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On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Matt Hamilton <matth at netsight.co.uk> wrote:
>  You played with Fire Eagle yet?

Only from a user's point of view. I've not written any apps or
anything. I've just added Dopplr.com, Simon Willison's Wikinear.com
and iamnear.net so far.

> I've had a mess about with it, but
>  it seems (at the moment at least) it is lacking in resolutuion in the
>  intermediate levels.  When you ask for a location it will give it to
>  you at the resolution set in the app (IIRC from 0 - 6, 0 being street
>  level, 6 being country level).  When I tried it with addresses in
>  Bristol I could only get '6 Berkeley Square' or 'UK' and nothing in
>  between.  I was hoping to get 'Clifton' or 'Bristol' or something
>  useful like that.

It may well be limited. I've had problems so far with Wikinear, where
my position (as set by Dopplr.com) as being Bath, Somerset, England
gives me Wikipedia entries out near Radstock :s If I tell Fire Eagle
my exact Zip Code, it's OK.

Tim