Simon Willison’s Weblog

The Zonetag API Goes Public. Awesome new API from YRB—given a cell tower ID can provide both a location and a list of suggested tags, based on data collected by ZoneTag.

# 2nd June 2007, 12:53 am / zonetag, api, yrb, location, cellid, tags, ydn, yahoo

TagMaps. The toolkit behind the new YRB World Explorer, available to developers as a reusable Flash component.

# 19th January 2007, 10:01 am / tagmaps, worldexplorer, yrb, flash

Introducing: World Explorer and TagMaps. “Can we automatically extract information from Flickr geotagged images to create a rich visualization of the world we live in? The answer is: you bet.”

# 19th January 2007, 9:55 am / yrb, tagging, flickr, maps