API

We intend to have a full web service API. Using GET/POST requests, you should be able to submit/receive informaton which interacts the same way our web pages do. All data is available via XML for reuse.

Google Earth

To add YourHistoryHere to Google Earth, such that it automatically shows you the latest additions, auto-updating as you move around, please use this KML file.

Feeds of 50 latest additions

To restrict the RSS feed to a particular geographic area, specify a bounding box in the URL as follows:
http://www.placeopedia.com/cgi-bin/rss.cgi?topleft_long=-1;topleft_lat=54;bottomright_long=1;bottomright_lat=50

Submit data

Fake the submission form effectively. submit.cgi returns XML of failure or success.

Search

Have a target=xml flag to search box.

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About the site

News

"Hello, and welcome to YourHistoryHere, the place where you can share your knowledge about those unusual places, buildings or things that make places interesting to live. This site is on limited circulation at the moment, and is only supposed to be a mySociety demo, not a big posh project like PledgeBank. It may not be obvious, but the most important feature of YourHistoryHere is the construction of an underlying system for collecting and sharing geographic annotations in an open syndicated format, so you can use the yummy local data people leave for your own purposes. We're building two sites that show how this can be useful, this one and Placeopedia.com, and we'd love to share the code for other ideas. Anyone want to build WhereIHadMyFirstKiss.com? Tom Steinberg, mySociety Director - 23/08/2005"