Just a quick note to highlight a few recent changes to the new Minimap website. Firstly, I have added a new page to the Help section called Share Locations - please note the the Get Lat/Lng HTML addition will not be available until the 0.2.4 Firefox release (Flock 0.8.6). I have also added all the text for the Donors Club extra help pages, although I still need to add some images.

Finally a quick aside, Bruce over at geotagicons.com was kind enough to feature the Minimap Sidebar/geoFlock in the Developer Showcase section!

If you are into geotagging at all, please make sure you check out the geotag icons project. I’ll be looking to incorporate this into the next release of the Minimap Sidebar to replace the current geodiscovery icon.

Nice work Bruce!

I released the Minimap Sidebar addon for Firefox just over a month ago, and so far am pleased with how it has gone. In this time I have had ~10000 downloads, and with the latest release I put on firefox.spatialviews.com today (0.1.4.7) some significant improvements to boot.

Enhancements include three modes; addresses, directions and kml, I have dramatically improved the Map Tab, and also tweaked the handling of kml links so that should behave a lot better.

Lets hope August continues in the same vain!

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Just a quick post to say for those that tried some early versions of the Minimap Sidebar, the latest version has vastly improved address handling such as the ability to specify the country geocoder used and it also offers up address suggestions if similar entries exist in Google’s address database.

Go get the latest version from the minimap site.

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After many requests I have finally managed to find a bit of time to port geoFlock over to a Firefox extension. To find out more about this sidebar extension, head over to firefox.spatialviews.com. The operator script talked about in my previous post is also compatible with this new extension.

Existing users of geoFlock will be able to install and use this extension alongside your current install as they share the same address list. It should be pointed out however, that the Firefox version does not have the photo and blog geotag dialogs; it is not recommened as a standalone install instead of geoFlock unless you do not geotag.

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