GeoURL re-launched...
December 26, 2004Many amongst us bloggers know the the service www.geourl.org. It offered a way to register your blog in a directory for certain geographical coordinates. Furthermore, there was a way to get a list of other blogs which are near to your blog.
However, for what reason ever, since May/June this year, the service is down for renovations and has not relaunched yet so far. Since I liked the idea of this services and I realized that others do as well, I was setting up a re-making of it, which I have launched at the URL http://www.geourl.info now.
Please feel free and register your blog and tell your blog buddies to register their site, too.
For all MovableType bloggers using the MTLocation plugin: To adjust the URL from '.com' or '.org' to '.info', you have to edit the the 'mt_location.pl' file (you find it in your plugins directory of your MovableType installtion) and change the URL-ending in function location so that it looks like this:
sub location {
my $ctx = shift;
my $args = shift;
return "" unless $ctx->stash('entry')->keywords;
= split (/ /, $ctx->stash('entry')->keywords);
foreach (@keywords) {
if (/^loc/) {
my ;
if ($args->{geourl} && $latitude && $longitude) {
return
"<a href="'http://www.geourl.info/near/?">$name</a>";
}
else {
return $name;
}
}
}
return "Somewhere, SW";
}
For being compatible with the old URLs like
http://www.geourl.info/near/?lat=51.5567&lon=-0.0505&dist=50'
GeoURL.info offers the same query syntax as the former GeoURL site did. That means, you really have to change the URL-ending only. If you have any comments or wishes, don't hesitate to write a comment or send me a .
Have fun with the new GeoURL service!
Erik Lane Says:
December 27, 2004 02:25 PM
Cool work! If you're in the US you can pin-point your coordinates down to your address (if you want to) by going here:
http://www.geocode.com/modules.php?name=TestDrive_Eagle