slurlmarker map

I said I thought it would be neat to map the slurlmarker links from del.icio.us on an SL map, like Landmarker's view. So I finally made it. It uses Plagger to convert del.icio.us' RSS feed for links tagged slurl into a map view, twice an hour.

It would be nice to also show pictures near those places in the map flyouts, but you can't get a Snapzilla feed for a place. So I could additionally map recent pictures like the secondlife.com front page used to, or map globally recent pictures that are near the landmarks, but not the most recent pictures from that place. As soon as the picture gets old enough, it goes away, which would happen plenty often given how many more Snapzilla users there are than slurlmarker users.

It would also have been nice to do it completely client side, using del.icio.us' JSON API, but they only let you get a specific user's bookmarks with JSON. This view is built from everyone's links on the slurl tag, so I had to use Plagger for that.

I expect to add a helpful blurb to the page about how to get the slurlmarker HUD and post places with it, once the vendor is placed in world again.