Projects

Here are a few things that I’ve built that are fun, useful, both or neither.

iamnear.net

A very simple web application designed to show you ‘things’ you are near. It can use your location from Fire Eagle, and returns the results in a manner suitable for mobile browsers. It contains pubs, post offices, ATMs and megaliths. If you’ve got an idea for another data set to include, please let me know.

Magical Microformat Maker

A tool for quick and easy generation of geo microformats. Find a place, move the marker, type some text and voila!

low flying rocks

An experiment in astronomical discovery, and a reminder of the celestial activity we never see. Scrapes the NASA Near Earth Object database, and twitters when an object passes within 0.2 AU of the earth. Seems to happen a few times a week.