Javascript XML parsing for GML and you
You find the need to determine the locations of your visitors, and you wonder how to do this? Surely it’s impossible. Alas, it is not. Services like HostIP provide the ability to locate your users...
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GreaseRoute – Mapping the web
I’ve been fairly quiet for the past couple of weeks. I’ve been focused on some projects, including entries to the MapQuest OpenAPI developers’ competition. One of my entries, which may or may not...
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Bluelogger GPS
For the past several months I’ve been playing with the Delorme Bluelogger GPS. It’s a very nice GPS receiver in its own right, but has the unique feature (for BT receivers) of including onboard...
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Hijacking site functionality
A couple of days ago I mentioned some Greasemonkey scripts I wrote. One of them, which I didn’t discuss, is particularly devious. What happens when users have the ability to hijack sites and how they...
View ArticleMesh networks and the beginning of borg
Last night I got to attend a talk given by Robin Chase, Founder and Former CEO of Zipcar. Her talk was titled “Sustainable Transportation and Accessibility Research & Transformation”, where she...
View ArticleGoing to Where?
So, I’ll be making it to the Where 2.0 conference coming up in San Jose, CA, June 13-14. I’m super excited to meet a lot of people I’ve corresponded with, but haven’t had the chance to meet yet. The...
View ArticleA monolithic or flexible geo-tool?
What I really need and want is a really flexible and useful “geo-tool” software application. I have been gathering a lot of waypoints, tracks, location histories, notes, geo-photographs, etc. Yet when...
View ArticleEye-Fi – gps camera, easy
Eye-Fi produces a card, Eye-Film, that is an SD card that can geolocate photos taken on it. This is an incredibly smart and easy way to add location to photos and still use any camera you choose. It...
View ArticleGeoNames supports reverse geocoding
GeoNames is YAG (yet another geocoder), but behind the curtains lie many cool features. The most unique of which is a reverse geocoder. Reverse geocoding is converting Latitude & Longitude to a...
View ArticleIndoor location tracking projects
SlashGeo picked up on a recent Geowanking mailing list discussion of indoor location tracking options. I decided to pull all of the responses together into a single list for easy clickage. I would also...
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Hype Analysis of Location-Aware technology
The Gartner Hype Report has some interesting analysis of where various technologies currently lie along the hype curve. Particularly interesting to me is the analysis of LBS. Location-aware...
View ArticleGeo your Wiki
Rui Carmo of Tao of Mac has a good rundown of what the “found nugget” of Google url in iPhoto means. Really, very little. Besides, being a programmer, I toss in all kinds of little bits for testing and...
View ArticleArise the Geo bubble
With the rise of geographic-interest via map mashups, mobile location, and geotags, there is now a slew of sites rising up to start aggregating and collecting all the of the localized information and...
View ArticleGeo Games
Brady on O’Reilly Radar posted about Backseat Playground, a geolocation based game that tracks the location of a car and gives clues along the way for various mysteries and puzzles. (originally via...
View ArticleiPod/Nike kit hacking & hype
The iPod/Nike kit is a really interesting use of some fairly new technology made really easy for most any person to just pick up and start using. Based on experimenting by devs/hackers, they’ve figured...
View ArticleWiFi Positioning goes mainstream
GigaOM is carrying the story about SkyHook’s WiFi positioning technology will be integrated into SiRF’s next generation GPS chips. What this means is that hardware devices will be able to use a single...
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Why the iPhone doesn’t need GPS
You may be surprised to hear me say this, but here is it — the iPhone doesn’t need GPS. Macworld disagrees (via Directions Magazine). Specifically, Macworld said: Add GPS support … [the iPhone] would...
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FireEagle Officially Launched
Yahoo Brickhouse finally released their new shiny FireEagle service. If you haven’t heard of it before, FireEagle is a user location brokering system. No more, no less. It provides a secure...
View ArticleTwitter Location API
Ryan Sarver shares the info on Twitter’s new location API. Looks really simple, and really nice. curl -u USERNAME:PASSWORD -d location="Arlington, VA" http://twitter.com/account/update_location.json...
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Visualizing Restaurant Searching
One of the simplest, most useful, and well executed applications on the iPhone is UrbanSpoon’s free restaurant finder. Open the application, it geolocates you, give the iPhone and shake and three Slot...
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