Category Archives: geotagging

The EveryBlock Blog: New feature: custom locations

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"[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

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"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."

Wired: I Am Here: One Man’s Experiment With the Location-Aware Lifestyle

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"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."

Inside Guardian.co.uk: guardian.co.uk goes geotagging and gets Google maps

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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."