[Geowanking] TypePad with location?

[tpryor at media.mit.edu]

Isn't SixApart now doing some LJ programming?

Tony

Quoting "B.K. DeLong" <bkdelong at pobox.com>:

> At 04:09 PM 10/27/2005, Gregor J. Rothfuss wrote:
>> i'm thinking livejournal would be more interesting at this time. 
>> it's user base seems more inclined to (over)share such information, 
>> and then there is their relatively rich foaf data:
>>
>> http://www.livejournal.com/users/lydian/data/foaf
>
> True - but the best way to get this functionality added is to first
> program it yourself with LJ's nice, open API and then talk to Brad
> Fitz about getting it pushed through ASAP.
>
> It would be great to get a Geoloc field in both the user profile and
> in the fields for each LJ post. And for gosh sakes - include Altitude ;)
>
> The User Profile feature would be the standard "Blog location" the
> user wants. I think it would be great to have a means of identifying
> the location as fictional or false just so people don't assume that's
> where people really are if they arent.
>
> The LJ Post fields would allow for a Long/Lat/Alt for each post and
> offer to save a loc as a "common posting location" and have a
> pulldown to show all these common locations.  I'd love to be as
> "fine" tuned as to which floor someone is posting from via alt. Why not? ;)
>
> Better yet, why not have LJ auto-generate a KMZ file containing all
> the locations of all the geocoded LJ posts, and allowig people to do
> a "fly-to" tour of them? Insert the geocoded info into the RSS and
> Atom feeds etc.
>
> Has TypePad added a service to "crossport" to an LJ account yet?
>
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> PGP Fingerprint:
> 38D4 D4D4 5819 8667 DFD5  A62D AF61 15FF 297D 67FE
>
> FOAF:
> http://foaf.brain-stream.org
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