GeoURL + Other Mapping Stuff

If you are a location scout and you dont know nuthin’ ’bout maps, well then, you aint… well let’s just say you should!

It hardly seems accidental or coincidental that most location scouts and location managers (as well as many directors, photographers, dp’s, producers and pa’s) seem to have at least just a little bit of that “techy gene” that gravitates them towards stuff like maps, organized data, gadgets, electronics, etc, etc… in any case, maps is useful stuff!

I mean, isn’t it pretty much assumed that you are real good at finding stuff? Aren’t you the “go-to” person to get your crew to and from a location as expeditiously and safely as possibly?

You might be a location scout if… ;-)

  • Do you own a GPS? (I do)
  • …how’bout a really good compass? (that too)
  • Do you spend an inordinate amount of time on Google Maps?
  • ...ponder ways to geotag your location scouting photos? …gotta luv FlickrMaphere’s mine
  • …I rest my case…

    …but I digress…

  • Title: The GeoURL ICBM Address Server
  • Webspace: GeoUrl
  • Description: “GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory. This will allow you to find URLs by their proximity to a given location. Find your neighbor’s blog, perhaps, or the web page of the restaurants near you. GeoURL is listing 2,159,636 sites.”
  • Add your site (also see below)
  • Location Resources (pretty good list of online mapping links)
  • GeoURL (yummy GeoURL chicklet for this website)
  • GeoUrl Page for this website
  • I was very surprised to find there was not a Wikipedia page for GeoURL. Short of writing it myself, in the meantime, I have created a request for a GeoURL page to be added to Wikipedia

    Basically, what happens is (using a very useful helper if you need it) you add the supplied metatags to the head (truncated for illustration) section of your homepage*

    *this is admittedly somewhat “techy” stuff here… if you don’t already know, then it is up to you to be motivated enough to read and learn for yourself – read: don’t even think about writing me asking for “internet lessons”

    If you view the source of my home page you will see the following metatags:

    meta name=”ICBM” content=”40.86335, -74.16205″ / (truncated for illustration) (hint: see anything looks just an itty bitty teeny weeny bit like latitude and longitude?)
    meta name=”DC.title” content=”nyc.locationscout.us” / (truncated for illustration) DC.title

    Voila! – that is how GeoURL indexes your website :-)

    If you look on the results page for a GeoURL lookup of this website, you will see quite a bit of useful info:

    “last updated 2008-03-21T11:34:54, created 2006-08-29T00:06:04.
    atom | rss | Google Maps | MultiMap | Mapquest

    …and you will see all the other indexed websites geographically near this website as well. Neat, huh?

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  • One of my other sites, rrhobbs.info, uses a tool called Wikimap that uses GeoURL as well…
  • geotagging content on nyc.locationscout.us (related)
  • Geo (Microformat) (Wikipedia, related)
  • hmm, GeoTwitterous looks interesting (…via Mashable (thx)…
  • I cloned the GeoTwitter Pipe

  • nyc.locationscout.us Mapufacture Map

    Map Room Blog

    “A blog about maps by Jonathan Crowe, The Map Room covers everything from map collecting to the latest in geospatial technology.”

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  • Maproom Feed
  • Maproom Directory Feed
  • The map below uses GeoPress, which has been mentioned elsewhere on this site.

  • Geourl Feed
  • RH | GeoURL | NAC | Plazes | Dipity | outside.in | Mapufacture | Post Map

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    R. Richard Hobbs :: Location Scout, Location Manager, Location Library and Production Services
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