Mashup of the Day: GeoCode
November 21st, 2008
A simple geocode tool that I wrote 3 years back just won the “Mashup of the Day Award” by the site mashupawards.com!
The tool is very basic – it allows you to look up the latitude and longitude of any address (well, any address that is supported by the Yahoo Geocode API). It came in handy when I needed to find some lat/lng pairs for another app I was building…and so I put it the tool out there for people to use. This was back in the day when Google had just released their mapping API, but didn’t have a public geocode API. Ahh…the good ole days.
I’m not sure how/why it won the award, but the good folks at outside.in just linked to it from their new API page…so I’m guessing that’s where the interest came from. I had forgotten about it!
November 21st, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Congrats! Your lookup tool may be simple, but it’s so, so useful. Thanks for putting it out there.
March 2nd, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Could you provide the source for geo_lookup.php? I’d love to use this since google limits the number of requests/second to their API, while yahoo only limits total hits per day. I already have my own API key for yahoo.
Thanks either way!
March 2nd, 2009 at 9:57 pm
Hahah nevermind, found it on the original post. I failed to notice the space between
March 11th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
congrats