In the midst of a year of considerable upheaval at Yahoo! (or so it would appear from the outside) their developers continue to impress with cool new stuff. Most recently, Microsearch, an experimental search engine that in addition to traditional search techniques, extracts microformats and other metadata (RDF and RDFa) from pages to help improve […]
I briefly referred to Mapstraction in the last article, but wanted to draw a bit more attention to it.
The idea behind Mapstraction is to provide a common API for a large number of mapping services, (like Google maps, Yahoo Maps, and many others) abstracting away the underlying APIs, and providing a Javascript based library to […]
The irrepressible Simon Willison has a fantastic article at this year’s 24 ways about using JQuery to easily add locations marked up as hCard with geo data onto Google Maps, (as well as other mapping services via the very interesting looking Mapstraction)
I’m not sure whether microformats developed my interest in mapping, or my interest in mapping was one thing which lead me to microformats. I think a little bit of both really. I’ve long been fascinated by maps, places, coordinate systems, projections, the great circle route, stuff like that.
Quick quiz - which is closer to Sydney, […]
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I also organize Web Directions North - January 28 - Feb 2 2008