Yahoo! Maps Geocoding API

Hooray for easy geocoding. Still can’t believe Google requires lat/long for their maps api.

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Mobile Voter - SFVote drive

“This campaign aims to register voters in San Francisco using Mobile Voter’s text messaging service. By texting keyword “vote” to 80837, participants will receive registration forms and instructions about how to register to vote.”

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Mobile Landscape - Graz in real time

MIT Media Lab project creating a city wide map in real time by visualizing anonymous mobile phone data.

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Neighbornode: the extensible neighborhood network

Wireless hotspot as community resource and interaction point (bulletin board etc). I do have the requisite Linksys WRT54G!

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Corner Shots - architectural photography.

Self titled “architecture portraitist”, photographs buildings in New York, frequently from corners, frequently at night. Interestingly, he records the location of all the photos he takes, with relevant links to yahoo maps.

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GM862 Cellular Module by Telit

Physical computing project. Communicate serially with this module, which can handle tri band cell events. Complicated to use, and not cheap, but allows net connectivity anywhere there’s cell service.

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“Digital Ground” by Malcolm McCullough

“Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and Environmental Knowing” Read this.

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Jeff Howard, CMU Interaction Design graduate student

Nice looking site and blog. He’s reading Dourish’s “Embodied Interaction” too! He’s working on wayfinding and collaborative mapping.

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Excellent combination of google maps and craigslist housing listings

Now if only we could wrangle an arbitrary block view image from amazon’s A9 yellowpages we could apartment hunt from home…

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Interactive City Festival

“Global festival of art on the edge” located in San Jose, CA. Happening in August 2006.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online

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Live streams of ITP thesis presentations

Was active May 3rd through May 7th. With the interactive chat, it was kinda like being there.

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MapQuest defines what a geocode is, and the pitfalls in creating them

(/features/ seems to be an internal branch.)

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A free geocode generating service with a RESTful API

Apparently pretty strict on translating addresses. Yahoo’s api may be more forgiving.

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Mapping hacks, from O’Reilly

Might be fun to pick up

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