Explore Our Planet

Google AdSense Quality Team has forced me to change the layout of the map explorer. Now there is a toolbar on the right side with permallink and clickmap. Registered Users will find the permalink in the info section of the flyout menu . I'd like to say tha ...>>

This is just an announcement and the supporting post for the tutorial describing how to implement labeled permalinks for Google Maps. Read everything about here and use the comment function below for questions and proposals: Tutorial for labeled permalinks, ...>>

In the upper right corner ExploreOurPla.net now has a location detector. It displays the location of the center of the map and provides a labeled permalink ready for your bookmarks and mails. After every move ExplorerOurPla.net connects to geonames.org, s ...>>

With the help of a polish user K. Ciszewski we finally have some results in geotagging polish rss feeds. If you like to improve the geotagging service and see more polish news on the map, the build in feedback mechanism is your choice. Simply mark a word/p ...>>

ExploreOurPla.net is beta testing the new Google Mail for Domains and I can offer five mail acounts for free to anybody interested. Just send a mail to admin {at} ExploreOurPla.net, first in - first out. You will get the mail address you like, may use Googl ...>>

As announced yesterday Google Maps now includes an API to provide geocoding. When you want to see a place on the map, simply write the address in the box and hit enter. When Google finds something the explorer opens and gives you an overview of the sea ...>>

More than 90% of all news of the world refer to a place on our Planet. With the latest geoRSS feed reader you can read, listen and view latest news on the map and use links to mentioned places. The geofeedExplorer displays colored icons for each news ent ...>>

While analyzing the log files from ExploreOurPla.net I see a surprising amount of 20% are users from Poland. You're welcome! Too bad, I can not read any word of Polish. However I'd like to ask you for a favour: could you send me links of RSS ...>>

During the development of the geoRSS widget for ExploreOurPla.net I used this list for testing: newsrss.bbc.co.uk//rss/newsonline_world_ ... rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/climatechange ... rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/earthquakes ... rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/hurricane ...>>

After a while of silent ExploreOurPla.net adapts to new Google Maps 2. Google made major changes to their code and map database. The update will give you overlays and more detailed maps. Google Satellite Maps provides more high resolution pictures, mainly o ...>>

A new JSON service from geonames.org is online. It works together with the Daily Terra layer and the calendar widget. Currently it displays data from last 30 days depending on your choosed date. Latest Cyclones near Australia have been Larry and Glenda. ...>>

Latest JSON service from geonames provides near realtime weather from Internet Weather Source. More than 7200 airports update every hour. Current temperature and wind direction is displayed via an icon.<-40°C<-20°C<0°C<10°C< ...>>

As a result of collaboration with geonames.org we proudly unleash the first 2 new map extensions: Placenames and Earthquakes. Both extensions are part of the default geoLink (999) , you can toggle them (FireFox only) with Alt-p for placenames or Alt-q for e ...>>

Many thanks to all helping to improve the codebase of the Internet. Latest Firefox plugin called FireBug has dramatically changed and improved my programming performance. Using Ajax has turned from a hazzle to a pleasure with FireBugs XML inspector. T ...>>

Still not ready, at least the geoLink engine runs now. I like it when a major rewrite reduces amount of code. Research is needed to use methods with object initializers in JavaScript. Help is welcome here. per post geoLink in post.php picturelink doe ...>>

It is really annoying to develop for Firefox *and* Internet Explorer. Both do different CSS and Javascript. For me a two monitor setup saves time and clicks. As the blog's sidebar went bigger and bigger I was looking for a solution capable of saving the curr ...>>

Not really started, some things are online other aren't even touched. If you are interested, contact for more info. Update: I'd like to send thanks from here to geonames.org. Marc's service is good and fast. Quirks are solved within hours and the data is r ...>>