GeoMaker – easily turning web content into copy and paste maps and Geo microformats
In preparation for my upcoming tech talk about Yahoo Placemaker I thought I have a bit more fun playing with the API. The main thing I wanted to create is a tool that makes it easy to either get geo content from some text as microformats or as a map to copy and paste without having to read lots of documentation.
Enter GeoMaker. In just three steps you can either get from URL to map or from text to map. If you add the site address to analyze as a URL parameter it even goes down to two steps :)
I’d love to get feedback and see how we can improve this. I’ll release the code on GitHub in case you want to host this yourself once I got some more iterations done on it.
July 2nd, 2009 at 1:05 am
Cool stuff! Supporting RDF output would be uber-cool :) e.g., Using WGS84 Geo Positioning vocabulary: http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos
July 3rd, 2009 at 5:14 pm
One thing I’d love to see here is having the placemarks link to the actual content. This is very cool and I’d love to see where it goes.
July 3rd, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Attempting to parse content from websites that include addresses does not generate location flags associated with that address. The only location that gets flagged is the city and that is all.
The content that I was using to test the service was from nextstop.com.
Loving the concept, though. I also agree with David that having the placemarks link to content would be an amazing idea.