How to find the point furthest from a bunch of other points, as done with this this McDonald's map? [more inside]
posted by StephenF on Oct 6, 2009 - 6 answers

How can I do a redirect based on a users location, but only for the landing page of a website and not subfolders or files? [more inside]
posted by Gomez_in_the_South on Jul 28, 2009 - 5 answers

When in my basement apartment, iPhone OS 2.0 could locate me within 10m of my actual coordinates; OS 3.0, on the other hand, thinks I'm 700m down the road. What gives? [more inside]
posted by onshi on Jul 23, 2009 - 5 answers

How accurate is geolocation detection via IP Address? [more inside]
posted by friedbeef on Jun 23, 2009 - 21 answers

I'm sick of "not available in your country" messages. What's the best workaround? I've tried looking for proxies but I can never seem to find a decent one and when I do find one that works (briefly) changing back and forth is a real pain. [more inside]
posted by alby on Apr 19, 2009 - 10 answers

Is there a Wordpress plugin which will hide sidebar widgets based on geolocation? [more inside]
posted by friedbeef on Nov 13, 2008 - 0 answers

If I looked up at the sky some time at night, pointed to the moon and gave you the exact orientation of my arm (the two angles in the north/south and east/west directions) and told you the exact time of night and date it was, would you be able to tell my exact location in the world? If so, how?
posted by DirtyCreature on May 30, 2007 - 39 answers

I've recently become obsessed with truly mobile streaming video (a la Justin.TV), and would love some hardware and software input. For hardware, I just want a basic, small laptop. For software, I'm looking for something that does live GPS mapping on the web. [more inside]
posted by pzarquon on Apr 27, 2007 - 8 answers

I'm working on a Web site where users will be able to search for events occurring on or around the same day across the World - US, Canada, Mexico, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia etc. and am looking for a decent way to do such a search. [more inside]
posted by bkdelong on Mar 30, 2005 - 4 answers

I'm looking for a site that will give me mapquest-like directions to a place that has no address, but that I do have the lat/lon for. [mi] [more inside]
posted by badstone on Jun 23, 2004 - 4 answers