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YQL Geo Library - get all your geo needs in JavaScript - geolocation, reverse geocoding, content analysis

By iCan via isithackday.com
Submitted On March 12, 2010

As an aid for the Georgia Tech Hack 2010 and as a follow-up to my talk about geolocation here is a simple JavaScript library that answers most of your geo questions. It wraps the following services in a simple interface:

Yahoo Placemaker, Yahoo GeoPlanet, jsonip.appspot.com, IP location tools,W3C Geo location and Flickr.places.findByLatLon

  0 Comments   Tags: Web Services,  AJAX,  Javascript

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