Regarding geo:
Maps, Geo, and Local
Location-based services are an essential element in web app development. We will be evaluating all our Geo, Maps, and Local APIs—updating or shutting down some of them, and working with our strategic partner, Nokia, on others. We will work with our developer community to ensure a smooth transition in all instances and we will share more details about these decisions in September.
- Yahoo Developer Network Blog via @reventazon who RTd @twbell:
by Adena Schutzberg on 08/17 at 01:24 PM |
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U Michigan is perhaps the first major university to tap Foursquare to help boost attendance at its athletic events. “...
the general idea is to use Foursquare to provide deals and tips for fans who attend games at venues like Michigan Stadium and provide more visibility to the university’s lesser known sports by offering incentives to people who attend competitions.”
- AnnArbor.com
Yahoo Japan has acquired location-based advertising company Cirius Technologies based in Tokyo. The Sunnyvale, California office of the 30 person company will close after the acquisition is complete.
- VentureBeat
Per RWW “Marc Harter has released a new web service, command line tool and open source software called Ogre, which transforms geographic data from 16 different formats into GeoJSON, the preferred new format for geolocation web app developers.” Per Slashgeo, it’s a Web client that uses ogr2ogr.
- ReadWriteWeb
Are we ready for yet about API based mapping service? What makes the new player, expected to launch in September, Squ0rk Maps different?
Well the design team of Squork Maps take the view that until now, people have had access to maps and finding places, but unless you have expertise in scripting or coding, putting your own data on the map (plotting pins) has been something few people could do by themselves.
What makes Squork Maps different then is that it enables non technical people to upload, publish, edit and download their data on maps.
The data is your own and the offering sits between ESRI/PBBI solutions and Google Maps/Bing Maps. Can’t find out much more on it.
- eBiz
by Adena Schutzberg on 08/17 at 08:15 AM |
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PlaceFinder updates the existing Yahoo! Map Geododing API (which will run as is until year end) with PlaceFinder, “a REST Web service that provides consistent multi-language global geocoding of named places.” So, not only do you get lat/lon from your address in 75 countries, you get 32 response fields including:
WOEID
Neighborhood
Time Zone
Area Code
Locale Code
Bounding Box Coordinates
And, you get reverse geocoding!
Why? That’s the real question. Yahoo! has been making all kinds of great developer goodies, just nothing that’s turned a developer’s world upside. Even Yahoo’s “end user” goodies are pretty techie (Fire Eagle, which few understood and Pipes, about which I might make the same argument). So, is this for developers or is this part of Yahoo actually getting into the LBS game? If nothing else it is solidifying Yahoo’s tools by integrating WOEID which is used elsewhere. Some are suggesting this is the core of a check-in play in the near future.
- Yahoo Developer Blog
by Adena Schutzberg on 06/22 at 02:41 PM |
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Koprol comes out of Indonesia and the details of the deal were not disclosed. I suspect however Yahoo paid less than the $100M is is said to have offered for Foursquare. Koprol is quite like Foursquare in that users can check-in, find friends and the like. It also depends on its users to build up a database of places, something Yahoo wants to use to help push its users to its many content properties, including Associated Content, which it acquired earlier this month. The acquisition will also help build the brand in Asia.
- V3.co.uk
- press release
by Adena Schutzberg on 05/25 at 07:48 AM |
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