This might be the greatest DVD cover of all time.
(Breaking Bad, season 2)
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This might be the greatest DVD cover of all time.
(Breaking Bad, season 2)
Using data from the Audioscrobbler API and Amazon, tuneglue can visualize webs of relationships around any artist in Last.fm’s data catalog.
GeoPlanet Explorer, a tool for browsing the Yahoo! geolocation hierarchical database, GeoPlanet.
The tool queries Yahoo’s GeoPlanet API for a WOEID of a “place,” which is Yahoo’s clever method of uniquely identifying any “location of interest” in the world, with something more loose yet more descriptive than just a lat/long. Passing a WOEID to the API returns lists of locations spatially-related to your search, like parent/child/sibling places and historical “ancestor” records.
The developer used YQL, YUI, and Yahoo Maps to put it all together. Check out the source code on Github for the full experience.
After a couple of map related posts, I found this video of the new stuff Microsoft’s doing with Bing Maps. It looks like the Live Labs guys have even integrated Photosynth photos into the Streetside interface. really dig the seamless display of constellations when you pan up to the sky.
The Maps team is on a roll lately. They just opened up Google Maps Labs today, unlocking new features I’ve been wondering about for a long time (drag ‘n zoom!).
There are a couple new “power user” features that’ll be useful to me, like the lat/long display tooltip, aerial oblique imagery, and the lat/long marker drop feature.
The StreetView team goes to Whister!
For the Vancouver Olympics, the StreetView guys have been hittin’ the slopes to get imagery from snowmobiles. The little StreetView guy is even a skier!
Last Exit does iPhone wallpapers of all your favorite FutureCorps scattered throughout their TwitPic.
