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 Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: geo, geocoding, georss, google, local search, loosely linked, mapping, maps, mashups, mymaps. 2 Comments.

In yet more geolocation news, beermapping.com’s maps to breweries will make my travel planning easier, and my travels boozier.
Hey, it’s casual Friday, take off early and go find a new brewpub for lunch.
beermapping.com, brew maps, breweries, brewery, brewpub, casual friday, geolocation, mapping, maps

Posted July 21, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless., Style, Fashion and Food, Travel. Tags: beermapping.com, brew maps, breweries, brewery, brewpub, casual friday, geolocation, mapping, maps. 3 Comments.

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.

It would reasonably appear that here in the US, there’s only one map site: good ol’ Google. But until Google adds maps for countries other than the US, Canada, and UK, the rest of the world will have to look elsewhere. Enter the UK competitor: Multimap.com has been serving the world outside the bubble since [...]

Posted July 20, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: aerial photographs, chernobyl, google, map, map site, mapping, maps, maps of the world, multimap, online maps, rest of the world, road maps. 207 Comments.

Geolocation by GPS my be the most straightforward approach, but we mustn’t forget the other ways to get lat/lon coordinates.
All current cell phones support aGPS positioning to comply with federal E-911 mandates, but not all phones make it easy for the user to get that information out of them. Still, some do and GPS-enabled moblogging [...]

Posted June 13, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: agps, cell phone, coordinates, geolocation, gps, lattitude, longitude, map, mapping, maps, moblogging, network, networking application, palm, picture phone, social networking, wifi. 5 Comments.