The EveryBlock Blog: New feature: custom locations
Friday, 28 August 2009, 18:57
"[T]he boundaries of a neighborhood don't necessarily correspond to the boundaries of the area you're interested in … [W]e've decided to address this problem once and for all, and we're incredibly excited about our new approach. Today, we're launching a feature that puts the control of geographic boundaries in your own hands."
Poynter Online: How EveryBlock Code is Being Used to Develop Location-Based Journalism
Saturday, 4 July 2009, 10:02
"Over and over again, the growing importance of location awareness in journalism — the ability to connect the events of the day to a particular spot on the planet — was mentioned, along with EveryBlock's role in paving the way for more news organizations to deliver news by location."
Official Google Blog: Google becomes more local
Tuesday, 7 April 2009, 06:14
"[W]e've just finished the worldwide rollout of local search results on a map, which will now appear even when you don't type in a location. When you search on Google, we will guess where you are and show results near you."
Wired: I Am Here: One Man’s Experiment With the Location-Aware Lifestyle
Sunday, 25 January 2009, 16:18
"I became a geo-guinea pig. My plan: Load every cool and interesting location-aware program I could find onto my iPhone and use them as often as possible. For a few weeks, whenever I arrived at a new place, I would announce it through multiple social geoapps. … The trouble started right away."
Mashable: Use Your iPhone to Get News Happening Around You
Tuesday, 13 January 2009, 23:26
"Radar, powered by Outside.in is a brand new iPhone application that uses the devices’ GPS capabilities to locate you and display nearby news, blog posts, discussion threads, and tweets happening within 1,000 feet of your location."
Inside Guardian.co.uk: guardian.co.uk goes geotagging and gets Google maps
Saturday, 11 October 2008, 12:57
Paul Carvill: "We have published our first article containing geolocation data! We introduced this feature in the US Elections blog pages to track our reporters as they travel with the presidential election campaigns. On those pages you can see a Google map with the points marked where our reporter wrote a blogpost. … . We are using the GeoRSS Simple location encoding standard."
Macworld: Geotag your digital photos
Monday, 6 October 2008, 09:23
Good roundup of hardware and software solutions for geotagging photos on a Mac.
LiverpoolEcho.co.uk: News in Merseyside
Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 17:33
The Liverpool Echo's new geocoded news stories.
MediaGuardian.co.uk: Trinity Mirror to launch map-based news service on regional websites
Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 17:31
"Trinity Mirror has launched a map-based news service on the Liverpool Echo website and plans to expand it across its other regional sites. The site will geo-tag news stories so users can search for news stories via postcode."
Tuesday, 22 July 2008, 20:47
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"I’m delighted to see the Royal Mail doing the right thing, and allowing people entering the ShowUsABetterWay.com government data re-use competition to have access to the full postcode PAF dataset."
Thursday, 26 June 2008, 11:18
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Interesting PCC ruling that could have future implications for newspapers’ geotagging efforts. Also interesting because the existence of a Wikipedia article is part of the justification for allowing newspapers to report information.
Wednesday, 25 June 2008, 22:13
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"The UK has one of the planet’s more granular postcoding systems, with each of the nation’s 1.8m individual postcodes covering on average 15 houses. In IT terms, that’s a remarkably accurate piece of geocoding data…"
Saturday, 14 June 2008, 11:07
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"Boston.com, a regional online portal and Web site for the Boston Globe is adding … geographic search and referencing technology of MetaCarta … to provide users with highly-localized content."
Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 17:17
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Germany’s Handelsblatt says the combination of Google Earth and Google News means the search giant is now in a position to move onto local papers’ advertising turf through geocoded news. Of course this isn’t really Google’s first step into local, but that
