Polytechnic » geocode http://polytechnic.co.uk The personal brain dump of Garrett Coakley Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:48:10 +0000 en hourly 1 Flickr and neighbourhood http://polytechnic.co.uk/blog/2008/11/flickr-and-neighbourhood http://polytechnic.co.uk/blog/2008/11/flickr-and-neighbourhood#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 garrettc Flickr does with all that geolocation data it gathers from our pictures (apart from pinning them to a map and working out the ratio of kittens to sunsets in a given area)? Well one of the things it does is is generate shapefiles of regional neighbourhoods to better work out where your picture was taken. Now Tom Taylor has built a tool which allows you to visualise the boundaries of these neighbourhoods and see how Flickr views your part of the world. Cool stuff.]]> Have you ever wondered what Flickr does with all that geolocation data it gathers from our pictures (apart from pinning them to a map and working out the ratio of kittens to sunsets in a given area)? Well one of the things it does is is generate shapefiles of regional neighbourhoods to better work out where your picture was taken.

Now Tom Taylor has built a tool which allows you to visualise the boundaries of these neighbourhoods and see how Flickr views your part of the world.

Cool stuff.

]]> http://polytechnic.co.uk/blog/2008/11/flickr-and-neighbourhood/feed 0 Geocoding Irish Addresses http://polytechnic.co.uk/blog/2006/01/geocoding-irish-addresses http://polytechnic.co.uk/blog/2006/01/geocoding-irish-addresses#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 garrettc geocode Irish addresses. Holy grail indeed, nice going Mr H. ]]> John beats Lycos and Google into submission with cURL (and tea no doubt), resulting in a working method to geocode Irish addresses.

Holy grail indeed, nice going Mr H.

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