"OpenStreetBlock is a web service for turning a given lat/lon coordinate (e.g. 40.737813,-73.997887) into a textual description of the actual city block to which the coordinate points (e.g. "West 14th Street bet. 6th Ave. & 7th Ave") using OpenStreetMap data."

"In an online survey of 1,500 people around the world last month, 51 percent report having used a location-based service including 50 percent in the U.S."

"The Google Latitude API allows for websites and programs to integrate with Google Latitude, enabling users to update and read their current location, their location history, and more!"

"As location-based services continue to gain popularity, each of them is building up these massive databases of places themselves, and this is going to become an issue as services like Twitter and potentially Facebook attempt to federate all this data."

$160; not compatible with the D40 though. "Ideal GPS receiver for Nikon DSLR camera! Just simply attach the device to your Nikon camera, all the photos taken are geotagged with precise location (longitude, latitude, altitude and heading) and UTC time information. Compare with the Geotagger N1, the advantage of N2 is able to provide the heading information."

"Google Ajax API does location lookup, so it makes it a great fallback for the native HTML5 Gelocation API. Of course, the fallback will never get near the same accuracy as GPS lookup, because it does a lookup on your ISP, but it is at least able to get you in the ballpark as a fallback."

"This specification defines an API that provides scripted access to geographical location information associated with the hosting device."

Poorly done, but still, kinda unreal considering this is Greece we're talking about.

I think this is a great idea for everywhere, not just India.

"Why? Well, you only need to see Waze, a new crowd-sourced traffic app for mobile phones, to see just how lame this method of reporting the traffic is."

"The part of Foursquare that I've become most enamored with lately is this ability to create a lifestream of places. Can you imagine if you had all of this data from your teen or college years? This would be amazing to mashup over long periods of time."

"Allow your users to “fuzz” their location when they tweet, and say they’re at the Ritz or the nearby coffee shop when they’re really at home or at the office. It’ll make folks feel more comfortable by giving them more control of their privacy and anonymity, even if it makes your data a little less true."

JG: "Via a deal with AT&T, Loopt — a location-based social networking service — can now track and update the location of your iPhone even when the Loopt app isn’t running. [...] This is a server-to-server system between Loopt and AT&T. Update: It’s worth pointing out that the service is not free. You get a 14-day trial, and after that, it’s a $4 per month addition to your AT&T bill."

Andy Baio: "drop-dead easy way to run your own OpenStreetMap install on EC2 with custom styles"