Links tagged with “geolocation”
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Difference between geo and coordinates in status - Twitter Development Talk | Google Groups
Coordinates vs geo vs place in the Twitter API. It’s not good when you have to read email threads to work out how to use a company’s API.
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1UP: The importance of platforms, and how we’re extending ours | Foursquare Blog
Ooh, nice: Foursquare’s Venue Project, to tie together IDs for different places (businesses, buildings, etc) on different sites and services. (via Booktwo)
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Coderholic’s django-cities at master - GitHub
Models, with data from GeoNames, for countries, regions, cities and districts, for Django. Haven’t used it yet, but looks very useful.
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Woe db
Searchable index of the Where On Earth ID location database, very nicely done.
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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.
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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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Yahoo! Placemaker™ Beta - YDN
Parses text and extracts any recognisable locations. (via Simon Willison)
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iCraig » Geotagger
A Mac app for using Google Earth to add GPS coordinates to photos’ EXIF data. A shame iPhoto doesn’t update its cached data though. (via Lee)
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Free The Postcode!
Creating a free UK postcode database. Laudable, but I doubt it’ll be comprehenive enough to be usable or keep up with churn. (via Tom Carden)
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Transmutable: 93 Photo Street
Free software for publishing web pages of location-based photos.
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Anti-mega: can we get excited yet?
Chris is living in the future. And it’s over there.
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Mobile Bristol - Queen Square - 1831 Riot!
Walk around the square and a GPS-equipped iPAQ plays location-relevant historical sounds…
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Mogi: Second Generation Location-Based Gaming by Justin Hall
Sod location-based reviews of restaurants