Geomancering, the word that doesn’t work :(

I love the word Neuromancer, from the Gibson book. For me it works on a several levels and conjures up all sorts of evocative images, it’s a near perfect word. It has that cross between someone who studies and controls the dark arts of Neurology, and a “romancer” of Neurons. That lights up the Mondo2000 [...]

Google Earth in a browser (sort of), Scriptable, a quick peek and poke.

Radar points out that you can now get a ‘Lite’ (my word not theirs) version of Google Earth as a plug-in for IE and FF on Windows only (boo!), more information over here. Which is, you know great. More-so this is the really exciting part, for me anyway … Google Earth, as an application is [...]

Yahoo Woe (Where On Earth, that is) IDs.

Roll up, roll up, roll up, get your WoE IDs here … http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/ … a jolly nice step in the right direction. Yahoo have opened up their geo database (which is pretty good btw) which is far more awesome than I’m going to make it sound in this blog post. I already did a little [...]

Google Map Photos and SuperGeotagged

There’s been a bit of coverage about Google’s new addition to maps.google.com, with VentureBeat probably adding the most opinion about it. Google’s video has it pretty much covered … … Ok, so just a touch deeper at what I think is going on here. Google snapped up the rather wonderful Panoramio a while back, a [...]

Geotagging Goes Mainstream …

… you know officially! Before today we were like totally niche, but now that Microsoft has declared “Geotagging Goes Mainstream” I guess we’re out in the spotlight now. Next thing you know we’ll have major newspapers writing articles about geotagging and everything! All kidding aside this looks like a pretty good tool. I say looks [...]

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