Google’s New Places API | Think Vitamin
november 2010 by ohskylab
"Now you have a massive, global, ever-growing database of places which you can use for your web app."
google
geo
api
web
november 2010 by ohskylab
MapCrunch - Random Google Street View
november 2010 by ohskylab
...melted my brain.
geo
googlemaps
world
mapping
mapcrunch
scale
november 2010 by ohskylab
monospaced's Geocode-UK-Postcodes at master - GitHub
september 2010 by ohskylab
"Web UI for (batch) geocoding of UK postcodes with the (accurate!) Google Local Search API."
geo
postcode
google
tools
web
september 2010 by ohskylab
Polymaps
august 2010 by ohskylab
"A JavaScript library for image- and vector-tiled maps using SVG."
cartography
geo
web
visualization
maps
javascript
simplegeo
stamen
polymaps
august 2010 by ohskylab
Proximity for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store
august 2010 by ohskylab
"Proximity is a location-based alarm that allows you to set *where* you want to wake up, as opposed to *when*." Close, but would like to see something a little more general that could trigger a range of actions depending on location.
proximity
geo
iphone
ideas
august 2010 by ohskylab
Display your foursquare checkins on Google Maps the easy way
july 2010 by ohskylab
Basically paste your KML feed into the Google Maps search box.
foursquare
google
googlemaps
geo
maps
web
social
via:peter.costello
lbs
july 2010 by ohskylab
Spotisquare - What's playing at your venue - Share, Check-in and Listen!
june 2010 by ohskylab
"A mobile web app that connects music to places. Point your mobile browser to m.spotisquare.com. You can just use Spotisquare to check-in on Foursquare, but it also connects Foursquare venues with Spotify playlists. When you find a venue that has a Spotify playlist, you can listen to it in Spotify, and also add your own songs to it."
spotify
foursquare
mobile
music
geo
via:chrisdodo
location
june 2010 by ohskylab
Google Mapplets - Google Code
april 2010 by ohskylab
"Mini-applications that run within Google Maps. You can create Mapplets that add new features or overlay your data on Google Maps."
development
javascript
maps
geo
ajax
api
web
googlemaps
google
april 2010 by ohskylab
KrazyDad » Blog Archive » Mayor of the North Pole
march 2010 by ohskylab
"Last Sunday, while checking into the Hill Street Cafe in Burbank using the foursquare iPhone app, I idly wondered, “Can I become the mayor of the North Pole?” So I tried checking into a nearby 7-Eleven. It worked. I tried the Griffith Observatory about 5 miles away. It worked. I tried Disneyland, which is about an hour away. It didn’t work, but I now had an afternoon hacking project."
api
geo
gps
hacks
location
mobile
foursquare
security
spam
geotagging
march 2010 by ohskylab
Peak District Tour, Map and Compass Training
december 2009 by ohskylab
"This map and compass training course in the Peak District will introduce you to the basic skills needed for safe and effective independent navigation."
orienteering
geo
navigation
walking
training
peakdistrict
december 2009 by ohskylab
The Reverse Geocache Puzzle ™ | Arduiniana
november 2009 by ohskylab
"Mounted into the lid, perhaps incongruously, are an illuminated button, a small display, and a mysterious module that sharp-eyed readers might recognize as a GPS..."
geo
hardware
gps
arduino
geocaching
electronics
top
via:kevan
november 2009 by ohskylab
Web services — geological maps & earthquake data — British Geological Survey (BGS)
september 2009 by ohskylab
"We are making more of our geological data available in open formats so that they can be used in mashup type applications within software such as Google Earth (please note the terms and conditions of use for Google's and any other software). We hope these services stimulate innovative uses of our data and promote interoperability."
geo
bgs
data
maps
web
september 2009 by ohskylab
Search onlines databases — British Geological Survey (BGS)
september 2009 by ohskylab
"Many of the BGS's most popular datasets are available to search and view online."
geo
bgs
data
maps
september 2009 by ohskylab
Tile Drawer
august 2009 by ohskylab
"The project lets anyone run their own OpenStreetMap server in the cloud with one-step configuration and zero administration."
osm
geo
maps
web
s3
aws
gis
ec2
cartography
api
august 2009 by ohskylab
Hiding data, content and technology in real world games
july 2009 by ohskylab
"We’ve combined some fun things, a treasure hunt / i-spy game which you play using your mobile, which generates a list of everything you’ve seen at an event (in an end of school holiday essay style), with geotagging and analytics. Your mobile number is the tracking cookie. We call the game And I Saw...”
