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But the W3C saw, or was made to see, the writing on the wall and built a set of standard APIs into HTML5 for just this case and most modern browsers have picked it up. The draft for the spec is http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html if you want to read it through or need further info. The API is pretty marvelously simple. This implementation changes the URL to return latitude and longitude when they are available, which we can use in our Django view. Plus, the same code works on mobile devices (at least the iOS ones I carry) with no changes.

On Wikimedia Commons, geocoding is the practice of attaching geographic location information to media. When we geocode media on commons we identify the latitude and longitude from where the media was recorded and attach it to the description page using a {{Location}} or {{Location dec}} template. For jpeg images, geodata can also be stored in the image exif.

The SQL database behind IPInfoDB is offered for free. We offer the database in different formats (SQL, CSV), city or country precision, 3 or 4 IP digits precision and data in single or multiple tables. Available information in the database : ISO country code, country name, FIPS region code, region name, city, zipcode, latitude, longitude and timezone. The database is updated during the first week of each month.

karl | March 24, 2010 6:00 AM | Reply

please, please, please,

it would be great to add geotagging, geolocation ala HoudahGeo.

Select picture or sets of pictures, drag and drop on a map, get the latitude and longitude written back in the EXIF.

Also infer WOEID (WhereOnEarth Id) from the Location information specified in country, city, etc.

People also want to know when their friends were nearby, but it's not always convenient to keep checking Latitude to see if a friend has recently shown up near you. After working on this for a while, we realized it wasn't as straightforward as sending a notification every time Latitude friends were near each other. Imagine that you're Latitude friends with your roommate or co-workers. It would get pretty annoying to get a text message every single time you walked in the door at home or pulled into work. To avoid this, we decided to make Location Alerts smarter by requiring that you also enable Location History. Using your past location history, Location Alerts can recognize your regular, routine locations and not create alerts when you're at places like home or work. Alerts will only be sent to you and any nearby friends when you're either at an unusual place or at a routine place at an unusual time. Keep in mind that it may take up to a week to learn your "unusual" locations and start sending alerts.

Privacy Notice

* Your history will not be visible publicly or to your Latitude friends.

* You may delete your entire location history or portions of it whenever you like.

* Disabling the feature will not remove existing history already stored. To delete that, go to History management.

Project: GoodMorning!

Date: August, 2009

Language: Processing

Key Concepts: Spherical coordinates, latitude & longitude conversion, Twitter API, MetaCarta API

Earlier this year we announced Google Latitude, a service that lets you and your friends share your locations with each other. You control who gets to see your location and where on the map you appear to others. Today, we're releasing Google Latitude for iPhone and iPod touch, available in the Safari browser.

I Am Here Map is a Javascript library to create and embedded map to find the

latitude and longitude of a point, using the ModestMaps Javascript API.

It also supports geocoding, reverse-geocoding and automagic client positioning

using a variety of geolocation providers as well as the ability to display shape

contours for locations that have been reverse-geocoded.