Geovelo. JetLovers - Your Flight Club. OpenStreetMap. Jauntful. Foursquare. A Comparison of Places APIs. Location Based Services are all the rage these days. The space is still being defined and the players are trying to differentiate their service offerings in order to attract the critical mass of developers. In this post I’ll draw a side-by-side comparison of the main features provided by the major Places API providers today. While I have no hard numbers to back-up the “major provider” claim, I’ll simply go for the web companies I would look for when building an application around Location services. Here are my candidates ordered by their first API release date: The features of all these APIs are designed primarily to support (and promote) the business use cases of each respective competitor. I won’t try to identify any “best” API in the end. Since there can be only one true collection of physical places (we’re not dealing with quantum realities fortunately) and lacking a common industry effort towards harmonization, the default behavior is to compete to win or dominate the space.
Globe+ | a Chrome experiment project based on WebGL Globe and Google APIs. Coordonnées GPS google et Altitude, latitude et longitude. Petewarden/iPhoneTracker @ GitHub. This open-source application maps the information that your iPhone is recording about your movements. It doesn't record anything itself, it only displays files that are already hidden on your computer. Download the application Read the FAQ Authors Alasdair Allan (alasdair@babilim.co.uk) @aallan on Twitter Pete Warden (pete@petewarden.com) @petewarden on Twitter This application relies on map tiles from the volunteer-run OpenStreetMap project, so please consider supporting their great work.
Download Source You can download this project in either zip or tar formats. You can also clone the project with Git by running: $ git clone Is there a Windows version? Is there a Windows version? The file exists on PCs too, but we haven't written a version of the application that runs on Windows ourselves. How does the application work? How can I examine the data without running the application? ~/Downloads/iphonels.py | grep "consolidated" No. It’s unclear.