Mapping Hacks

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Vertex: where taxation meets innovation and dies in shock

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

I received an email me asking if there was a way to get a latitude and longitude from a number which his ERP calls a ‘Geocode.’
Forgive my confusion, since I thought the whole point of ‘geocoding’ was to get coordinates, or a code of some sort, which would let you specify the location of something […]

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More on the MacArthur Maze

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

SFGate had a nice article on how various mapping services and device manufacturers have reacted to the MacArthur Maze incident.
Brady Forrest, your Where 2.0 program chair, and Jeremy Kreitler, director of product management for Yahoo Maps,  were both quoted.  I love what Jeremy said “‘We want to react to this and put a fix in […]

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