Server side reverse geocoding
There is a discussion about the Google Maps/Google Earth APIs Terms of Service: the question is if we are allowed to use them for server side reverse geocoding; to be honest, I didn’t get so deeply acquainted with this subject but what is missing is a clear one line example (*). :) (*) “Enter” in [...]
Vanderbilts ruins
Mark Jaquith has just written some thoughts about Vanderbilts: dear Mark, do you have to go back to the 19th century to find people “of your kind”? That’s a bit sad and it might tell you something about “the splendor of capitalism”. I don’t want to be too rude so let me add a smiling [...]
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Il 31 maggio 2009, un Eurostar Italia Alta (?) Velocità (??) “Frecciarossa” (*) mi portò a Torino, partendo da Firenze, con 87 minuti di ritardo: il personale Trenitalia, in vari modi, informò di un “guasto ai sistemi di controllo della linea” tra Roma e Firenze: alla mia richiesta di rimborso (leggi: bonus), Trenitalia stessa ora [...]
Local KML and MarkerClusterer
Managing KML files with GGeoXml is easy but you can’t use it when your KML is not reachable by Google: you’d better parse it by hand with GXml. Using the JavaScript Google Maps API V2, I wrote the following example (whose KML is valid like its XHTML Strict) as a starting point when you need [...]
