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Leaflet: A Library for Interactive Maps

Gerade (wieder) auf Leaflet gestossen:

Leaflet is a modern, lightweight BSD-licensed JavaScript library for making tile-based interactive maps for both desktop and mobile web browsers, developed by CloudMade to form the core of its next generation JavaScript API.

It is built from the ground up to work efficiently and smoothly on both platforms, utilizing cutting-edge technologies included in HTML5. Its top priorities are usability, performance, small size, A-grade browser support, flexibility and easy to use API. The OOP-based code of the library is designed to be modular, extensible and very easy to understand. Find out more on the features page.

Nachdem Google angekündigt hat Geld für Google Maps zu nehmen werden die Alternativen ja deutlich interessanter.

daily links

• TYPO3 - the Enterprise Open Source CMS: Documentation: dmc GeoIP (EXT: dmc_geoIP)
  The dmc_geoIP extension uses the free database by MaxMind to determine the country of residence for visitors based on their IP address.
  The extension will make sure every visitor browses the correct rootpage tree for his country of residence. So for example certain pagetrees can be denied to users from specified countries.
  Intended uses
  This extension will be useful for sites that provide localized content for clients from various countries. So if visitors from the USA are meant to see only the pages within the ‘us’ pagetree, while visitors from other countries are allowed to gain access to their intended pagetree the extension does just that.
• GeoIP Redirect | drupal.org
  GeoIP Redirect uses the GeoIP API (http://drupal.org/project/geoip) to redirect a user from your site to a different one based on their country of origin. The primary use-case is that you have 2 different markets and want to ensure users are accessing the correct form of that material. Here is a typical workflow for this module:<br />
  _You configure module to redirect all UK page views to exampleUK.com<br />
  _User accesses exampleOther.com from the US, France, etc and is granted access to the site<br />
  BUT<br />
  _User accesses exampleOther.com from the UK, they are granted access with a prompt on screen informing them of the UK version and asking if they’d like to go there<br />
  _If they ignore it, it keeps showing up throughout their session, if they hit go to UK site, it takes them there.<br />
  _There is also a checkbox for setting a cookie optionally to remember the selection
• Views Hacks | drupal.org
  This package contains a set of small Views add-ons that provide useful functionalities.<br />
  _Exposes blocks as Views objects.<br />
  _Auto-submits exposed filters on change.<br />
  _Provides a table style with rows and columns flipped.<br />
  _Restricts exposed filter values to those present in the result set.
• FancyBox - TYPO3
  This extension integrates the jQuery plugin FancyBox into TYPO3. FancyBox is a fancy lightbox alternative. It replaces the "Enlarge on Click" functionality with the FancyBox (supports tt_news). See http://www.fancybox.net/ for demos.
• Block2Field | drupal.org
  A simple module to show blocks in a field. It can take any block and put it inside a node. This makes it easier to put relevant content before or after the node body and before the comments. This allows some theming that couldn’t be done if the blocks are outside of a node, e.g. float.<br />
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  Technically this module is just a text field formatter. It’ll invoke the corresponding blocks specified in the text field and output. If the block is a Views block, arguments can be passed too!

Geolocation und Geocoding mit MooTools

Das MooTools Plugin MooGeo bietet eine ganze Menge geobezogener Features:

• you can scrape a certain document at a URL for geographical locations
• you can find the user (using the W3C geolocation API)
• you can find geographical data from a text
• you can get the place from an IP number
• you can get all kind of data from a latitude/longitude pair.
• you can send the lat/lon as an array
• you can grab simply the user’s ip

Geolocation Spoofing

Zack Whittaker erklärt wie man mit der BlackBerry Simulation Software seine Geolocation für Facebook oder Twitter frei wählen kann.

This simulator and Facebook Places was not designed to be abused in this way, but it can be exploited. There are funny and interesting attributes to this exploit, but unfortunately all I can think are the negative ones. I guess it does bring a whole new meaning to the saying, “where do you want to go today“?

Positioning with Geolocation

Ein Artikel auf mobile.tuts+ erklärt die ersten Schritte der Nutzung von Geolocation in Smartphones.

• Browser geolocation and how it works
• How Asynchronous function calls work
• How to use the getCurrentPosition API
• What’s in geolocation data
• How to fall back on IP address based geolocation when browsers don’t provide native support
• How to display a map using geolocation data
• How to use the watchPosition and clearWatch APIs