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Re:New Simplegeo Products: Introducing Context & Places by alabut on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @04:26PM (#1984679)
Jesus, those icons are gorgeous. Bigger versions here:

http://simplegeo.com/products/

Reminds me of the new Disqus graphics - looks like 3D is the new gradient.

Re:New Simplegeo Products: Introducing Context & Places by tbgvi on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @04:36PM (#1984710)
That's because they were done by the same people, take a look at their 'portfolio' on Dribbble - it's really impressive: http://dribbble.com/softfacade

Side note to HNers, if you're in need of great design then I'd recommend perusing Dribbble. I've found a few freelancers there that have done some amazing work.

Full size can be seen here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/softfacade/5244241757

Re:New Simplegeo Products: Introducing Context & Places by indiekid on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @04:34PM (#1984705)
A company called SoftFacade does our icon work. http://wow.softfacade.com/
Re:New Simplegeo Products: Introducing Context & Places by jbail on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @04:41PM (#1984729)
SimCity meets 37Signals.
Re:New Simplegeo Products: Introducing Context & Places by aguynamedben on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @05:32PM (#1984946)
(Disclaimer: I work on SimpleGeo Context) Context can pinpoint a lat/lon to the Longhorns' football stadium or the UT campus: https://gist.github.com/11e86c689cca9f65bc3d We have tons of hyper-local boundaries indexed including museums, parks, churches, etc.
Re:New Simplegeo Products: Introducing Context & Places by zoudini on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @08:25PM (#1985561)
I had some ?s regarding Context and using it in my app. Could you e-mail me (check my profile).
Re:New Simplegeo Products: Introducing Context & Places by aguynamedben on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @08:30PM (#1985577)
Re:New Simplegeo Products: Introducing Context & Places by asmosoinio on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @09:11PM (#1985691)
I assume the search for places-demo should work by pressing enter? Nothing happening for me... Or am I just looking at the wrong locations? I was testing with the map zoomed in Manila, PH, and Turku, Finland.

My browser is Chrome 8.0.552.215 beta on Windows Vista.

Re:New Simplegeo Products: Introducing Context & Places by asmosoinio on Friday December 10, 2010 @01:54AM (#1990913)
Search demo: Tried panning the map and zooming to New York and searching for "Starbucks" and "coffee", no luck... Am I missing something?

Context demo: Clicking on map, nothing happens. Maybe the service is down?

Re:New Simplegeo Products: Introducing Context & Places by americandesi333 on Wednesday December 08, 2010 @04:41PM (#1984728)
Very timely... considering that both Google and Facebook are getting into contextual search