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GeoURL: We Know Where You Live, Work and Blog!
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timothy
on Wed Jan 08, 2003 04:26 AM
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hrbrmstr writes "GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory. This will allow you to find URLs by their proximity to a given location. Find your neighbor's blog, perhaps, or the web page of the restaurants near you. Many potential 'location-based services' can spring from this if the database gets big enough. The site has an easy process for maintaining your entries. And can even generate RSS feeds for a given geographical area."
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That's right! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:That's right! (Score:5, Funny)
Now, I don't want to alarm anybody, but I'm fairly sure to *stalk* 'women' you have to leave the house. This is a scary concept for us all... I think I will stick to downloading pr0n of that lovely housewife next door who wants me. She does. I'm serious you guys.
Re:That's right! (Score:4, Funny)
There goes the neighborhood? (Score:3, Insightful)
Posting anonymously for effect, of course....
Probably bought by Google. (Score:5, Insightful)
If they are successful (will need a very large database), then I bet Google would be very interested.
--free sex [slashdot.org]
Why do it by hand? (Score:4, Insightful)
At the moment, it would be a bit hit and miss to try to search for an address in a page to generate the database programmatically.
Ahem? (Score:3, Funny)
Just so half of this planet's socially challenged would appear on my doorstep and want a beer?
Re:Ahem? (Score:4, Insightful)
Nice idea, but (Score:1)
yikes (Score:5, Interesting)
Be good for signing up a business address, though..
Only RSS per location? (Score:5, Insightful)
Anyone remember how badly people got burned by CDDB? Its the same buisness plan;
Phase 1) Invent neat idea with a few good uses so that people will populate your content
Phase 2) ???
Phase 3) Profit!
where ??? becomes 'Fuck over users, start charging for access, bite hand that feeds.'.
lots of locations are arbitrary in a mobile world (Score:5, Interesting)
this site might not always make much sense for individuals. the situation is similar to that of american telephone area codes; in our highly traveled world they are starting to lose their value as a location indicator, what with mobile phones, choice of area codes for faxes etc, and (in theory) relocatable phone numbers. you can choose a location, but it might only be true sometimes.
better to link it to your frequent flyer number, perhaps?
geourl mapping using php and mysql (Score:4, Informative)
Re:geourl mapping using php and mysql (Score:5, Informative)
The article talks about a service which is comprised of user-submitted links where you might find bloggers near your community just by providing coordinates on the globe, and specify the threshold of the perimeter in miles.
idea stolen from google contest (Score:5, Interesting)
This looks similar to what was done in the google programming contest [google.com]!
I wonder when google plans to implement this?
It's a really neat idea! And google's method sounds like it should work better than GeoURL's
(which requires people to submit their location info, rather than just swipe it off the web site.)
Just what we need... (Score:2, Funny)
database (Score:2, Funny)
Many potential 'location-based services' can spring from this if the database gets big enough.
...assuming they backed it up before the server melted.
Usuful application (Score:1)
slashdotted (Score:4, Funny)
Geolocation is the future (Score:3, Informative)
Here are some Debian geolocation links for you:
DNS already has this (to an extent) (Score:5, Interesting)
Not that anyone uses the DNS LEO entries (RFC 1876 [ckdhr.com]).
This allows DNS names (and thus via rDNS, IPs) to store longitude, latitude, even elevation. (I did have a nice diagram here, but the ever so shit lameness filter said I had too much whitespace). The entries themselves look like this
loiosh.kei.com. LOC 42 21 43.528 N 71 05 06.284 W 12m
kei.com. LOC 42 21 43.528 N 71 05 06.284 W 12m 30m
vrx.net. LOC 43 40 N 79 25 W 30m
But, of course, DNS on a host doesn't allow for all that stalking you can do should amihotornot start supporting this on a per URL basis ....
My Blog is 500+ miles away (Score:4, Insightful)
Moblie / GPS and this.. (Score:1)
I think it was HP, or some company like that. Were looking into spacial messaging. Ie your phone can look up messages/pages based uppon your location.
At the time I thought it was really interesting and had a lot of applications. In theory you could get user reviews of the place you are going to eat, just before you go it. Find out if the shop you are in has better online prices than they do in store. Loads of stuff.
This is another thing on my 'meant to look into but have forgotten all of the important details' list.
IP-based lookup (Score:4, Informative)
The site is slashdotted, so I haven't been able to have a look at it. However, if I were building a geo-search engine, I'd use the WHOIS data for the bulk of the indexing work, and for providing a default location for visitors. The tweaking around the edges (changing the location of the website or page), is just icing on the cake.
No one really knows the accuracy of IP->Country lookup. There's an onlgoing thread on the london perl mongers list [pm.org] about this topic. Some geolocation companies state 98% accuracy [washingtonpost.com], which is pure bullshit. It's more likely to be around 70%, with most of the error occuring in overestimation of US addresses.
