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Am I at WhereCamp5280?

So this week I’m off to WhereCamp5280.  In honor of this I forked Andrew Turner’s “Am I at Where?” github repository and made a new repo specifically for WhereCamp5280.
You can play with the results here.  This was my first time playing around with my iPhone and its in browser geo-location capabilities.  I really should use [...]

August 9, 2009   Posted in: Mash-up, unconferences  No Comments

Twitter/Latitude Location Updater

Today Google opened up the Latitude feed so you can get your Latitude location in a KML or JSON feed.  I have been working on a longer term project to create a Twitter updater service but to play with the Latitude feed I wrote a quick Ruby script.  With the json and twitter gems it [...]

May 4, 2009   Posted in: GIS Programming, Mash-up, Ruby  Comments Closed

Additions to WKTweet.com

Today I added the ever so important ability to show the points you plot on WKTweet.  I ran into some simple XML issues that meant it took some time.   This first was that “<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>” was required in order for the KML to display in Google Maps or Google Earth.  I’m pretty sure I [...]

February 15, 2009   Posted in: Mash-up  Comments Closed

New Project WKTweet.com

Today I created a web client to add Well-Known Text to Twitter.  It involved a lot of javascript and can be seen here.  Originally I had just planned to look for “POINT(” in a search to map everything but it quickly became apparent that wouldn’t work.  I’ve added a hashtag #WKT to each of the [...]

February 8, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Mash-up  Comments Closed

Barackobots KML Link Up

So I spent some time today doing a mashup using Twitter/Google Maps/Google Earth.
Essentially I’m using twitterific to post my location by using the ‘Add Link to Map’ function and wrote some code to get the latitude and longitude out of that link which is just a Google Maps link to a location.  Then I’m feeding [...]

January 18, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Mash-up  Comments Closed