[pLog-svn] Location data for blogs?

[Jon Daley]

 	It probably matters most for mobile bloggers - I don't post from 
too many locations, so my data would be less interesting than yours.

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Oscar Renalias wrote:

> Would anybody find it useful to include location data ("location" as
> in "geographical") as part of a blog? So that we can provide the
> coordinates of our latest picture, article or even the blog?
>
> I couldn't resist the temptation of toying around with the Google
> Maps API and I already have working code that does all this :-) It
> all works via a  pop-up window that loads data from Google Maps and
> allows to comfortably select a location, as well as selecting from
> one of the previously used ones. This has already been integrated
> with resources, blogs and articles (the elements for which location
> data makes sense) and there is also a config parameter that allows to
> enable/disable this, for those who don't feel comfortable with
> revealing so much data.
>
> I was just wondering whether I'm the only one who finds this
> exciting :-) We haven't had a new cool feature for a while and I
> haven't seen any other blogging software implementing anything
> similar yet.
>
> Oscar
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