The blog of a code monkey: May 2006

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Monday, May 29, 2006

Sunday, May 28, 2006

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Monday, May 22, 2006

Sunday, May 21, 2006

Saturday, May 20, 2006

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Friday, May 19, 2006

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Saturday, May 13, 2006

Friday, May 12, 2006

Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Monday, May 08, 2006

Sunday, May 07, 2006

Today I played a bit with geotagging blog posts. This basically means indicating where the post was made, using longitude and latitude. The result of this can be seen on the blog in the form of links to Google Maps below the blog posts that I've tagged.

The more technically inclined may be interested in how this is done. I took a very simple approach, since Blogger doesn't support tagging. To tag a post with a geo location I include the string "lat:latitude,lon:longitude" somewhere in the body. When viewing the blog, these strings are replaced with links to Google Maps using Javascript. When fetching the Atom feed, the string is however included. This allowed me to create a Geoblog, which instead of showing the posts in a list, one after another, shows the posts on a map. The geoblog just grabs the feed, parses the posts to see which have been geotagged, and puts these on a map. Simple, but pretty cool stuff...