games
arg
sms
geo
christhorpe
jaggeree
july 2009 by ohskylab
pachube :: connecting environments, patching the planet
july 2009 by ohskylab
"A service that enables you to connect, tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices, buildings and environments around the world. The key aim is to facilitate interaction between remote environments, both physical and virtual."
web
programming
environment
api
internetofthings
pachube
arduino
geo
processing
july 2009 by ohskylab
An iPhone app for Barcelona's bike sharing service - Springwise
june 2009 by ohskylab
"Bicing recently launched a mobile application that consumers can use to get location-based information about bicycle and parking availability. Residents of Barcelona use Bicing by applying for a personal card and then using that card to rent and pay for use of one of the service's 6,000 bicycles. Bicycles can be picked up from and returned to any of 400 stations throughout the city."
iphone
cycling
barcelona
via:eldret_99
geo
june 2009 by ohskylab
Parallel Kingdom - GPS MMORPG for your cell phone
june 2009 by ohskylab
"An online role playing game that places the virtual world on top of the real world using the GPS inside your phone. Attack, chat and interact with your friends and anyone else around you."
mobile
games
iphone
android
geo
gps
arg
mmorpg
ar
june 2009 by ohskylab
GPS MapCard, iPhone App | Imagebakery
june 2009 by ohskylab
"The most distinctive feature of GPS MapCard is that it can display a photo and a map on the same screen and shows an address based on its coordinates. Additionally, it displays date & time and a user comment as well on the map."
maps
geo
iphone
photos
june 2009 by ohskylab
mySociety » Blog Archive » Say hello to Mapumental
june 2009 by ohskylab
"Mapumental is the culmination of an ambition mySociety has had for some time - to take the nation’s bus, train, tram, tube and boat timetables and turn them into a service that does vastly more than imagined by traditional journey planners. In its first iteration it’s specially tuned to help you work out where else you might live if you want an easy commute to work."
mysociety
uk
maps
geo
web
4ip
innovation
june 2009 by ohskylab
Coupious | Mobile Coupons | Now available on the iPhone, iPod Touch and Android!
may 2009 by ohskylab
"A mobile phone app that gives you coupons and deals for businesses around your geographic location." Currently only works in Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
mobile
shopping
iphone
coupons
ecommerce
geo
may 2009 by ohskylab
Yahoo! Placemaker™ Beta - YDN
may 2009 by ohskylab
"Yahoo! Placemaker is a freely available geoparsing Web service. It helps developers make their applications location-aware by identifying places in unstructured and atomic content – feeds, web pages, news, status updates – and returning geographic metadata for geographic indexing and markup."
api
maps
geo
yahoo
lbs
web
may 2009 by ohskylab
scraplab : clarke - an os x fire eagle updater
may 2009 by ohskylab
Ace. "It’s just a toolbar thing that sits there, quietly, using Skyhook’s API to triangulate your location from nearby wifi points, pushing it to Fire Eagle. Yes, it’s YAFEU (Yet Another Fire Eagle Updater)."
fireeagle
mac
osx
tools
geo
tomtaylor
may 2009 by ohskylab
Extending Albion’s Oven
april 2009 by ohskylab
"There’s something delightfully Wallace and Gromitey about Poke’s BakerTweet, but not content with its floury goodness I decided to hack it around a bit. I’ve put together an app which takes the feed from Albion’s Twitter account, checks for updates, filters them (I’m only really interested in bread), and if (according to Fire Eagle) I’m within a mile of the bakery, sends me an SMS." Beautiful.
twitter
fireeagle
baking
sms
poke
arduino
geo
april 2009 by ohskylab
Exporting the past into the future, or, “The Possibility Jelly lives on the hypersurface of the present” « Magical Nihilism
february 2009 by ohskylab
"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.
geo
gps
fireeagle
dopplr
lbs
mobile
design
social
interaction
mattjones
february 2009 by ohskylab
Opening Times
february 2009 by ohskylab
"Enter a UK town or postcode to find out when nearby shops are open". Brilliant.
tools
shopping
uk
maps
geo
fireeagle
via:kevan
february 2009 by ohskylab
Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Things I’m Standing Next To
february 2009 by ohskylab
"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“."
flickr
geo
social
tomtaylor
nearby
dopplr
photography
history
geohashes
february 2009 by ohskylab
Hublog: Getting a visitor's location (city)
december 2008 by ohskylab
Who knew that "Javascript, IP address-based lookup" had got so simple?
web
javascript
development
geo
location
via:blech
december 2008 by ohskylab
PhotoLocatr: Geotag Photos Taken With Any Digital Camera
december 2008 by ohskylab
Been wanting something like this for ages. Now all I need is an iPhone.
iphone
geo
flickr
gps
december 2008 by ohskylab
HubLog: On A Bus
november 2008 by ohskylab
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."
