It is because you just added it.
Before you get your next email, it should have found the name from the wiki. It doesn't look up immediately because the geohashing wiki is prone to going slow sometimes. I don't want to slow down the site for you whilst waiting for the wiki.

I could use the peeron lookup tool, but people sometimes change graticule names and peeron doesn't update, so i rather get it from the wiki.

If it doesn't find the name within 24 hours, please open another ticket.

Done for geohashes, apart from the PDF poster. I'm still thinking about that, whether it needs a short url with a QR code, and where it should go to ... and yah.

I have made a page with links to the wiki, peeron, anthill and the google earth feed.
Also shows a map of the graticule with upcoming geohashes marked.
Links to twitter, flickr and youtube searches.
Twitter widget and flickr photos widget.

All this is subject to change but i'm happy with it for the time being! :)

done.

oh dear, looks like google threw a wobbly. i probably need to enter my api key to keep it happy. i will send out today's emails again.

seems to bo okay now that i have pacified it with a google key.

I would love to have an openlayers.org map here.. allowing you to switch between the google/bing satellite image and the openstreetmap quickly. Over here, the OSM is much more detailed, up-to-date and accurate than the google maps.

i'm closing this one for the time being because i've decided not to do it after all.
all the links and map images are now available on the geohash page.

done, but not with the pictures. i have decided not to do pictures in emails.

Done, deployed to Heroku today. Changes will be noticed in the next email, on monday.

Hi relet, i'm not quite sure what you mean. do you want the current geohash locations to show up within my subscriptions? that is something i've been thinking of doing.

yes. the location as coordinates and the textual description as provided by geokit.
good to hear that it's already in the making. ;)

on the "my subscriptions" page, each subscription box has three columns currently. the coordinates, the links and the unsubscribe link. Between the latter two, there could be a list of all the current and upcoming geohashes. In a vertical arrangement, there should be ample room even in the case of bank holidays and weekends.

Hey Relet,

I've done exactly as you suggested, made an extra column for the latest geohashes.

Woo!

done as suggested.

Fixed by storing the dow jones value as a string.

Ah, interesting, you're now the second person to have that issue. I'll look into it! Thanks for letting me know.

FYI: I am running firefox 3.0.10 on Ubunty jaunty.

very odd, i also use ubuntu jaunty jackalope and firefox 3.5.2 work fine for me. i think the other person to have problems was on both safari/mac and firefox/windows.

it's probably just something about the way i'm loading the google maps api. i'll find it out! :)

hi relet,

i have changed the way it calls the google map. could you check for me whether that works any better now? thanks!

Negative, sorry. :[

hum.
presumably you can see google maps on other sites?
are you using http://activegeohasher.com?
Can you try http://activegeohasher.co.uk just to see if there's any difference?

It's the same shade of blue.

The Google API works fine on other sites, both the static and the dynamic versions, e.g. on peeron and tjum. I've also tried to disable any filter plugins, even though they didn't complain.

Could be an ajax issue.. The form itself looks fine to me, but update_location does not have any content.

Thanks for your investigations. The blue is in fact irrelevant - it's just a colour i put into the CSS to show something whilst the map is loading. For you the map is just not coming up at all.

The /update_location is fine but it requires a PUT not a GET. If you could set your location on the map, that would work fine.

I'll have another careful look and see if i can spot the difference between this and other sites which use google maps.

Another person has now reported the problem. i wonder what is wrong ...?

Aha! i think the problem was that @google.loader.ClientLocation@ does not work reliably. So i am now using the controller to guess the location from ip address, or set it somewhere in the middle of Europe if it can't detect that way.

Of course, once you have set your location it will come back there. It's just when it tries to guess initially to put you vaguely in the right place.

I also exposed the text boxes so that you can enter coordinates yourself if the map doesn't work. So there is a solution either way. But the map should definitely work for everybody now! :)

Thanks! Where do you envisage the link to this? Is it the same link going out in an email every day, based on the user's home location? Or is it different per day/graticule?

Do you want it on the site somewhere?

I would suggest to put it next to the peeron link in the graticule box and in the email if there's the peeron link (I haven't seen the email yet). Maybe have a preference setting specifying whether you want to see peeron and/or tjum showing up in the box.

For the link to remain valid after the end of the day, it should include date and either the user home location (for the home graticule), or maybe the center of the graticule for any other graticule (i.e. 52.5, 13.5 instead of 52,13). It shows the distance in kilometres from the indicated position to the geohash.

I'm doing it now for you. Does Tjum stand for anything? Is it somebody's id?
How should i refer to the tool?

decided to refer to the tool as 'anthill' at ekorren's suggestion.
links are on the subscription page, and will come in emails from tomorrow.