mapping SRC Open Sources their Geocoder April 25, 2006 by admin | Leave a Comment Read over at DirectionsMag that SRC has chosen to open source their Explorer geocoding product. I love the idea of putting more tools out their in the open source arena, especially in the area of geocoding. But remember its all about that data, and these days its seems like getting data coverage is the hardest […] Read more »
mapping Geocode right from Excel April 19, 2006 by admin | Leave a Comment Esin S sends along this clever script that uses Yahoo’s REST geocoding service to geocode right in Excel (replace appid=XXXX with your own appID): Function gCode(Street As String, city As String, state As String, zip As String) As String Dim XMLDOC As MSXML2.DOMDocument Dim xm, xm2 As IXMLDOMNodeList Dim init, ConnectURL As String Dim temp […] Read more »
mapping Now with Worldwide Satellite Imagery April 15, 2006 by admin | 2 Comments on Now with Worldwide Satellite Imagery I had some time to incorporate the latest features from Yahoo’s version 3 of their AJAX API. The main feature is international satellite imagery, this can be enabled by selecting “SAT” from the menu on the left. There is also an option on the batch geocoder for defaulting the view to either Street, Satellite, or […] Read more »