Sacramento Home Journal

John Lockwood
May 30th, 2007
Maps, Neighborhoods, Sacramento
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Map of the Week this week goes to Sacramento County’s “Cities in the County” map, which has links to the city government information in each case, as well as links to the city maps themselves. Can you name the seven cities?

Well, sure, if you look at the map you can.

What’s our mnemonic device, students?

“Can Everyone Find Good Ideas Regarding Sacramento?”

Citrus Heights

Elk Grove

Folsom

Galt

Islton

Rancho Cordova

Sacramento

I wonder how the folks in Isleton feel about being quaint?

John Lockwood
May 28th, 2007
All the Rest, Maps
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This evening I happened across Dan Catt’s awesome Geobloggers Blog. Dan is a Flickr developer working on Flickr’s Geotagging feature.

Of course, in the know sort of guy that I am, the first words that popped into my brain were: “Flickr has Geotagging Feature? Really? What’s up with that?”

After poking around Dan’s Blog and my pathetically picture-sparse Flickr account (I have a map blog, not a photo blog, and now you see why), I found some really fun stuff.

First, it’s very easy to geotag your photos once they’re in Flickr. You can probably figure it out when you see the big old “Map” tag, but in case you can’t, no worries. Flickr put together a tutorial on how to do it.

Of course Flickr being a Yahoo company guess whose API they’re using? Did you say Yahoo? See, like me, then, you’re smarter than a fifth grader.

So tagging your photos is pretty straightforward. Once tagged, there are lots of neat ways to get at them. For example, users or mashups or whomever can subscribe to the RSS feed for a particular Geotagged area. Dan shows you how.

Here’s the RSS Feed for Sacramento Flickr Photos, for example.

Naturally being a Flickr power-user with an awesome seven photos in there of our listing in Folsom, the first thing I had to try was geotagging them and seeing if they showed up in Folsom’s Flickr Photo RSS Feed. Sure enough, there they are. (Well, as of now they are — you know how it is with feeds).

Hey, Athol Kay is a photo-savvy kind of guy. He should know about this. He probably has more than seven photos in Flickr. If not, make sure to razz him.

John Lockwood
May 26th, 2007
All the Rest
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Last night I was working on my first multi-property real estate maps, and I have some examples up and running.  You can get to them by way of the Zip code index, then by clicking the ”MLS Listing (Map View)” link from inside the zip code display.

Yes — I know:  If it sounds that hard, there should be a new way (or two or three) to navigate these pages).

Anyway, to give you an idea, here’s the page for the Arden Arcade (95864) area.

John Lockwood
May 25th, 2007
All the Rest
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The Sacramento Map Project is a software development and web site project that is dedicated to being the premier resource for maps and mapping data for Sacramento (City, County, and the Greater Sacramento area).   If it has to do with Sacramento area maps or map data, it’s here, or it should be.   Readers are cordially invited to submit:

• URLs of related sites that contain maps of the area.
• Information about map “mashups” or request for Sacramento map mashups.
• Proposals for guest articles about local neighborhoods, cities, etc.  — anything with a place name.

In addition to being a resource for area map data, we intend to be an active publisher of Sacramento area mashups.