Monthly Archive for December, 2006

We All Win Time Magazines Person of the Year

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on December 31, 2006
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Via JM3:

Time Magazine has announced its Person of the Year and it is YOU!

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Final Days

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on December 23, 2006
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“A Last Look Inside the Revere Sugar Refinery” …in Red Hook, Brooklyn, that is.

via Gothamist and BlueJake:

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Google Maps Geocoder

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on December 22, 2006
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Google Maps Geocoder via Aemkei at Sumaato Blog:

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Flickr Map

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on December 21, 2006
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This post would probably be more appropriately titled “How NOT to embed a Flickr Map”; it has been done quick-n-dirty using the url link to my Flickr Map inside an iframe and it looks it.

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New York City Movie Mapper

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on December 20, 2006
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Metaphilm Movie Mapper via Deisel Powered Nuns:

Movie Mapper is an online database of film locations in New York City (Part of the Metaphilm website)

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BananAlbum!

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on December 18, 2006
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Actually, this is Bananr running locally and embedded using an iframe.

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An Embedded Flickr Slideshow

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on December 18, 2006
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Via Paul Stamatiou HOW TO Quickie: Embedded Flickr Slideshows

Yet another web trick the aspiring location scout might want for presenting locations.

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Mapsack Widget

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on December 18, 2006
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Here is a way to imbed your Flickr photos on your website using the Mapsack Flickr Widget, which could be useful for a location scout wishing to present locations to a client at the same time illustrating said locations’ geographic postion(s).

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Wikimapia

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R. Richard Hobbs
on December 12, 2006
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More of me playing around with online maps and geotagging, from the Wikimapia FAQ:

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Irish Castles

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R. Richard Hobbs
on December 11, 2006
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via The Times Online - Irish Castles

In defence of Irish castles - Where can I get to quickly?

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Mapkit

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R. Richard Hobbs
on December 6, 2006
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Update 2/5/2008 Mapkit has addded advertising on its maps since I last checked. Its looks pretty evil, but I suppose Mapkit needs sponsors to stay in business. At least the text ads appear to be travel related… RH

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Frappr

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on December 5, 2006
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I am currently exploring a number of interactive maps mashups that can be used by location scouts.

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