If you think Boston driving is bad, check this out.

I was working on a Yahoo Pipe last night, and I noticed that Pipes will automatically figure out if you have created a geospatial pipe, and show it on a map without you having to do anything! And to top it off, you can get KML output of your pipe! Now if they drop the old-fashioned W3C Geo point-only format and support real GeoRSS they’ll really have something (hint, hint).

What this means is that you can create and export KML content from Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! now. The mind bubbles at the possibilities…

By the way, if you’re actually interested the content of my Cambridge, MA Happenings pipe and not just the technology, you should know that there are a lot of good events that aren’t getting properly geo-located, so read the feed, not just the map.

Taken late one night in front of the MIT Stata Center.

I updated my Cambridge events geoblog recently. This is a thingy that reads the event listings on Cambridge’s official city web site,
and reformats it into a blog feed. In the process it also attempts to
figure out where the event is happening so you can map it all.

Here’s the raw “geoblog” feed for the last week, and here’s a map
of those events. Please feel free to play with this data stream and
build cool stuff with it. I’d love to see someone build a phone app
that would tell someone what events are going on within a mile of their
location.