In a fit of madness, having been pointed at the data set by Ben, I added megaliths to iamnear.net. Because you never know when you’re going to need to find your nearest ancient stone circle to perform a pagan ritual and the like.
The data set is comes from The Modern Antiquarian, taking an export of its KML file and parsing it into the database. Hpricot seems to splutter on KML, so I had to use REXML.
I also stuck a Google Map link in for each location, so for those of you lucky enough to own an iPhone it will take you straight through to the Google Map application. For the rest of us, it’s probably only useful on a desktop machine.
And I had my first report of usage in the wild! Tim worked his way to the Blue Posts the other night thanks pubs.iamnear.net.
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