Tag Archives: Geocoding

Map Service APIs

Both Google and Yahoo! have announced APIs for their mapping services. I’ve already gotten a developer key for the Google service. But it doesn’t support address searches, only lat/lon coordinates. So I’m thinking about applying for a Yahoo! key, using their service for geocoding (translating from street addresses to coordinates), then using Google’s mapping interface with all of its Ajaxy goodness.

I don’t know what I plan to actually do with this stuff, or when I’d find time to do it. [...]

More Mapping Goodness

Yesterday was just full of map references. Another cool thing I found out about is the Jabber World Map. If you are a Jabber user, you can register with the map notifier, and your status will show up on the map. [...]

Mapping Blogspace

Geography rules.

I’ve been trying to work out some sort of concensus for how to include location info in FOAF files. [...]