GeoShapes

The latest flickr / googlemaps / yahoomaps geomap geotag mapping craze seems to be GeoShapes and GeoShaping. Which is basically giving a shape to a locality !

See Flickr

• http://where-what-when.husk.org/ powered by http://appjet.com/
• http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/10/30/the-shape-of-alpha/
• http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/01/12/living-in-the-donut-hole/
• http://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.places.findByLatLon.htm
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/mbiddulph/3034389047/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/scraplab/3035624594/

See Google

• http://www.hackdiary.com/2008/11/16/google-map-of-london-with-flickr-shape-data-overlaid/
• http://gist.github.com/25502

SeeYahoo

• http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/
• http://www.ygeoblog.com/blog/2008/11/21/yahoo-geoplanet-and-yql/
• http://upcoming.yahoo.com/services/api/metro.getForLatLon.php

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