geodata

Metacarta or Similar API QC Plugin

This idea being that one could enter in a string to an object that would extract latitude and longitude info, and then return a structure that has the detected location name(s) and coordinates.

http://www.metacarta.com/

It would be interesting to be able to have some objects in QC to faciliate the kind of data visualization that this fellow is doing in processing:

http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/just-landed-processing-twitter-metaca...

This really seems like a natural thing for Quartz Composer.