“We also added transit and walking directions to Google Maps for Android. You can now get directions using public transportation in over 250 cities, including New York City and San Francisco. If you’re looking for the best route on foot, use walking directions to take advantage of pedestrian-only pathways and to avoid one-way restrictions – [...]
This week I kicked off my latest Adaptive Path project. The team is designing and developing an iPhone app as an extension of the smart.fm web site. You can read all about our first week on the project over on the AP blog.
I am really excited about this particular project and unlike many where the [...]
Last week, Yahoo! released a new service called Placemaker. Developers can use this to identify location information within unstructured content. Send Placemaker a bunch of text or a URL to a web page and it will return back a list of places referenced in that text or document.
“Placemaker is not a geocoder and does not [...]
The Tour Tracker that was was used for US pro cycling races Tour of California and Tour of Missouri is taking on the world. The 2009 Giro d’Italia is being broadcast live online via the same Adobe Flex app. Allan Padgett was once again involved in launching this app. This time it’s called the “Race [...]
A couple of former Adaptive Pathers are building a new company, Small Batch. Their first experiment is a site called Wikirank.
“Wikirank shows you what people are reading on Wikipedia. It’s based on the actual usage data from the Wikipedia servers, which the Wikimedia foundation makes available as a public service. We take that data, process [...]
Recent Comments