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Local Live Map Thingy

Thursday, January 4, 2007

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So i had several people having trouble using the Local Live API or sharing their Maps. Therefor I decided to build this little thingy - Share-A-Map- to help them out. Basically its data parser, so you just have to browse through the map, click on your point and fetch the information. It provides Url to Map: you get a direct link to the map so you can share it easily and effortless. Lat: Latitude of your current Point in the center of the map. Lon: Longitude of your current point in the map (these two are for guys who just want to get the coordinates of a point and save them to DB). Zoom: Quite useless but i already had it for the map sharing variables. The usage is very simple. a) browse to your desired place on the map. b) click to select your point in the map (it will automatically zoom and center). c) click the "Get info button" to load info. d) copy the url so you call your stripped map from any where in your sites. e) optionally you can copy the latitude and longitude info. I now its simple, and i don't intend to replace the features, its just a pretty fast hackie for sharing maps and getting coordinates for the rest of the non geeky guys out there. If you have any suggestions please leave a comment

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MapHack

Saturday, December 30, 2006

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Stay tuned for more info in our map hackies. For now check out: 1. Monterrey’s Google Earth Community: Google Earth has mostly no support for maps and venues. We intend to overlay local live maps and share our points of interest. Join us here 2. Map Posts My current notes on maps & hacks category. 3. Share A Map A [...]

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Orb - Republished

Thursday, November 16, 2006

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Passive Stumbling and Information Awareness (Or love story of stumbling and knowledge economy) NOTE: this was first published in the restatemedia.net blog, but since this is my personal notebook i place a copy here as well warning: under conceptualization Ok so here's a second try. The Orb is a wireless network stumbling platform, there i said it. Now why on earth should we need a stumbling platform, don't we have already those bunch of kids trying to crack our wifi networks ? Why give them more toys ? Well in first place, let me clarify that this is a Stumbling platform not a wardriving tool, nor a network cracker / sniffer, so let us see a little bit more of the difference between these two.

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