tools
travel
london
maps
geo
buses
november 2008 by ohskylab
On A Bus
november 2008 by ohskylab
Feed in a London bus route number and it returns a route map. Nice.
via:chrisdodo
tools
travel
london
maps
geo
buses
november 2008 by ohskylab
Nokia - Nokia Map Loader for Mac
november 2008 by ohskylab
"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.
mobile
maps
geo
nokia
mac
osx
november 2008 by ohskylab
Meet LiveGuy - Brought to you by Vodafone
november 2008 by ohskylab
Somebody's been reading Brighton Rock.
mobile
competition
vodafone
dare
geo
november 2008 by ohskylab
WordPress › XML Google Maps « WordPress Plugins
october 2008 by ohskylab
"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.)"
google
googlemaps
wordpress
geo
plugin
web
october 2008 by ohskylab
jMaps Framework Documentation
october 2008 by ohskylab
"A jQuery plugin that provide a easy to use and powerful API for creating dynamic Google Maps."
jquery
web
javascript
googlemaps
geo
october 2008 by ohskylab
Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Introducing Geode
october 2008 by ohskylab
"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."
firefox
extensions
geo
mozilla
lbs
fireeagle
october 2008 by ohskylab
Google's Android Gets Game - Forbes.com
october 2008 by ohskylab
"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."
google
android
wifi
games
mobile
gps
geo
mmo
october 2008 by ohskylab
Nokia To Debut Mobile Lifestreaming App - ReadWriteWeb
september 2008 by ohskylab
"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."
nokia
mobile
lifestreaming
geo
social
gps
september 2008 by ohskylab
Official Google Mobile Blog: New Gears Geolocation API powers mobile web sites
august 2008 by ohskylab
Snuck that one out. Gears is only available for IE on Mobile, which kind of sucks.
lbs
mobile
geo
google
web
august 2008 by ohskylab
My thoughts on Consumer LBS - RussellBeattie.com
august 2008 by ohskylab
Disagree with most of this but an interesting perspective. "Most LBS applications are a black hole of wasted time, effort, money, and opportunity."
web
lbs
geo
mobile
august 2008 by ohskylab
Blog on Fire » Blog Archive » Fire Eagle is open!!
august 2008 by ohskylab
Great intro to Fire Eagle from Coates.
fireeagle
api
lbs
geo
mobile
video
august 2008 by ohskylab
GeoDjango
august 2008 by ohskylab
"Our goal is to make it as easy as possible to build GIS web applications and harness the power of spatially enabled data."
development
geo
django
python
gis
web
august 2008 by ohskylab
Twinkle: location-aware Twittter client for iPhone - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
july 2008 by ohskylab
"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."
iphone
twitter
lbs
geo
software
social
july 2008 by ohskylab
Google Maps API for Flash - Google Code
june 2008 by ohskylab
"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."
flash
maps
geo
google
web
june 2008 by ohskylab
Nokia Sports Tracker Beta
june 2008 by ohskylab
"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."
gps
geo
nokia
n95
walking
mobile
june 2008 by ohskylab
3dtracking
june 2008 by ohskylab
"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."
gps
geo
mobile
walking
n95
free
june 2008 by ohskylab
Location Technologies Primer
june 2008 by ohskylab
"Being location aware is the single most important feature in a mobile device that otherwise suffers in comparison with desktop and laptop Internet devices"
geo
gps
mobile
location
social
techcrunch
june 2008 by ohskylab
A List Apart: Articles: Take Control of Your Maps
april 2008 by ohskylab
"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."
maps
mapping
geo
googlemaps
alistapart
web
april 2008 by ohskylab
Twitter Local
april 2008 by ohskylab
"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"
twitter
local
community
geo
tools
april 2008 by ohskylab
wikinear.com
march 2008 by ohskylab
"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."
fireeagle
oauth
simonwillison
wikipedia
geo
march 2008 by ohskylab
Mapstraction - a javascript library to hide differences between mapping APIs.
january 2008 by ohskylab
"A library that provides a common API for various javascript mapping APIs to enable switching from one to another as smoothly as possible."
javascript
maps
api
googlemaps
web
geo
january 2008 by ohskylab
24 ways: Unobtrusively Mapping Microformats with jQuery
december 2007 by ohskylab
"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."
jquery
microformats
javascript
maps
googlemaps
web
24ways
geo
december 2007 by ohskylab
Google Mobile Maps PinPoints Your Location Without GPS
november 2007 by ohskylab
"Today, [Google] updated its mobile maps to pinpoint your locations by triangulating between cell towers". Hurrah! Results suck for me, though.
google
mobile
googlemaps
gps
geo
november 2007 by ohskylab
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