Archive for the 'geolocation' Category

GeoMaker - geo locations as microformats or a map from texts or URLs

As preparation for an upcoming tech talk about Placemaker I thought it would be good to take a bit of the pain out of the geolocation service by making an interface for it. Placemaker works the following way: you post some content or a URL to it, it goes through the content or gets the [...]

GeoFill - find users by IP or lookup and prefill forms for them

One thing that annoys me is that in the days of geolocation and location recognition I still have to enter my country and city in forms over and over again. This is especially annoying when you like in the UK which could be anywhere in these wonderful large dropdowns (UK, England, Great Britain, United Kingdom, [...]

navigator.geolocation now available in Firefox via Geode

When I posted about using navigator.geolocation now the only support that I had was via Gears and the ClientLocation API. I wrote the shim to try to get you the W3C API no matter what, and today we have the first implementation in a browser, via Geode.
Geode is the latest project in Mozilla Labs that [...]