Okay, I am not very good at this jounralism malarky, so this is really just going to end up more a thought-vomit than anything else. Google 3 beta1 is going to have geocoding built in to, and for us users that cant wait, we can download the new Geode extension for firefox 3. Now, sadly I couldn't get it to work on my office computer, not sure why, could be a UK thing.
But my main interest comes from how useful this could be. I recently watched Dave Gormans America Unchained where he found it hard to find local service stations that weren't owned by 'The Man'. Now, with this on your phone, you could in theory have it show you automatically where all these stations are in your browser rather than having to install a seperate app. And so, any device with mozilla firefox would be able to track location.
CASE:
Go to a new city for one night, want to know the closest pub, go to beerintheevening.com, straight away it lists the closest pubs to where you are. No need to tell google maps, or know the postcode for where you are. Whilst I am sure further uses other then time saving utilities will come from this, I am still quite interested in this now.
Why oh why doesn't it work on my computer!
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