India wants to ban Google Earth and Wikimapia. The aftermath of the Mumbai attacks created a petition to remove all imagery of India on Google Earth and similar sites like Wikimapia. Mumbai-based lawyer Amit Karkhanis filed the petition saying, “The petition is filed against the backdrop of terror attacks in Mumbai. [...]
Continue Reading →Adena at Directions Magazine shared the Mozilla announcement that Geode is coming. Geode is a geolocation add-on for Firefox which will enable localized content. ReadWriteWeb describes it as a tool that “understands location, enabling enriched, personalized, and localized content" and VentureBeat explains it’s a location determination tool, built on the W3C spec, [...]
Continue Reading →Yahoo officially opened their experimental geo-location platform, Fire Eagle, to everyone on Tuesday. The location management service enables users to post their positional data on the web. One of the notable features is privacy. Although users are sharing their location, they can set limitations on what location information can be released. Pownce, [...]
Continue Reading →It is only fitting that the day after I posted “Moving Push Pins Off the Map” I saw the post on Ogle Earth about a new geotagging icon….which is?
A GIANT PUSH PIN!
With my interest peaked we did a [...]
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