In the privacy of our homes The best thing about working at Flickr is that my coworkers all love the site and product ideas can come from anyone. Recently, the Flickr staff had to work from home while our office was disassembled and relocated a few floors down. A chance to sleep in and start [...]
An update on our Maps APIs and Geo services.
This project was recognized as the best hack for social good presented at Open Hack EU.
We are pleased to announce the availability of new YQL tables for Yahoo! GeoPlanet. We welcome your feedback on the YDN Forum for GeoPlanet.
Ryan Bateman hacked a little JavaScript + YQL to geoplace the images from www.shorpy.com, a website that scans images from the American National Archive. Here’s how he did it.
Using Yahoo! Placemaker, you can analyze any text and pinpoint any geographical locations in it. Wrapped in a browser extension, this can be pretty powerful — try my Geo This! app.
Today we announce the public release of Yahoo! PlaceFinder, a REST Web service that provides consistent multi-language global geocoding of named places.
Always wanted to know which sights are around you right now? Using YUI, YQL and some geo platforms you can do that in a few lines of code.
Location-based services are a hot topic at the moment. See which services Yahoo! offers to give your products spatial awareness.
Announcing the beta concordance enhancements to GeoPlanet, Yahoo! Geo’s resource for managing all geo-permanent named places on Earth. This is a first step towards a geographic Rosetta Stone for all the namespaces used to identify place.
The Yahoo GeoPlanet data is a very rich set of geographical information. With this new YQL/YUI driven interface it has become much easier for you to navigate through it.
Yesterday, on Twitter I noticed references to an article from Infoworld titled “Tech meccas: The 12 holy sites of IT.” It occurred to me this would be an easy proof of concept for GeoMaker, a handy little application created by YDN developer evangelist, Chris Heilmann.
GeoMaker, the simple interface to turn texts into maps using Yahoo! Placemaker, just got a feature upgrade and is now available on GitHub as open source. Check it out and impress your boss.
Placemaker allows you to inject geo information in content in a pretty easy fashion. Here’s a video of an introductory talk to Placemaker and a script you can use to plot any RSS feed onto a map.
Placemaker is an exciting geolocation tool to make the web more interesting for mobile web surfers. Find out all about using Placemaker and see some implementations, like Geomaker, created as a recent weekend project by YDN’s Chris Heilmann.
