#geo (96 links)
- Exporting the past into the future, or, “The Possibility Jelly lives on the hypersurface of the present” « Magical Nihilism magicalnihilism.wordpress.com
"My attitude to most Location-Based Services [...] has been hardened by sitting through umpty-nine presentations by the white-men-in-chinos who maintain a fortune can be made by the first company to reliably send a passer-by a voucher for a cheap coffee as they drift past *bucks." This post is not that.
- Opening Times opening-times.co.uk
"Enter a UK town or postcode to find out when nearby shops are open". Brilliant.
- Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Things I’m Standing Next To code.flickr.com
It is difficult to overstate how impressive, and important, tools like Google Earth and PhotoSynth are visualizing geographies and in pushing the boundaries of what is possible both technically and conceptually. But both do so at the expense of what Scott McCloud calls “the magic in the gutter“.
- Hublog: Getting a visitor's location (city) hublog.hubmed.org
Who knew that "Javascript, IP address-based lookup" had got so simple?
- PhotoLocatr: Geotag Photos Taken With Any Digital Camera photolocatr.webopticon.com
Been wanting something like this for ages. Now all I need is an iPhone.
- HubLog: On A Bus hublog.hubmed.org
More info re. On A Bus: "Enter a route number to display the stops (and switch between alternate routes in the sidebar). A click on a marker or a stop name will show a blow-up map for that location (which can be maximised to show a StreetView of that location, or at least it would if StreetView was available in London). A selection of Wikipedia items near that stop will also be displayed, so you can use this to explore locations along the route; again, these maximise to show the whole Wikipedia page inline."
- Nokia - Nokia Map Loader for Mac nokia.com
"With Nokia MapLoader for Mac, you can sideload maps to your phone directly from your Mac. This way, you can save a lot on your data transfer costs – especially if you are planning a trip abroad." Wish you could sideload Google Maps for Mobile.
- Meet LiveGuy - Brought to you by Vodafone liveguy.vodafone.co.uk
Somebody's been reading Brighton Rock.
- WordPress › XML Google Maps « WordPress Plugins wordpress.org
Allows you to easily insert Google Map or Google Earth Plugin Maps into your blog. You just have to add a link to your self defined Map from My Google Maps, Picasa Webalbum Picture Map, any geoRSS Feed (like Flickr), your uploaded Google Earth file (kmz, kml) or any other dynamic or static Google Earth file (umapper.com, flickr.com, etc.)
- jMaps Framework Documentation jmaps.digitalspaghetti.me.uk
A jQuery plugin that provide a easy to use and powerful API for creating dynamic Google Maps.
- Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Introducing Geode labs.mozilla.com
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 begin experimenting with enabling location-aware experiences using Firefox 3 today, and users can tell us what they think of the experience it provides.
- Google's Android Gets Game - Forbes.com forbes.com
"The [service] attracting the most buzz is "WiFi Army," a first-person shooter game currently in beta. Like a mash-up of laser tag and the parlor game Assassin, participants meet on the street (using Google Maps) and "shoot" each other with their phone cameras."
- Nokia To Debut Mobile Lifestreaming App - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
For users of Nokia phones, though, a new app will soon be revealed that does exactly what we always dreamed a mobile lifestreaming app should: geotag your media and upload it to the web.
- My thoughts on Consumer LBS - RussellBeattie.com russellbeattie.com
Disagree with most of this but an interesting perspective. "Most LBS applications are a black hole of wasted time, effort, money, and opportunity."
- Blog on Fire » Blog Archive » Fire Eagle is open!! feblog.yahoo.net
Great intro to Fire Eagle from Coates.
A Twitter client that adds photos and geolocation as well as clickable URLs and Follow / Stop Following control within the app. With it, you can find people twittering near you.
- Google Maps API for Flash - Google Code code.google.com
This API lets Flex developers embed Google Maps in Flash applications. Similar to the JavaScript version, this ActionScript API provides a number of utilities for manipulating and adding content to maps through a variety of services.
- Nokia Sports Tracker Beta sportstracker.nokia.com
A GPS-based activity tracker that runs on Nokia smartphones. Information such as speed, distance and time are automatically stored in your training diary, and on this site you can store and share your workouts and routes.
- 3dtracking free.3dtracking.net
Monitor the movements of a live vehicle/person or to display a previous route that's been traveled. The vehicle/person's path is displayed as a line on either Google Earth or Google Maps with details of the speed at each point along the route.
- Location Technologies Primer techcrunch.com
Being location aware is the single most important feature in a mobile device that otherwise suffers in comparison with desktop and laptop Internet devices
- Yahoo! Internet Location Platform - YDN developer.yahoo.com
Provides a resource for managing all geo-permanent named places on Earth.
- A List Apart: Articles: Take Control of Your Maps alistapart.com
An ecology of open source online mapping tools has emerged alongside the market leader. It is now possible to replicate Google Maps’ functionality with open source software and produce high-quality mapping applications tailored to our design goals.
- i am near iamnear.net
It's really simple. You tell Fire Eagle your location, and we tell you stuff that's near it.
- Twitter Local twitterlocal.net
Lets you generate an RSS or XML Feed to filter out Tweets around a certain area. Just enter a city, state, postal code, choose the range of miles you want to include
- wikinear.com 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.
- wikinear.com, OAuth and Fire Eagle simonwillison.net
- Fimoculous.com - misc - A Data Point on Every Block - An Interview with Adrian Holovaty fimoculous.com
Getting local right.
A library that provides a common API for various javascript mapping APIs to enable switching from one to another as smoothly as possible.
While it’s good to know that users of tools such as Tails and Operator will derive added value from your shiny semantics, it’s nice to be able to reuse that effort in your own code.
- Google Mobile Maps PinPoints Your Location Without GPS techcrunch.com
"Today, [Google] updated its mobile maps to pinpoint your locations by triangulating between cell towers". Hurrah! Results suck for me, though.
- Do you want to broadcast your location? - WhatPC? whatpc.co.uk
In early October, Yahoo’s Tom Coates presented Fire Eagle, a geographic service now in alpha testing that will provide data to location-based internet applications.
- IP Addresses of Search Engine Spiders iplists.com
"Are you interested in tracking the IP addresses of search engine spiders? You can see my latest lists of search engine IP addresses and User-Agents here." Handy.
- ZoneTag | Yahoo! Research research.yahoo.com
The application allows you to quickly and easily upload images from your camera phone to Flickr. The photos uploaded can be automatically annotated with the location (usually based on cell tower) in which they were taken.
- Geograph British Isles - photograph every grid square! geograph.org.uk
Aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of the UK and the Republic of Ireland.