#geo (96 links)
- StreetComplete streetcomplete.app
Help improve OpenStreetMap with StreetComplete! This app finds missing map data in your vicinity and displays it on a map as quests. Solve each quest by visiting the location on-site and answering a simple question to update the map.
- Maps to GPX mapstogpx.com
This tool accepts a link to pre-made Google Directions and converts them to a GPX file. This file can be uploaded and used in sat-nav and GPS units.
- Personalised Coordinate Art Prints – The Drifting Bear Co. thedriftingbear.com
- map school: a free introduction to geo mapschool.io
- Ideal Postcodes ideal-postcodes.co.uk
A cheap, no-fuss and fast UK postcode lookup API for web and mobile developers. We license Royal Mail's Postcode Address File and make it available to developers at a fair price. One flat price of 2p per postcode lookup.
A bit more about why I remain very optimistic about @foursquare, and what the company needs to do going forward: http://t.co/SOJo5g6Si6
Via blech.
- Leaflet - a modern, lightweight JavaScript library for interactive maps by CloudMade leaflet.cloudmade.com · Archived on
- Google’s New Places API | Think Vitamin thinkvitamin.com
Now you have a massive, global, ever-growing database of places which you can use for your web app.
- MapCrunch - Random Google Street View mapcrunch.com
...melted my brain.
- Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Working with multi-regional websites googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
Via alastc.
Web UI for (batch) geocoding of UK postcodes with the (accurate!) Google Local Search API.
- Polymaps polymaps.org
A JavaScript library for image- and vector-tiled maps using SVG.
- Proximity for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store itunes.apple.com
"Proximity is a location-based alarm that allows you to set *where* you want to wake up, as opposed to *when*." Close, but would like to see something a little more general that could trigger a range of actions depending on location.
- Display your foursquare checkins on Google Maps the easy way aboutfoursquare.com
Basically paste your KML feed into the Google Maps search box.
Via peter.costello.
A mobile web app that connects music to places. Point your mobile browser to m.spotisquare.com. You can just use Spotisquare to check-in on Foursquare, but it also connects Foursquare venues with Spotify playlists. When you find a venue that has a Spotify playlist, you can listen to it in Spotify, and also add your own songs to it.
Via chrisdodo.
- NetworkLocation - Manage settings on your Mac networklocationapp.com
- Google Mapplets - Google Code code.google.com
Mini-applications that run within Google Maps. You can create Mapplets that add new features or overlay your data on Google Maps.
- KrazyDad » Blog Archive » Mayor of the North Pole krazydad.com
Last Sunday, while checking into the Hill Street Cafe in Burbank using the foursquare iPhone app, I idly wondered, “Can I become the mayor of the North Pole?” So I tried checking into a nearby 7-Eleven. It worked. I tried the Griffith Observatory about 5 miles away. It worked. I tried Disneyland, which is about an hour away. It didn’t work, but I now had an afternoon hacking project.
- Peak District Tour, Map and Compass Training tourdust.com
This map and compass training course in the Peak District will introduce you to the basic skills needed for safe and effective independent navigation.
Ugly but useful.
We are making more of our geological data available in open formats so that they can be used in mashup type applications within software such as Google Earth (please note the terms and conditions of use for Google's and any other software). We hope these services stimulate innovative uses of our data and promote interoperability.
Many of the BGS's most popular datasets are available to search and view online.
I've heard that [this is good].
- Hiding data, content and technology in real world games slideshare.net
"We’ve combined some fun things, a treasure hunt / i-spy game which you play using your mobile, which generates a list of everything you’ve seen at an event (in an end of school holiday essay style), with geotagging and analytics. Your mobile number is the tracking cookie. We call the game And I Saw...”
A service that enables you to connect, tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices, buildings and environments around the world. The key aim is to facilitate interaction between remote environments, both physical and virtual.
- trails - Intuitive GPS tracking on the iPhone trails.lamouroux.de
Via headlessness.
Bicing recently launched a mobile application that consumers can use to get location-based information about bicycle and parking availability. Residents of Barcelona use Bicing by applying for a personal card and then using that card to rent and pay for use of one of the service's 6,000 bicycles. Bicycles can be picked up from and returned to any of 400 stations throughout the city.
Via eldret_99.
- Live Ships Map - AIS - Vessel Traffic and Positions marinetraffic.com
Hubba-hubba.
An online role playing game that places the virtual world on top of the real world using the GPS inside your phone. Attack, chat and interact with your friends and anyone else around you.
- GPS MapCard, iPhone App | Imagebakery imagebakery.tv
The most distinctive feature of GPS MapCard is that it can display a photo and a map on the same screen and shows an address based on its coordinates. Additionally, it displays date & time and a user comment as well on the map.
- mySociety » Blog Archive » Say hello to Mapumental mysociety.org
Mapumental is the culmination of an ambition mySociety has had for some time - to take the nation’s bus, train, tram, tube and boat timetables and turn them into a service that does vastly more than imagined by traditional journey planners. In its first iteration it’s specially tuned to help you work out where else you might live if you want an easy commute to work.
"A mobile phone app that gives you coupons and deals for businesses around your geographic location." Currently only works in Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
- Yahoo! Placemaker™ Beta - YDN developer.yahoo.com
Yahoo! Placemaker is a freely available geoparsing Web service. It helps developers make their applications location-aware by identifying places in unstructured and atomic content – feeds, web pages, news, status updates – and returning geographic metadata for geographic indexing and markup.
Ace. "It’s just a toolbar thing that sits there, quietly, using Skyhook’s API to triangulate your location from nearby wifi points, pushing it to Fire Eagle. Yes, it’s YAFEU (Yet Another Fire Eagle Updater)."
- Fire Eagle Guest Pass slideshare.net
Presentation on ace Fire Eagle hack.
"There’s something delightfully Wallace and Gromitey about Poke’s BakerTweet, but not content with its floury goodness I decided to hack it around a bit. I’ve put together an app which takes the feed from Albion’s Twitter account, checks for updates, filters them (I’m only really interested in bread), and if (according to Fire Eagle) I’m within a mile of the bakery, sends me an SMS." Beautiful.