Geotags.org > Converting Irish street names to coordinates
[ Spatial Ireland] Thanks to John Handelaar, Ireland now has a free rudimentary service to obtain coordinates for a given street name. Free geocoding services (such as geocoder.us for the USA) are critical to the development of useful spatially-aware applications for the public, such as online mapping services, since coordinates are fundamental to the analysis and processing of spatial information.
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Cork Blogs: John Handelaar (via Cosmos)
It Always Rains In Wales: If nothing else, pop across to Nate’s site and check out what happens when you crawl in from the pub at 3am and have access to all the latest technology. I’m sometimes so glad I’m a Luddite! (via Cosmos)
Advanced Technology Products Interactive - BlogHoster: Try it yourself, a very handy way of giving directions.http://handelaar.org/blog/2006/01/the-holy-grail-of-irish-mapping Correction: Map was a bit off, first time and I was too tired today to notice. Luckly I asked EirePreneur something and he brought it to my attention. (via Cosmos)
John Handelaar | Cork, Ireland +353 21 427 9033: TheGeocoder is back. For now. (via Cosmos)
martin's blog | easyweb.co.uk: Put in a street address and town in Ireland, and out pops a lat/long pair and a Google Map to go with. With which, we discover that my sister lives in a field. (via Cosmos)
EirePreneur: Thanks toJohn Handelaar's wonderful geocoding hack for addresses in Ireland, I've been able to revisit my Limerick Pubs & Restaurants subnode of the Open Irish Directory and quickly add a map link for each item. (via Cosmos)
Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits: Check out Tim's GMapper. This guy has discovered a method to automaticallygeocode photos and display them on maps generated by Google Maps. (via Cosmos)
Justinsomnia: For the WordPress geeks out there, I stored this data as a custom field called geographic_coordindate in the format latitude,longitude;location where location was a short description of the specific location. This was especially useful for posts with multiple coordindates. (via Cosmos)
Spatial Ireland: where this results in multiple possible valid postal addresses the user can select one address from a list. Unfortunately there seems to no ability to verify batches of addresses, limiting this service’s utility for many users, and for businesses in particular. (via Cosmos)
the 60 billion $$ man: MobilePro Corp., whose NeoReach Wireless division is rapidly becoming a major player in the citywide wireless development marketplace, has been named as the company to build and deploy the network. The company has contracts in other Arizona cities including Chandler, Gilbert, and Tempe, so it seems they have cornered the Arizona market when it comes to citywide wireless. (via Cosmos)
isnoop.net blog: When I was notified Google-scraping geocoding wasn't working anymore (never screen scrape without setting a failure mechansim), I pulled the code and provided a nice message for my site’s visitors. Google dropped the block shortly thereafter, and I hear they gave my mom flowers and apologized for that regrettable shin thing. (via Cosmos)
Mission Data Blog: I’ve been evaluating a couple different mapping software packages recently and the other day I noticed that the same addresses geocoded (for those who don’t know what geocoding is you can find out more about it here) to different locations. They are mostly the same but I figured it was interesting enough to do some more digging and see how different mapping services compared.I looked at the following services. (via Cosmos)
Chris's blog | DSLRBlog: service works with Nokia 60 series mobile phones and allows you to send your cameraphone photographs to Flickr along with your location and coordinates. GeoTagging, sometimes referred to asGeocoding, is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media such as websites, RSS feeds or images. (via Cosmos)
Random Connections: Using the Geocoder.us scripts, you can enter any address and get the lat/long coordinates. Another free geocoder from InfoSports uses the Google map interface to allow users to browser to a location and place a marker, which returns the coordinates. (via Cosmos)
Web 2.0 Technologies: Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server (via Cosmos)
Socialist Software: del.icio.us Ruby on Rails 1.1: Web 2.0 on Rocket Fuel (web2.wsj2.com) sorttable: Make all your tables sortablegeocoder.us: a free US address geocoder (via Cosmos)
gundy dot org: Anyway, If you are on the Planet, please send me your longitude and latitude so I can place you on the map. Point us to your home, work or a park near by. (via Cosmos)
[Radar.oreilly.com] O'Reilly Radar > Directions Microformat -> Google for directions?: It can take zip codes, neighborhoods, states, cities, etc and be useful in translating names to (X,Y,Z) coordinates. It is important to acknowledge the inaccuracy inherent in this because latitude, longitude, and altitude (LLA) records a precise place but names are rarely so precise.
[Scimag.com] Scientific Computing: TerraServer USA is a service provided by Microsoft in conjunction with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and other partners as a research project in advanced database technology development. It accepts either an address or latitude and longitude coordinates, optionally returning a topographic map, aerial or satellite images.
[Gpstracklog.typepad.com] gps tracklog: "The GPSMap 376c GPS offers everything you need for marine navigation in a single space-saving package, including satellite weather reception, GPS functionality, marine chartplotting, and a brilliant, sunlight-readable color TFT screen. The device centers its built-in marine basemap, which is expandable via separately sold data cards programmed with BlueChart or Fishing Hot Spots maps.
[Cre8asiteforums.com] Local Search - why don't people use geo-coordinates more ...: The day after I launched the newsletter, I saw a two day old blog entry that someone has now started using geo-coordinates to provide a map of bloggers. His name is Chandu Thota and he works for Microsoft but this is his own private venture.
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