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GeoURL: We Know Where You Live, Work and Blog!
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."
That's right folks, now all you bored /.'ers can finally find an attractive local girl to stalk! Just enter your location into the convenient form, hit 'Submit', and stalk away!
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If they are successful (will need a very large database), then I bet Google would be very interested.
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For some reason this strikes me as a service to NOT sign up for... why would I want semi-anonymouse visitors to my blog to know where I live?
Be good for signing up a business address, though..
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I'm not about to give them ANY information unless I can download a full dump of their database whenever I want.
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.'.
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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?
Is it the same as this http://www.networldmap.com/TryIt.htm of is it different ?
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This looks similar to what was done in the google programming contest!
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.)
Looks like no one will be stalking random local girls anytime until this story drops off the front page...
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
Not that anyone uses the DNS LEO entries (RFC 1876).
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 ....
Really. It's co-loed in Ohio. I'm not in Ohio. And my companies website? It's 300 miles away. How functional can this be, really?
- Dan I.
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 about this topic. Some geolocation companies state 98% accuracy, 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 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.
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!
You know, if Google decided to search for a specific META tag that gives the geographic location of a company, then I'm betting a lot of designers/companies would add it immediately (and update old sites). If they announced this new tag I'd certainly update some sites!
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.
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
I think as the net gets more and more mainstream, it becomes safer and safer to share your personal information online- I think it'll get to a point where it's as safe as real life- whether that be sharing your phone number in your sig, writing your name on a bathroom stall, or filling out all the info on a Church flyer. That is, real life isn't that safe either, but it's safer than what we fear online. Also then again, I'm not in the right demographic for my claims to be bold. If I were a 16 year old girl saying the same thing, these words would have a different weight behind them. Instead, knowing that I'm a 23 year old male and having a phone number of 603 330 3532- I just proved that it's not a big deal cause there ain't but nobody who's gonna look that up, much less call it, and MUCH less stalk me by it. :D "As the Internet becomes less and less an exclusive club, it becomes a universe, common to all, and sacred to none." When's the last time you heard of someone getting hacked via YellowPages?
slashdot: where everyone yells sarcastic metaphors to themselves to understand the issue
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...
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