GeoDjango is so far over my head that it doesn’t meant much to be, but I hear it’s awesome news, so I figured I’d link it up. :) Visit site »
A nice-looking API for adding heat maps as overlays on a Google map. Visit site »
The Brightkite team says their native iPhone app will be out by the end of the month. Great news, because so far, I’m not very impressed with Loopt or Whrrl. Brightkite’s iPhone web version defeats both by a long, long longshot. Visit site »
…and Seattle, the 12th biggest metro in the USA and the area that houses America’s second-largest population of Google employees, still isn’t one of them. WTF?! Visit site »
Eye-Fi, the already-cool line of WiFi enabled SD cards, just added a new trick to its bag: geocoding. The cards use WiFi triangulation (the same technology used in Apple’s iPhone) to determine your location and embed the data in each photo’s EXIF data. Unfortunately, this is never 100% accurate, like GPS technology would be (which probably is a dealbreaker for me). Still, at $130, this a is clever and affordable solution to quickly geotagging your photos. Visit site »
Two words: Hell. Yes. Visit site »
I was checking out the Yelp APIs for an entirely different reason tonight when I noticed they have a neighborhoods API. I don’t know how new this is, but I was under the impression that urbanmapping was the only freely available neighborhoods API (it’s the one I use for geocoded content here on jeffcroft.com). At least for Seattle, Yelp’s neighborhood list doesn’t look as complete (or at least as granular) as urbanmapping’s. It’s missing such common neighborhoods as Lower Queen Anne, South Lake Union, and Interbay (I would imagine queries against Yelp’s API for Lat/Lng pairs in these ‘hoods just return the larger regions of Queen Anne, Downtown, and Magnolia, respectively). I’ll stick with urbanmapping, but it’s nice to know there’s another choice out there. Visit site »
Sweet! Compare, for fun:
Flickr: Seattle JeffCroft.com Seattle
It shouldn’t be a surprise that I really like this idea! Visit site »
Nice stuff. I can’t figure out why the iPhone doesn’t use cell tower data for location-based services. It seems so simple, doesn’t require GPS hardware, and is good enough for 90% of the use cases. Visit site »
Holy shit. Google wins. This is freaking awesome. Visit site »
In which I note a new feature on the site — the integration of Flickr geo data so that you can browse my photos by location.
Booyah! This looks hot. Can’t wait to play with it. Visit site »