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I think I forgot to write this up. Oops. A few weeks ago I made a tool for making geo microformats. You plonk in a location, some text, drag the pin around and it generates you the appropriate HTML. That’s it really. It’s called the Magical Microformat Maker, and you might like it if you [...]

ATMs are now back up and running in iamnear using the Multimap API. It’s not quite as comprehensive as the LINK Locator, but it’s better than nothing.

You may have noticed that ATMs and Post Offices no longer work in iamnear. The LINK Locator somehow managed to jumble up its AJAX hell even more - making the loophole I outlined previously impossible.
However, they shall return! ATMs coming from Multimap’s new API, and Post Offices from a FOI request (I hope). Until then, [...]

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 got a new toy recently - a NaviGPS device. It’s a GPS logger with Bluetooth and a bike mount. Partly for messing with, partly for navigation and partly for contribute to OpenStreetMap.
Of course, the device needs programming with waypoints before you set off, but allows for manual input of longitude and latitudes. It’s fine [...]

I’ve been saving this post for a couple of days, until the bug fixes to the LocalSearchMaps geocoder that I’d submitted had made it into the latest release. 0.2.4 is now ready to download.
Graticule is a Ruby (and Rails) based geocoding API for looking up address coordinates and performing distance calculations. It supports a number [...]