O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 Conference isn’t until the end of May, but Google just released two sweet new map-related features: GeoRSS support and MyMaps.
The GeoRSS support means that any application that can output it’s geocoding — as simple as <georss:point>45.256 -71.92</georss:point> — can now be linked to a live map with no more effort than it [...]

Posted April 11, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: geo, geocoding, georss, google, local search, loosely linked, mapping, maps, mashups, mymaps. 2 Comments.

This post started with Ryan sending me this link demonstrating a KML overlay of county borders of his bifurcated state in Google Maps.
Then I found this Roundup of Google’s Geo Developer Day (btw, I so wanted to be at Where 2.0) with tales of the new geocoding feature of the Google Maps API, more details [...]

Posted June 16, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Blink, Technology. Tags: geocoding, geographic information systems, geolocation, geotagging, gis, google earth, google maps, kml, sketchup, where 2.0, where20. 97 Comments.

Here’s an interesting GeoPlace.com article on open source GIS tools, including GIS extensions to PosgreSQL and MySQL. Via The Map Room.

tags: geo world, geocode, geocoding, geographic information system, geography, geolocation, gis, gis development, gis guide, gis tools, map room, mapping, mysql, open source, open source gis, open source tools

Posted September 27, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Blink, Technology. Tags: geo world, geocode, geocoding, geographic information system, geography, geolocation, gis, gis development, gis guide, gis tools, map room, mapping, mysql, open source, open source gis, open source tools. Be the first one.

I’m a big fan of the WP Geo plugin, but I want more.
My biggest complaint is that I want to insert coordinates using Google Maps or MultiMap URLs, rather than insert them in the modified story editor. So I wrote a bit of code that reads through the URLs in a post, finds the “maps.google” [...]

Posted September 26, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: beta, blog, blog gis, blogmap, blogmaps, geo, geocoding, geolocation, geotagging, gis, google maps, lat, latitude and longitude, lon, map, mapping, maps, metadata, multimap, plugin, plugins, wordpress, wordpress plugin, wp plugin. 8 Comments.