8 month ago
nelson : iPhone geolocation in Safari - I wasn't sure, but iPhone 3.0 supports the new geolocation protocol
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Simon Willison : geocoders - geocoders. A fifteen minute project extracted from something else I’m working on—an ultra simple Python API for geocoding a single string against Google, Yahoo! Placemaker, GeoNames and (thanks to Jacob) Yahoo! Geo’s web services.
philgyford : Simonw's geocoders at master - GitHub - Python "code for accessing various geocoding web services with an ultra simple API". Sounds good.
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Simon Willison : Flickr Shapefiles Public Dataset 1.0 - Flickr Shapefiles Public Dataset 1.0. Another awesome Geo dataset from the Yahoo! stable—this time it’s Flickr releasing shapefiles (geometrical shapes) for hundreds of thousands of places around the world, under the CC0 license which makes them ess
philgyford : Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Flickr Shapefiles Public Dataset 1.0 - I keep seeing cool code stuff whizz by and I'm not making anything with it. May need to ringfence time from other commitments just to *do* something.
joshua : Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Flickr Shapefiles Public Dataset 1.0
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Simon Willison : Yahoo! Placemaker - Yahoo! Placemaker. Really exciting new API from Yahoo!—Placemaker accepts a block of text (or a URL to HTML or RSS) and extracts and returns geographical locations mentioned in the text. I just ran my djng blog entry through it and it pulled out “Pr
Andy Baio : Yahoo! Placemaker, extract world locations from unstructed content - also, Yahoo released the huge GeoPlanet/WOE placename database under a CC license
philgyford : Yahoo! Placemaker_ Beta - YDN - Parses text and extracts any recognisable locations. (via Simon Willison)
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21 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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22 month ago
joshua : Yahoo! Internet Location Platform - nice -- yahoo opens the Where On Earth dataset. what's with the goofy url syntax tho?
Andy Baio : Yahoo! opens its geo location database to the world - I'm stunned and thrilled they finally opened it up; this powers Flickr and Upcoming's geo features
Simon Willison : Yahoo! Internet Location Platform - Yahoo! Internet Location Platform. As an ex-Yahoo! this is really exciting—WhereOnEarth (a London company acquired by Yahoo! in 2005) provide the incredibly detailed geographical data used by Flickr, Upcoming and FireEagle—and now it’s available a
nelson : Free geocoding - Yahoo makes their geodatabase available for free, 50,000 queries / day
bmilleare : Yahoo! Internet Location Platform - YDN
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41 month ago
plasticbag : Check out Flickr's new maps for London. This is stunningly good stuff... - Yahoo and Flickr now have good maps for Britain and the rest of Europe as well, which should help the whole geotagging thing really fly outside the US. I've known this was coming for a while, but it doesn't make its arrival any less welcome...
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41 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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42 month ago
plasticbag : Geotagging with Zonetag and Bluetooth GPS... - I wrote this piece to explain how you can geotag photos in the wild by connecting your Nokia mobile phone with a cheap Bluetooth GPS device. Hopefully it's clear and detailed enough without being grotesquely over the top.
Rod Begbie : Geotagging with Zonetag and Bluetooth GPS... (plasticbag.org) - Good overview from Tom Coates on how to get your cellphone geotagging and uploading photos automagically. This is the process I use, and I recommend the Nokia 6682 highly. It's a decent-ish camera, and a great phone. #
Simon Willison : Geotagging with Zonetag and Bluetooth GPS - I've been playing with this stuff for a while - it's awesome fun.
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43 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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45 month ago
Simon Willison : Holux GPSlim (GR-236) Review - Matt Biddulph has one of these. They're awesome.
plasticbag : A pretty stunningly glowing review of the Holux GPSlim (GR-236) GPS unit - I need to get me one of these. I have no idea what to do with it, but it's pretty fascinatingly awesome...
Rod Begbie : Holux GPSlim (GR-236) Review - Tom Coates's ravings about this Bluetooth GPS receiver got me all excited, so I've ordered one for myself. $90 is a pretty good deal, since I have a cellphone, PDA and laptop that will all work with it. [via] #
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47 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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49 month ago
kellan : GeoNames.org: compilation of public domain gazateers, normalized on name, altitude and population - And then provided via REST or a download. 6 million entries including 2.2 million cities and villages #
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53 month ago
plasticbag : An implementation of the Yahoo maps API turns the whole thing into a pirate map. S'pretty. - There's also a radar screen. It's pretty cool, all things considered. Shiny.
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54 month ago
plasticbag : NYC Subway Flash Overlay for Google Maps is absolutely fascinating and well-assembled... - I wonder if anyone's got the strength of character and will to try and do an equivalent for the London Underground
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58 month ago
plasticbag : UpMyStreet Conversations - the project that I was brought into UpMyStreet to develop has won an honorary mention at the Ars Electronica Online Communities prize - So give it up, if you will, for Stefan Magdalinski who came up with the idea and for Dorian McFarland and Dan Burzynski who made it with me..
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