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I got rid of i am near’s dependency on Fire Eagle, so now anyone can use it. Hopefully this satisfies two concerns. 1) I don’t have a Fire Eagle account. 2) I want to search for stuff near where I’m going, not where I am.
You’ll notice the interface has got a touch busier, with the [...]

I’ve added Post Offices to I Am Near. Umm… that’s about it. You can find it at postoffices.iamnear.net.
Still waiting to hear back from Royal Mail about every post box.

I just launched ATMs I Am Near, which does exactly what it says on the tin. I know ATMs is American English, but cashmachines is longer to type on a mobile.

The data is pulled out of the LINK ATM Locator, which is one of those javascript powered bit of web weirdness that can only come [...]

Today I filed a Freedom Of Information request from the Royal Mail Group, for the location of every post box in the UK, with a grid reference. I’m told there are 114,000 of them. Why? I want to build postboxes.iamnear.net.

I suspect that iamnear.net works best with the things that are common, often required when out [...]

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 [...]

I finally got around to writing and launching ‘i am near‘, a very simple application to show you ’stuff’ that you are near, in a format designed for mobile users. At the moment it’s only got pubs and megaliths in it.
Inspired by Simon Willison’s wikinear, it uses Fire Eagle to grab your location, storing your [...]