Many APIs that provide location-specific information require information like an address or geographical coordinates to provide the correct data. Some APIs specifically require longitude and latitude coordinates for successful calls. How do you get that information for a specific location? In the past, it has not been easy to find, but many services now provide geocoding. I’ll share a sample using an API that Nominatim/OpenStreetMap exposes to retrieve the necessary information.

Thanks to everyone that provided feedback during the beta period. With the beta expiring at the beginning of April, we’ve made some updates released this new version as a general release and out of beta. If you’re not familiar, Camever is a webcam capture tool designed to work with most Foscam and Amcrest cameras that support the retrieval of an image from it’s snapshot.cgi in a web browser.

This is an “Armchair Coder” I’ve been working on this since the holidays, so today I’m releasing the beta of Camever. Camever is a webcam capture tool designed to work with most Foscam and Amcrest cameras that support the retrieval of an image from it’s snapshot.cgi in a web browser.

Last month I released the Time Lapse Tool (free and open source) which builds time lapse movies from JPG images that you provide. Start the tool, set some options, browse to add your image files and let it do it’s thing. Presto! You have a time lapse movie.