Mapping resources: Yahoo! HTTP Geocoder API, Geohashes and Browser-based Geolocation

Links:

• Webmonkey takes a look at Yahoo! Geocoding API
  

  Geocoding is the process of converting human-readable place data -- a city name, ZIP code, or address -- to latitude and longitude points that can be easily plotted on a map.



• Tips & Tricks with Geohashes, another geocoding service, which provides a geohash with gradual precision degradation - instead of latitude and longitude - from human-readable address data.
  
  Not to be confused with xkcd's Spontaneous Adventure Generator.
  
  
  


• Geolocation Redux and a JS Library, a proposal for browser-based geolocation functionality with a JavaScript library to start getting your hands into it. Looks interesting.

Other posts in this series:
Mapping Resources: Google Maps .NET Control, GeoRSS with WCF
Mapping Resources: Mapstraction, Geocommons, GeoCoder.us with C#
Mapping Resources: OpenLayers and OpenStreetMap