New Simplegeo Products: Introducing Context & Places

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34 points·emilepetrone··10 comments

Jesus, those icons are gorgeous. Bigger versions here:

Reminds me of the new Disqus graphics - looks like 3D is the new gradient.

A company called SoftFacade does our icon work. http://wow.softfacade.com/

That's because they were done by the same people, take a look at their 'portfolio' on Dribbble - it's really impressive: http://dribbble.com/softfacade

Side note to HNers, if you're in need of great design then I'd recommend perusing Dribbble. I've found a few freelancers there that have done some amazing work.

Full size can be seen here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/softfacade/5244241757

SimCity meets 37Signals.

(Disclaimer: I work on SimpleGeo Context) Context can pinpoint a lat/lon to the Longhorns' football stadium or the UT campus: https://gist.github.com/11e86c689cca9f65bc3d We have tons of hyper-local boundaries indexed including museums, parks, churches, etc.

I had some ?s regarding Context and using it in my app. Could you e-mail me (check my profile).

Here are some demos: http://schuyler.github.com/simplegeo-context-demo/ http://schuyler.github.com/simplegeo-places-demo/

I assume the search for places-demo should work by pressing enter? Nothing happening for me... Or am I just looking at the wrong locations? I was testing with the map zoomed in Manila, PH, and Turku, Finland.

My browser is Chrome 8.0.552.215 beta on Windows Vista.

Search demo: Tried panning the map and zooming to New York and searching for "Starbucks" and "coffee", no luck... Am I missing something?

Context demo: Clicking on map, nothing happens. Maybe the service is down?

Very timely... considering that both Google and Facebook are getting into contextual search

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