memespring

I’m building a local email group finder for mysociety at the moment, the idea being that people will be able to find those hidden online communities where they live. The aim is to make the site work anywhere in the world from the out, so I’ve been making a lot of use of the GAZE gazetteer. (GAZE is a web service that gives you useful geographic information like searching for place names and population density).

I’ve written a basic wrapper for it in PHP which I thought was worth splitting out from the rest of the code, so here it is.