Geotagging

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Google Earth KML file for the photographs on my photoblog

A quick tutorial on how I put together a PHP script to serve a Google Earth KML file updated live with all the geo-tagged photos from my photo-blog, stored in MySQL. Rather than having people store the whole, static data file on their local machine, I've created a small, second XML file that uses the element to have Google Earth re-load the data file every hour, so that newly geotagged photos are included as well.

If you have Google Earth installed you should just be able to load the KML data file on this page to see a live version of the links.

( This is a link to an older technology based blog entry I wrote. )

GEO microformat markup added to Wholemap and photoblog

I've added GEO microformat codes to a bunch of the pages at Wholemap (as well as to my photoblog entries). The various Firefox extensions that I have seem to recognize them, but to be quite honest, I'm not sure really how anyone will use them just yet... are there search engines that recognize them? More information about Microformats in general is available here.

( This is a link to an older technology based blog entry I wrote. )

Simple introductory tutorial for Mapstraction

It was time to start moving my old Google Maps pages over to version 2 of the API, and I thought I'd consider using another mapping solution (maybe Yahoo Maps or Microsoft). But then fate intervened and I happened to listen to a podcast from the Where 2.0 conference by Steve Coast. He talked about Open Street Map and more importantly to me, Mapstraction.

( This is a link to an older technology based blog entry I wrote. )

From their homepage

    Mapstraction is a library which provides a common API for Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft's javascript mapping APIs to enable switching from one to another as smoothly as possible.

This was just what I was looking for, so I thought I'd give it a try and detail the steps I took to get a simple map up and running.

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