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The start of the geolocation web.

July 9, 2009

Today, when you go to maps.google.com, you will notice something new:

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See it? That little button between the map control and the street view man, when pressed, will enable geolocation for maps.

Other sites also have started adopting geolocation. Flickr has created a maps page that has a “Find my location” button that uses geolocation to position you and then show you pictures from your area:

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What other cool sites have you seen?

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  1. http://i.wund.com/ uses geolocation to give you weather. It looks like they only have it turned on for this “iphone” site so far though.

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