Simon Willison’s Weblog

Fire Eagle has launched! No need for an invite any more, hooray!

# 12th August 2008, 9:33 pm / fireeagle, location, yahoo

Yahoo! Internet Location Platform. As an ex-Yahoo! this is really exciting—WhereOnEarth (a London company acquired by Yahoo! in 2005) provide the incredibly detailed geographical data used by Flickr, Upcoming and FireEagle—and now it’s available as an external API.

# 12th May 2008, 9:02 pm / apis, fireeagle, flickr, geocoding, location, upcoming, whereonearth, yahoo

Welcome to Fire Eagle! It’s launched! A service and accompanying API for saving your physical location and selectively sharing it with applications that you trust.

# 5th March 2008, 7:05 pm / api, fireeagle, location, yahoo

The Zonetag API Goes Public. Awesome new API from YRB—given a cell tower ID can provide both a location and a list of suggested tags, based on data collected by ZoneTag.

# 2nd June 2007, 12:53 am / api, cellid, location, tags, yahoo, ydn, yrb, zonetag