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[Phil Sturgeon News] Over the last few weeks I have been doing plenty of work with geolocation and reverse geolocation directly in JavaScript, PHP and Ruby using mostly the Google Map's API. For the majority of map work the Google Map API is fine, but once you go past basic plotting of items on the map, comparing distance, etc and start trying to reverse geocode, everything gets a lot more complicated.

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[Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog] Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog: Simple introduction to Google Maps: Luckily this is possible via JavaScript as well, but you are limited to 2500 requests per day. (See details here.) I'd probably suggest geocoding server side and doing it one time only as opposed to on the fly .

[Ben Nadel ColdFusion, jQuery, And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com] Geocoding A User's Location Using Javascript's GeoLocation API: As you can see here, Firefox has obtained my location - with about a mile or two accuracy - and has plotted the point on the Google map. Only the getCurrentPosition() callback gets invoked because the position of my browser will not change (or become more accurate over time).

[Geotags.org] Geotags.org: Device Geolocation | drupal.org: Provides visitor's geographical location using client device location source that implements W3C Geolocation API (with Google Gears as fallback) whereas the coordinates are geocoded using Google Geocoding service.

[Kevin Wilson's Posterous] Geolocation JavaScript - Kevin Wilson's Posterous: Looks up the user's location using the Google geocoding API. var _googleLocation = function (successCallback, failCallback) {. if (_canUseGoogle()) {. _log("Google geolocation available");. var location = google.loader.ClientLocation; ...

[Techtorial - Eric Irwin] A Bone to Pick with Google about Google Geocoding API « Techtorial ...:  Recently while seaching the API documentation for status codes on validating addresses, I came across the following remark regarding Usage Limits.

[The Map Room] The Map Room: Google Maps Update: KML, Geocoder, Enterprise: The API now supports geocoding (for several countries). Google Maps for Enterprise ”” presumably a solution that does not have the free API 's requirement that a mashup .

[MailChimp Email Marketing Blog] Geolocation Tracking added to MailChimp | MailChimp Email ...: For example, if someone normally checks their email from London, and one day she opens one of your emails from Miami, we know she’s just on vacation, and we don’t update her profile. But if, on average, most of her email interactions start coming from Miami, we will assume she’s moved, and we’ll update her geolocation profile for you accordingly.

[Alastair Aitchison] The W3C Geolocation API, Internet Explorer 9, and Bing Maps: It’s good to see that IE9 has adopted the geolocation standard (and note that Microsoft really has adopted the standard - I didn’t have to do any browser-specific hacks to make this test work across the three browsers), but I still stand by my previous conclusion of the geolocation standard - it’s just not yet at a point where it can add much practical value.

[Malik's Blog] Malik's Blog » How to geotag photos in digiKam using google maps ...: The first option (default) is the marble virtual globe which uses the open street map and google maps.  Open street map is good and it has many good features, however it is not just powerful enough compared to google maps, here an understanding is necessary, it is the fact that google maps is designed by google which is a multi billion dollar company which has many and resources that openstreetmaps do not have. The only reason that i prefer google maps over open street map is that the Map of the Maldives is much more complete.

[Jatin kacha's Blog] How to call Google MAP Webservice API from asp.net, call Geocoding ...: The Google Maps API lets you embed Google Maps in your own web pages with JavaScript. The API provides a number of utilities for manipulating maps and adding content to the map through a variety of services, allowing you to create robust maps applications on your website.

[The Map Room] The Map Room: Google Maps: UK Geocoder, Palm OS Application: In the meantime, here are a couple of Google Maps-related items: geocoding for UK addresses is now available through the API, and a new version of Google Maps for the Palm OS (see previous entry) has been released.

[Ben Nadel ColdFusion, jQuery, And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com] Creating Fuzzy Latitude And Longitude Values With A Given Amount ...: In this case, I have only randomized one of the coordinates in order to illustrate the distribution. However, when put into practice, both the latitude and longitude would be randomized.

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