Wearing the badge “still beta,” Plazes, the free, network-based geolocation service, now sports a new coat of paint. Among the improvements is the Flash-based badge (above) and a much improved frontpage/dashboard that combines the map of known locations with the map of active users, formerly two separate screens.
On the downside, I sort of miss the [...]

Posted July 20, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: beta, geolocation, gis, location aware, mapping, plazes, still beta. One Comment.

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 Bisson
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 Bisson
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 Bisson
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.

A an old John Udell piece at InfoWorld hints at GeoURLs, but the GoeURL site is down, and has been for a while. The concept sounds interesting: you mark pages with coordinates, then use GIS to map those pages to geographic locations, finding pages and people of interest along the way.
To join GeoURL, you add [...]

Posted November 26, 2004 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: geographic, geolocation, gis, map, metadata, semantic web. One Comment.