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wikinear.com, OAuth and Fire Eagle

I’m pleased to announce wikinear.com. It’s a simple site that does just one thing: show you a list of the five Wikipedia pages that are geographically closest to your current location. It’s designed (or not-designed) to be used mainly from mobile phones. [... 1147 words]

GeoNames: missing countries. United Arab Emirates and a few other countries are missing from the GeoNames XML set I used to seed Django People. I’ve added UAE by hand; I’ll add the others as soon as I have time. 0 23rd January 2008, 10:45 am

Geonames machine tags, Triplr.org and JSON, oh my! Dan Catt plays with Geonames and Triplr. 0 30th March 2007, 3:34 pm

A django site