Simon Willison’s Weblog

Owls, Otters, Monkeys and Lions Near You.com. It’s not just Owls—we also registered ottersnearyou.com, monkeysnearyou.com and lionsnearyou.com. We’ll probably stop there though, or this could turn in to a very expensive marketing gimmick.

# 19th January 2010, 2:54 pm / lions, monkeys, otters, owls, projects, wildlife, wildlifenearyou

owlsnearyou.com. Nat and I built this over the weekend. It asks for your location, then tells you where your nearest Owl is (using sightings data people have entered on WildlifeNearYou.com). If you’re using Firefox 3.6 or an iPhone it grabs your location using the W3C geolocation API so you don’t have to type anything at all.

# 19th January 2010, 2:45 pm / geolocation, iphone, owls, owlsnearyou, projects, wildlife, wildlifenearyou