Ross Burtonhttp://www.burtonini.com/blogA potted account of Ross' lifeen60Ross BurtonToday's Geohackcomputers/geo-2008-05-13-10-50http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/geo-2008-05-13-10-50Following hot on the heels of Yahoo's announcement of their Internet Location Platform , I wrote a quick 20-line Python ... Following hot on the heels of Yahoo's announcement of their Internet Location Platform, I wrote a quick 20-line Python hack to convert from latitude and longitude to a place name. Because the ILP doesn't yet expose the ability to go from a position to a WOEID we have to ask the Flickr web services to do this first (as Flickr is owned by Yahoo this is using the same backend). Once we have the WOEID, it can be then be looked up on the ILP and useful information obtained. Example speak more than words: 

$ python geohack.py 
Using position 51.872330 0.161950
Got WOEID 12775
Got town Bishop's Stortford

Now to write a GeoClue provider which will fill in the locality information from the position. Long-term grand plans involve integrating all of this geo magic into Postr, somehow.

NP: Third, Portishead

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