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January 22, 2003

geoTracker 1.0

How's the weather in Tokio? I have no idea, but Marcos Weslamp has. He has built a cool graphical multiuser application called geoTracker based on his Zoompane Component which allows you to check the weather all around the world. To achieve this, it connects to several webservices and determines your geographical location through your IP adress. A nice thing about it is that you can see what other visitors are doing at at the same time.

I guess this concept could be expanded to more than just weather - let's see if he will add more functionality in version 1.1...

Posted at January 22, 2003 11:10 AM | Further reading

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Very, very cool. I found my city -- Kharkov -- on this map!

Posted by: Rost on January 24, 2003 07:51 AM

Interesting, but the precision for german ips could be better. i have seen a german service named geolizer http://www.geolizer.de that is commercial, but has a demo account for 10 requests per day,
cheers, gerald

Posted by: Gerald on February 5, 2003 11:34 PM

addendum: it has a precision of <50km for german IPs, IPs in other countries are only assigned to the country.

Posted by: Gerald on February 5, 2003 11:40 PM


	« Lightwave \| Home \| Elastic Tween » January 22, 2003 geoTracker 1.0 How's the weather in Tokio? I have no idea, but Marcos Weslamp has. He has built a cool graphical multiuser application called geoTracker based on his Zoompane Component which allows you to check the weather all around the world. To achieve this, it connects to several webservices and determines your geographical location through your IP adress. A nice thing about it is that you can see what other visitors are doing at at the same time. I guess this concept could be expanded to more than just weather - let's see if he will add more functionality in version 1.1... Posted at January 22, 2003 11:10 AM \| Further reading Comments Very, very cool. I found my city -- Kharkov -- on this map! :) Posted by: Rost on January 24, 2003 07:51 AM Interesting, but the precision for german ips could be better. i have seen a german service named geolizer http://www.geolizer.de that is commercial, but has a demo account for 10 requests per day, cheers, gerald Posted by: Gerald on February 5, 2003 11:34 PM addendum: it has a precision of <50km for german IPs, IPs in other countries are only assigned to the country. Posted by: Gerald on February 5, 2003 11:40 PM Post a comment Name: Email Address: URL: Comments: Remember info?
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