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Introducing Fire Eagle and the Fire Eagle Developer APIs

Introducing Fire Eagle and the Fire Eagle Developer APIs


Fire Eagle is a new service designed to make it safe and easy to build and use location-aware applications and services. It's a place where users can store and manage information about their current location that trusted apps and sites can update or access.

Fire Eagle exposes a rich set of web services that allow developers to write location-aware applications. Get started now!

What is Fire Eagle?

Want to make your website or mobile application more relevant or responsive to a user's location? Or maybe you've found a way to capture user location and want to find cool uses for this info? By doing the heavy lifting for you and connecting you to a community of geo-developers, Fire Eagle makes it easier to build location-aware services.

Why update Fire Eagle?

Have you built a service that helps a user find out where they are in the world? By hooking it up with Fire Eagle, your service becomes more useful without any extra work. The service you provide your users can personalize or power dozens of sites and services across the Internet.

Why get my user's locations from Fire Eagle?

Got a website? Fire Eagle makes it simple to make it respond to a user's location. Once your users have authorized your service to collect their location data, you can personalize their experience. Perhaps you want to help people meet one another? Or maybe you just want to know where your readers are coming from. Fire Eagle can help you develop or enhance a range of location-based and location aware features: whether it's geocoding comments on your blog, building real-world games, or creating a networking service for business travelers.

Join our developer community!

Ask and answer questions; share your comments, ideas and code; and show off the stuff you've been building with Fire Eagle. We set up mailing list for that.

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