong that you can browse and explore just like Google/Yahoo Maps... - It's really beautiful. I've spent at least an hour roaming around it over the last few days.
nelson : Hong Kong, pixelart - Amazing map
Andy Baio : Isometric pixel map of Hong Kong - insanely detailed with some odd photo collage bits; try the highest zoom level [via]
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10 month ago
Simon Willison : Unobtrusively Mapping Microformats with jQuery - Unobtrusively Mapping Microformats with jQuery. My contribution to 24 ways: using Mapstraction to geocode hCards (extracted with jQuery) and plot them on a Google Map.
deusx : 24 ways: Unobtrusively Mapping Microformats with jQuery - "Fitting with the principles of unobtrusive JavaScript, we’ll start with a semantically marked up list of restaurants, then use JavaScript to add the map, look up the restaurant locations and plot them as markers."
factoryjoe : 24 ways: Unobtrusively Mapping Microformats with jQuery - An awesome write up about how to leverage microformats with jQuery for mapping. SWEET! Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: Microformats, jquery, simon willison, mapstraction, hreview
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11 month ago
plasticbag : Flickr's awesome new 'Places' feature has launched, allowing you to go and see the best pictures of all kinds of places all over the world. - Lovely stuff. Develop a body of data (photos) and then hook it up with other data sources to enhance both. Each dataset navigable in terms of the other. The combination makes both more valuable.
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14 month ago
plasticbag : Michael Cross talks about the problems getting the Ordnance Survey to open up its data for public use - The Ordnance Survey has a great opportunity to support creative work around geo as well as new business opportunities by more liberal terms for opening up its data, but chooses not to explore them. It is aggravating.
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18 month ago
plasticbag : Cameron Marlow has use the Yahoo maps API to create a super simple Long/Lat finder... - I really really like this. I think it's because it's so simple a tool, so completely understated, that it totally could be a little desktop application. I can see this being genuinely useful to a whole bunch of people.
philgyford : Latitude/longitude lookup (geocoding-geolocator) - Thing from Cameron Marlowe and Yahoo! Maps which shows you the lat/long of a place you point at. Simple and could be handy. (via Plasticbag)
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20 month ago
cameron : Population change in the US by cartogram - Cartograms of the US population by state show the eventual westward movement and coastal polarization from 1900-2000.
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24 month ago
plasticbag : webkuehn.de contains a CSV with the long-lat coordinates for 55,000 Wikipedia articles (along with information about the categories they belong to) - Where to start!? The value of this lot is absolutely extraordinary. You can cut the data by any of the categories allowing you to easily plot the locations of all of Wikipedia's geocoded impact craters or intercontinental ballistic missile sites...
Andy Baio : Geocoordinates from Wikipedia for Google Earth - beyond Google Earth, this CSV of lat-long coordinates for 55,00 Wikipedia articles has tons of potential; thanks, Tom
Nelson Minar : Wikipedia lat/long - Database of spatial coordinates for Wikipedia articles. Cool! (via Waxy)
philgyford : Webkuehn.de - Geocoordinates from Wikipedia for Google Earth - That's a lot of locations. Not sure what I'd do it with it but just in case... (via Plasticbag)
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cameron : Global disease alert mapping system - Mashup with Google Maps and health organization data
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24 month ago
kellan : Rentometer - compare rents on a map to see if you're paying too much or getting a deal. - Nice mashup. Been a while since I saw one worth linking to. #
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25 month ago
cameron : Théorie M - Caroline Delieutraz - Albertine Meunier - 2D graf barcodes around Paris that provide some sort of geotagging interface. (via nelson)
Nelson Minar : theoriem.net - Street Art, 2d barcodes painted around Paris
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25 month ago
kellan : Gothamist: Map of the Day: Getting to Work (and more!) - How people get to work in NYC. Red is cars, blue is public transit, green is walking #
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25 month ago
plasticbag : Breathing Earth - I'm not normally one for large Flash visualisations, but this representation of people being born, dying and the different countries of the world expelling CO2 is quite extraordinarily beautiful and informative...
jkottke : Breathing Earth is a map of the earth that shows, in realtime, births, deaths, and carbon dioxide consumption of the world's countries - Breathing Earth is a map of the earth that shows, in realtime, births, deaths, and carbon dioxide consumption of the world's countries. Mesmerizing to watch. (via snarkmarket) [via]
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26 month ago
Andy Baio : Upcoming.org adds Flickr and Yahoo! Local integration - increasing the number of events by 3000% overnight, plus pretty pictures and nicer event pages
kellan : Upcoming.org: News: Undiscovered Events, Flickr Integration, and More - And an awesome new release from Upcoming #
jimray : Upcoming adds undiscovered events, Flickr integration - I kinda dig the two tiers of Yahoo these days, one for the nerd/hacker set, one for everyone else
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26 month ago
Andy Baio : Flickr adds extensive geotagging and maps support - and, surprise! two-way integration with Upcoming
kellan : FlickrBlog: "Great shot - where'd you take that?" - Our new maps feature is out! #
jkottke : Flickr just launched an interface to geotag your photos - Flickr just launched an interface to geotag your photos. Geotag = situate your photos on a map.
jimray : Flickr adds geotagging
Simon Willison : Flickr launches geocoding - Really great job - congrats Dan Catt and the rest of the team.
Nelson Minar : Flickr Geotagging - Mainstream feature now!
Linkorama : Geo Flickr - Bout time, nah, space
bmilleare : Geotagging on Flickr
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26 month ago
kellan : Jared is liberating the USGS maps! - Help out. #
gleuschk : Free the Maps - excellent idea
jimray : Free the Maps - USGS maps now available for free from the Internet Archive
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28 month ago
cameron : Deutscher Stadtplandienst mit Routenplaner - German map/route planner
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29 month ago
cameron : Manhattan Elsewhere - Jason pits Manhattan against a few other land masses (SF, Chicago, Minneapolis, Barron WI) but adds cool 3D visuals from Google Earth. The manhattan skyline isn't quite as impressive as I expected it to be.
Milo Vermeulen : kottke.org - Manhattan Elsewhere
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29 month ago
deusx : Yahoo! Maps Web Services - Geocoding API - "The Geocoding Web Service allows you to find the specific latitude and longitude for an address."
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30 month ago
deusx : Sex toys, Sex education, Erotic Books and Adult Videos - Goodvibes.com - ""
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