[Geowanking] getting reversed geocoded location in mobile browsers

[Aaron Straup Cope]

For some measure of good this is what we (Flickr) use:

http://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.places.findByLatLon.html

Cheers,

William J. Spat wrote:
> I stand corrected.  Thanks Shoaib.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shoaib Burq [mailto:saburq at gmail.com] 
> Sent: 22-Jul-09 15:12
> To: wspat at ioto.ca
> Cc: Tom Longson (nym); Barry Hunter; geowanking at geowanking.org
> Subject: Re: [Geowanking] getting device location in mobile browsers
> 
> Rwverse geocoders
> On Thursday, July 23, 2009, William J. Spat <wspat at ioto.ca> wrote:
>> Now a further challenge: Converting the raw fix to an address.
>>
>> Any cheap and tidy geocoders come to mind?
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: William J. Spat [mailto:wspat at ioto.ca]
>> Sent: 22-Jul-09 11:45
>> To: 'Tom Longson (nym)'; 'Barry Hunter'
>> Cc: 'geowanking at geowanking.org'
>> Subject: RE: [Geowanking] getting device location in mobile browsers
>>
>> Thanks guys!
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tom Longson (nym) [mailto:tomlong at gmail.com]
>> Sent: 22-Jul-09 10:11
>> To: Barry Hunter
>> Cc: wspat at ioto.ca; geowanking at geowanking.org
>> Subject: Re: [Geowanking] getting device location in mobile browsers
>>
>> Very cool.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Tom Longson (nym)
>> ------------------------------
>> http://tomlongson.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Barry Hunter<barry at barryhunter.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>>> Code here:
>>> http://code.google.com/p/geo-location-javascript/
>>> that reportedly hooks into the location api on the blackberry.
>>>
>>> On 22/07/2009, William J. Spat <wspat at ioto.ca> wrote:
>>>> Having recently noticed that Google has brought to the mobile web on the
>>>>  iPhone:
>>>>
>>>>
>  http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/15/google-brings-location-to-the-mobile-w
>> e
>>>>  b-on-the-iphone/
>>>>
>>>>  I was set to wondering if anyone has seen other interesting 'wanking
>> where
>>>>  location is taken from the device and put in a browser?
>>>>
>>>>  I was thinking particularly what might be possible on a BlackBerry?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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