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Just launched geo.gy - a location shortener
- bostonvaulter2 15y agoThis looks cool and could be handy. I wonder how many phones could easily use this link for navigation though. Currently I use glympse if I want to tell people where I am so they can meet up with me or pick me up.
- krisrak 15y agotry http://shaloc.com http://shaloc.com, iphone app
- ypodim 15y agoThanks for the heads-up. Being based on HTML5, geo.gy is platform-independent
- juanre 15y agoIf you want to do something similar with an iPhone, you should check Milestones, http://alandair.com/milestones http://alandair.com/milestones. Keep and share geolocated notes, possibly with photo, via Twitter/Twitpic and email (KMZ for Google Earth). Backup as a Google Fusion Table, with photos sent to Picasaweb. (Disclaimer: Milestones is my fault. Working now on recovering from the Fusion Table backup, and adding social awareness.)
- doetoe 15y agoWow, milestones looks as if it is just the application I have been looking for for some time! If only I had an iPhone...
- korbinus 15y agoIt simple and clean, the name is good, I like it.
- JeremyBanks 15y agoDoes it work on smart phones?
- nl 15y agoYou could/should make the URL be a GeoHash [1] GeoHash's have the extremely attractive property that shorter versions of the same URL correspond to larger areas around the same point - ie, you can trade precision for size. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash#Example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash#Example
- dave1010uk 15y agoGeohash also doesn't require a database to lookup hashes - all you need is the formula. The only disadvantage seems to be the slightly longer URLs.
- juanre 15y agoVery nice. We did something very similar some years ago, http://notamap.com http://notamap.com, with the idea of making it very easy to save maps with notes and embed them on your web. No sign-up, no database storing your data: everything is encoded in the URL you keep. A pity we never really polished it, nor tried to promote it. It has a small but faithful user base.
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- riffmaster 15y agopretty good!
- CHsurfer 15y agoThe google map was kind of buggy for me with Firefox 3.6.2
- Concours 15y ago"Sorry to see you go" Alert everytime I refresh the site or open it in a new tab, it's actually more or less like a welcome message, so you might want to check it
- shellehs 15y agoI am in Beijing of China, and ... looks can't retrieve my location after I allowed the perdition of accessing my geo-location within my web browser.
- lostbit 15y agoI didn't think it would be able to "find me" accurately, but it did. Now I'm kind of worried :) I thought Google Location Service would not have this precision.
- phpnode 15y agothis is nice, how about letting the user drag the pin around in case the result isn't quite accurate enough (in my case it got my city, but what if i wanted to link to my house?)
- ypodim 15y agoIndeed, that's on my todo list.
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- kiplinger 15y agoI like it. (my unsolicited advice) depending on how you are storing the data, you should let the user pass a query string or something to the url that returns the raw lat long in json format as opposed to the actual map, that way you have this mini api for more advanced users.
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