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State of the Map 2010
This past weekend saw the annual OpenStreetMap “State of the Map” conference arrive in Girona, Spain. I attended for the fourth year running and was glad to be given the opportunity to talk about mapme.at, what it is and how … Continue reading
Posted in Events, General
Tagged foursquare, location tracking, openstreetmap, osm, sotm, sotm10
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Foursquare Support Now Available
We’re happy to announce that we now have support for linking your account to Foursquare. If you haven’t tried it yet, Foursquare offers points, badges and more when you “check in” to locations. We’ve still got some things to finish … Continue reading
Place based locating
You may have noticed that we recently launched some new functionality on the site. In the past when you wanted to map yourself you had, essentially, two options for describing that place. If you had some way of finding out … Continue reading
Interesting Location/Clock Mashup
Update 16/12/2011: You can now buy one of these, go here for more information about WhereDial! John McKerrell has blogged about a hardware hacking project he recently created mashing his location up with an old fashioned clock using an Arduino … Continue reading
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Tagged api, clock, harry potter, location, location tracking, mashup, weasley
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Google Latitude now supported
Google Latitude is one of the increasing number of “location based social networks”. Google’s service is currently very simple, you can update your location via a mobile or on the web, you can then share your location with specific friends … Continue reading
Show your location on your blog or other websites
So we’ve been working on the history page to try to make it a good way to see where you’ve been and to share your location history with friends. There’s more improvements to come but you might be thinking “yes, … Continue reading
Add a user profile to put life into your history page
We’re glad to announce that we’ve just released a code change which allows you to enter a user profile onto mapme.at. Go to the Account page and you can add a short description of yourself, a link to your website … Continue reading
The Future of Online Location Tracking?
You’ve probably noticed by now that mapme.at has had a bit of a makeover recently. This was all done as part of a changeover to using mapping services from CloudMade, a London and San Francisco based company aiming to bring … Continue reading
Tracking “The Box” around the world
If you’re a regular reader of the BBC News site you may have seen their recent stories about “The Box” – an experiment that the BBC are running to track the locations visited by a single shipping container over the … Continue reading
Welcome to the mapme.at blog
Welcome everyone to the first post on the MapMe.at blog. I’m in Liverpool, GB as I write this, sat on the sofa at home in fact. Why would you want to know this? Well, perhaps you would like to meet … Continue reading