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May 10

For The Cartographer In You: A London Maps Meetup

Posted on 18th May 2010 by Gary

It may have escaped your notice but London is pretty much map mad at the moment. If it’s not documentaries on the BBC it’s exhibitions of maps at the British Library. Which seems an apt and fitting time to organise … Continue reading →

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17
May 10

The Evolution of Geotastic!

Posted on 17th May 2010 by Gary

Sadly the domain geotastic.com is already taken but even so a Google search on “gary gale geotastic” shows www.garygale.com as the prime hit (and we’ll just conveniently gloss over the “did you mean: gary gale egotastic” suggestion). And now, hot … Continue reading →

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05
May 10

Facebook’s (Creepy) Bid For Your Homepage

Posted on 5th May 2010 by Gary

Most browsers have a variation on the theme of a home page, which automagically loads your favourite web page when you start the browser or open a new browser window or tab. A lot of web sites try to capitalise … Continue reading →

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Apr 10

Placebook … Facebook “Places” In The Wild

Posted on 26th April 2010 by Gary

After much teasing and tantalising, one of the long rumoured Facebook location features is out in the wild in the form of place community pages. They vary in scale from a hamlet in Spain … … through to New York … Continue reading →

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Apr 10

Fighting GeoBabel on Two Fronts

Posted on 21st April 2010 by Gary

The well known, highly opinionated and occasionally error prone Tech Crunch seems to think there’s a location war going on. A search for the keywords location and war on the site yields strident post titles including Just In Time For … Continue reading →

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