March 2005 Archives

Patrick H. Lauke (recenter) made a "GeoURL backwards" Firefox extension. If you install it, it'll light up a little GeoURL globe when the page you are on has ICBM headers. If you click the globe you get sent to see a list of sites nearby. It's really clever.

You can install it by clicking here: http://www.splintered.co.uk/extensions/geourl_0.2.xpi

update - It's now listed on addons.mozilla.org

update - someone else made another 1.5 extension.

Firefox will show a warning at the top of the screen, to proceed click "Edit options" and then "Allow" in the dialog that comes up. That'll make Firefox trust Patrick's site. Click "OK" and then click on the link to the extension again. When the extension has been installed you have to restart Firefox and then get the extension active in the toolbar by going to the menu "View" - "Toolbars" - "Customize" and then drag the GeoURL icon up to the toolbar. Whee, that was a lot of work. But try it, you'll like it.

update - Mark Zeman made a flickr world map extension based on the GeoURL extension.

Thorsten Sommer and Jason Pettus told me a few days ago telling the trackback URLs on the weblog wasn't working. It should work now. Judging from the logs I "missed" one or two hundred trackbacks. Oops.

Also: after you do a ping you should get a few more options for buttons (in 80×15 instead of just the strange 52×14 format).

update - eek, until I get around to install the Trackback moderation I'm going to disable that again. On my regular weblog I get very little trackback spam; but over here there's no end of it.

Some days ago someone (I can't find the mail now, sorry!) pointed out to me how to link to Google Maps by lat/long, so I added links to Google Maps from pages centered around a US site.

Today Laust Ladefoged (recenter) pointed out to me that MultiMap has maps for (almost?) all of the world, so I've added MultiMap links to all pages now.

If you know of a good map service (even if only for your country) that I can link to with lat/long coordinates, please let me know. To make it more likely I'll get around to it, please provide as much information as possible about the parameters required (sometimes the lat/longs are x100 or x1000 for example) and which countries are covered. Thanks!