Michael Young [81nassau]

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!

I added a few more news categories to the AP News mashup. It now plots the following AP feeds on the Google map:

• National News
• Sports
• Business
• Technology
• Strange

You can also toggle the news categories on the map so that you can show/hide the various pins. Hopefully it’s a little more useful now…

The AP News Mashup I put together last weekend was mentioned in the Where in the World… Wall Street Journal article (sub. required) yesterday.

81Nassau.com/apnews
This map plots the locations of recent U.S. news stories from the Associated Press. Users can click on each location to view the first few sentences of the story or link to the full article.

Thanks to the author Jessica Vascellaro for the mention!