Posts Tagged ‘geodata

The grandaddy of online mapping sites is turning to an open source library for its cartography data. Mapquest, which is owned by AOL, launched a new beta site Friday that uses data from OpenStreetMap. So far, the OpenStreetMap data is only available on MapQuest for the United Kingdom and some of continental Europe, but MapQuest [...]

In the wake of last week’s Chirp conference for third-party Twitter app developers, popular multi-platform client Seesmic is announcing upgrades to its Android application. Changes include a widget, geotagging and native retweet support. However, last week at the conference, Twitter execs announced the company would be rolling out its own native application for the Android [...]

There are several places on the web you can turn if you want to learn how to program. Of course, this very site is the best place to start. Webmonkey has a massive library spanning over 13 years of web tutorials. There’s also Sitepoint and Smashing Magazine and O’Reilly Answers. Today, we’d like to give [...]

The opening of Twitter’s API transformed the service from an interesting web site into the communications plumbing that serves homepages, newsrooms, and smartphones all over the world. With the release of its own API, Foursquare is banking that it can do the same. Developers are now able to tap into the location-based service’s rich data [...]

Twitter has announced a new feature that will give users the ability to send their location with each tweet. The new geotagging API tools are available only through the Twitter API, and are not part of Twitter.com just yet. So, if you’d like to post geodata with your tweets, you’ll need to use a third-party [...]


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