Where Open Voice meets Geocoding
Geocoding is hot. "Geocoding is the process of assigning geographic identifiers (e.g., codes or geographic coordinates expressed as latitude-longitude) to map features and other data records, such as street addresses. You can also geocode media, for example where a picture was taken, IP addresses, and anything that has a geographic component. With geographic coordinates the features can be mapped and entered into Geographic Information Systems" - wikipedia. Using the MapQuest API we can geocode any address in the world. In my recent article on Open Voice I showed how to use C# and .NET to build a Voice over IP phone. I've also been exploring the possibilities of the MapQuest .NET API on my blog. Now wouldn't it be great if those two worlds came together to build a phone that displays the location of the person you're calling? I call it the AIM Map Phone. And it looks like this:
