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12th May 2008 - Link Blog

Yahoo! Internet Location Platform. As an ex-Yahoo! this is really exciting—WhereOnEarth (a London company acquired by Yahoo! in 2005) provide the incredibly detailed geographical data used by Flickr, Upcoming and FireEagle—and now it’s available as an external API.

Posted 12th May 2008 at 9:02 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 12th May 2008.

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