OpenID4 items tagged “geo”
OS OpenSpace from Ordnance Survey (via) Ordinance Survey now provide a free JavaScript mapping API for “non-commercial purposes” by “private individuals”. The maps look incredibly detailed, although I can’t find any live API demos on the site (the documentation is illustrated with screenshots). 
9th June 2008, 8:30 am
The overdue Places post II—Prototyping Iconicness. How Flickr Places works. 
25th January 2008, 4 pm
flickr.places.findByLatLon. New API method for Flickr Places. If only Flickr could return a bounding box for each place... 24th January 2008, 1:05 pm
Flickr Place IDs. flickr.places.find, flickr.places.resolvePlaceURL and flickr.places.resolvePlaceID combine to provide a really useful, lightweight not-quite-a-geocoder API. It’s a shame you can’t search for places by providing a latitude/longitude point yet. 
19th January 2008, 7:34 am
