Geo-applications for mobile devices like GeoPlanet and Placemaker can pinpoint your location much like a GPS and direct to landmarks and other destinations.
Thursday, April 8th, 2010
Geolocation functionality is hot. Every app you see now wants to ID where you're at and help you find cool things around you. The great thing is that building this functionality into your applications is getting easier and easier. For example, Eric Ferraiuolo wanted to create an app that showed off the features in YUI Read the rest...
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Category: Geo, JavaScript
, Library
I just finished doing some talks on geo hacking (slides are available here) and how to use some of the Geo technologies Yahoo and Google provide as part of a University gig in Atlanta. As a lot of the students liked the idea of APIs like GeoPlanet and Placemaker but had a hard time getting Read the rest...
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
One of the things I always want to do with online maps is rotate them - I am used to that with real, physical maps. As physical maps become a lot more clever these days (for example have you seen the zoomable map?) it is time we can do this with the online ones, too. Read the rest...
Friday, January 29th, 2010
Category: Examples, Geo
, Google
, JavaScript
, Mapping
, Yahoo!
As part of an upcoming article on geo location I am putting together a few Geo Toys for myself and here is the first one. Addmap.js is a JavaScript that analyses an elements text content, finds geographical locations and links them to Google Maps. It also adds a map preview and a list of the Read the rest...
Caching and dynamic views
My client does not want to change his cache settings on IE and I'm trying to figure out a way to dynamically update a view each time it is visited. I...
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