iestyn.net » api http://www.iestyn.net/wp "the concrete world is starting to get ya." Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:27:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Wildlife Near You http://www.iestyn.net/wp/2010/01/13/wildlife-near-you http://www.iestyn.net/wp/2010/01/13/wildlife-near-you#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:55:19 +0000 Iestyn http://www.iestyn.net/wp/?p=622 Where’s the nearest Rainbow Trout to London? How about the nearest cow to Malaysia? or Everything near Brighton? www.wildlifenearyou.com is a site that allows you to track where you’ve seen wildlife all over the planet, allowing correct classification of the animals, and indexing the locations where they were found. It’s a great example of building a useful service on top of several APIs (inlcuding Flickr and Google Maps) and utilising social tagging to glue the data together.

Simon tells me there will be an API for WLNY soon, so you can write an app to find out, for instance, where the nearest Komodo Dragon to Basingstoke is, or perhaps you just want to go somewhere interesting at the weekend and find out what you can see and where. I could definitely see myself using the site for that.

Check out my profile – several of my favourite photos are linked from there. For now, here’s a photo of a European Robin from Pulborough Brooks:

Robin

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