By the way, if you want a fast IP locator, here's one [cpan.org] that's just as accurate as any of the commercial products. I'm surprised more people don't use this sort of stuff for providing intelligent defaults for their users when filling in HTML forms.
finding spammers and crackers (Score:4, Funny)
This is a great concept! I absolutely love it!
Now I can associate addresses to the script kiddies trying to break into my servers, hunt them down, and beat the ever loving crap out of them with baseball bats and chains.
Finally, something useful on the internet!
Isnt there an easier way...... (Score:2, Interesting)
For example I could embed the information
city:London
zip:SW9
Then by searching for that string (I refuse to use the phrase Googling) in your fave search engine, you could find people in your area.
Also someone could write a plug-in for browsers to pick up that info and display it in some-way.
Hell if its that important, maybe a new formal meta-tag could be incorporated into the next version of the HTML standard.
Just a few thought
Hm... (Score:1)
Slashdot Effect causes Croaking and Clucking (Score:2, Funny)
System error
error: Can't locate auto/DBI/connect.al in @INC (@INC contains:
context:
275: # whether they should generate a full stack trace (confess() and cluck())
276: # or simply report the caller's package (croak() and carp()), respectively.
277: # confess() and croak() die, carp() and cluck() warn.
278:
279: sub croak { die shortmess @_ }
280: sub confess { die longmess @_ }
281: sub carp { warn shortmess @_ }
282: sub cluck { warn longmess @_ }
283:
code stack:
Sure beats searching whois (Score:1)
Spatial Query (Score:2)
I hope it's not "SELECT * FROM urls WHERE latitude > $a AND latitude $c AND longitude $d;", however based on the slashdotting they've had....
Annoyed (Score:1)
My analysis (Score:2)
It seems geourl.org is located... nowhere. It seems the /. effect can alter the very fact of your physical existence.
dig www.geourl.org (Score:1)
www.geourl.org. 28m24s IN A 127.0.0.1
So, whichever whacked out moderator moderated my original post on this as OverRated, buzz off.
Why is their A record pointing to 127.0.0.1?
Is it just me..? (Score:1)
Thieves.. (Score:4, Interesting)
Thief 1: Let's see.. who in this area has a blog..
Thief 2: Several!
Thief 1:How many talk about the goodies in their house?
Thief 2:Hmm new home theatre setup 3 doors down..
Thief 1:Good, do they mention working day jobs?
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You get the idea...
By Postal? (Score:2)
Why would we use longitude/latitude. It's one thing to know that a user is somewhere "nearby" and another to whip out the old GPS and track them down to Lat 34 Long 82. Sounds more like a tool to be abused to me.
ICBM? (Score:1)
escort service (Score:1)
what a world. funny how nudity is outlawed on TV, yet violence is ok, then kids shoot eachother and we wonder why, yet pr0n drives every technological breakthrough we've had.
fuckin puritans.
Obligatory Simpsons quote (Score:2)
Domain Name (Score:2, Interesting)
Another approach to this without submissions. (Score:1)
WHOIS databases also contain the address of the people who register the domain names. One could program a bot to lookup domains and parse out the geographic information from their entry and then put that into a database using the technology that the guy in the Google Programming Contest did in order to assign a lat. and long. number (or ICBM number).
Then you could even allow people to update their entries like you can with the online phone books just in case the spider grabbed the wrong information.
This is strange (Score:1)
In the bad old days... (mildly OT) (Score:3, Interesting)
And, no, I wasn't, er, trying to pick up on female CS students. No, never that. It's just conincidence I wound up marrying one.
Honest.
I made a similar site, just for fun (Score:2, Insightful)
http://www.internetional.org/ [internetional.org] if you want to give it a try.
"GeoURL Service Notice" (Score:1)
GeoURL will be down until Friday, 9am EST.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
-- Joshua Schachter, joshua-geourl@burri.to [mailto]
Slashdotted ;)
URL Seems Dead Now (Score:1)
The link seems dead now.
They're using Mason (Score:1)
Re:Quick ! (Score:1)
Owner Name : RALSKY ALAN M
Latitude : 42.5460
Longitude : 83.4284
Taxpayer Addr.: 6747 MINNOW POND DR
City/State/zip: W BLOOMFIELD MI 48322-2663
Census Tract: 1566.00
more info here [spamhaus.org]
Re:ahh the power of /. (Score:1)
At least we know they're using FreeBSD without consulting netcraft
Re:Isn't anyone else getting sick of ... (Score:2)
Re:Isn't anyone else getting sick of ... (Score:1)
Remember those stupid little coloured disks with the characters on them, that kids were trading in the playgrounds?
Those were called pogs not blogs, dude.
Other than that, uh, *cough*, obvious mistake, I have to agree with you.
However, it's supposed to be spelled 'blog, with an apostrophe, short for weblog, which of course is supposed to be taking a shit on the web, I believe.
"What did Spock find in the toilet?"
The Captain's 'blog.
Re:The term blog... (Score:2)
Re:The term blog... (Score:1)
"Hi. I hate the word blog, I'm a fucktard."