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Make Your Own Google Maps Mashups
Make Your Own Google Maps Mashups
04/10/2005 09:42 PMBig hat tip to Metafilter for this pointer to Engadget and their
instructions to make your own Google Maps mashups. You'll have to do
some stuff in Firefox and you'll...
and their instructions to make your own
Google Maps mashups
and their instructions to make your own
Google Maps mashups
04/11/2005 03:49 AMMake An Annotated Interactive Google Map .. HOWTO on creating
annotated Google maps .. (Engadget via
Populicious)
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Census data over Google Maps
Census data over Google Maps
06/22/2005 02:11 AMThe linked page is getting hammered pretty hard at the moment. So
If you have a hard time loading the page give it a hour or two but
visit the site and check out what has been created. I can think of
some awesome applications having census data embedded in Google Map
searches. [www.gcensus.com]
gCensus - Census Data Over Google Maps
gCensus - Census Data Over Google Maps
06/22/2005 02:44 AMgCensus - Census Data Over Google Maps .. www.gcensus.com/index.php ..
gCensus
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Overlaying transit system maps onto
Google Maps
Overlaying transit system maps onto
Google Maps
06/05/2005 11:21 PMI, like others, was blown away to see how Paul Rademacher combined
data from Craigslist and Google Maps to display an innovative view of
Craigslist housing listings within a Google Map. Now someone's hacked
together a way to view the...
How to Make Money Selling Your Body to
Science While You're Still Alive
How to Make Money Selling Your Body to
Science While You're Still Alive
01/23/2004 02:20 PMNew Canoe University offers a one day course on ways to make money as
a human test subject in medical trials, or selling your body after you
die. This reminded me of a Loompanics book from a while back called
Sell Yourself to Science that
Jim Hogshire wrote, which got me to thinking about how Jim
was in this
incredible article from Harpers about extracting opium from
poppies.
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(Thanks, Kevin!)Google Adds Satellite Images To Google
Maps
Google Adds Satellite Images To Google
Maps
04/06/2005 07:28 AMWebProNews Apr 6 2005 11:42AM GMT
Google Adds Satellite Imagery to
maps.google.com
Google Adds Satellite Imagery to
maps.google.com
04/05/2005 12:20 PM"Google has added satellite imagery to maps.google.com. It's really
great data. I've been hunting for property and use
terraserver.microsoft.com for satellite imagery, but google's
sattelite images are of better resolution, plus you get the killer
UI."
Google Blog On Google Maps Phenomenon
Google Blog On Google Maps Phenomenon
04/17/2005 01:27 AMAddict3d.org Apr 17 2005 5:12AM GMT
"Google Maps"
"Google Maps"
04/05/2005 09:50 PMGoogle maps put to use
Google maps put to use
06/17/2005 02:18 PMUsatoday.com - Thu Jun 9, 08:28 pm GMT
Google Maps and XSL
Google Maps and XSL
03/14/2005 05:27 PMI'll probably write more on this later, but it seems that
Google Maps is using XSL. I spotted it
loading the following pages while sniffing its activity with LiveHTTPHeaders:
This is in addition to the (now expected) XMLHttpRequest
stuff. There even appears to be some of Microsoft's weird VML, although
as I'm on a Mac I don't have access to IE/Windows to see what it's doing with it.
The bulk of the Google Maps JavaScript appears to be
hidden away in maps.1.js, which
becomes a lot more readable if you feed it through PrettyPrinter.de
As for Google Maps itself, it's an amazing piece of work
but it's a shame they didn't follow map.search.ch's lead in degrading
gracefully to a static version for unsupported browsers.
If anyone has any further insights in to how it all works,
please post them in a comment.
Google Maps
Google Maps
03/14/2005 05:53 PMGoogle Maps Features include (according to Google): Easy navigation--
Users can drag the map to view the adjacent parts of a map. Search
results from Google Local-- To find a wifi hot spot in a local area,
users may type [wifi hot spot] and their local zip code to see wifi
locations on the map. They will see phone numbers for each location
appearing on the right side of the page. When users click on locations
on the map, they will also find address information. Single search
box-- Users can type search terms into a single search box under the
Maps tab for local search results and driving directions. For example,
typing [great sushi in New York] will display great sushi restaurants
located in New York. Typing [Manhattan to Brooklyn] shows directions
from Manhattan to Brooklyn. Turn-by-turn directions-- Users may type
in an address and Google Maps plots a route, displaying it visually on
the map itself, together with step-by-step directions for getting
there (or back from there). When users click on one of these steps,
they will see a magnified view of the area mentioned in the
directions. Keyboard shortcuts-- Users can use the arrow keys to pan
left, right, up and down; pan wider with page up, page down, home and
end keys; and zoom in and out with the (+) and (-) keys....
Google Maps surprise
Google Maps surprise
04/05/2005 09:23 AMGo to Google Maps. Select an address. Have it plot directions to
another address. Click on "Satellite." Omigod. [Technorati tags:
google maps]...
Google Maps, Now with 30% More Awesome
Google Maps, Now with 30% More Awesome
04/05/2005 11:52 AMGoogle Maps has now added an option to display your map with
sattelite data.
If you ever wondered what Gadgetopia World Headquarters looks like
from space, now's your chance. Of
course, the defenses are masked from sattelites, and most of the
facility is subterreanean, but you get the idea.
Via Kottke.
Google Satellite Maps
Google Satellite Maps
04/05/2005 01:09 AMGoogle's n
ew satellite view on their maps is kinda freaky (I can see my car
in the driveway), but it's fun to revisit my past.
I grew up across the street from the small city
lake seen here, which used to be in the middle of a bunch of
orange groves and then a golf course, all of which are long gone and
replaced by houses. My high
school. After college, I lived near
this restaurant, which has the best thai food in LA. I
lived here when I first moved to San Francisco.
Google Maps and Accountability
Google Maps and Accountability
04/07/2005 05:50 PM
The ease of use of Google Maps' new satellite imagery
integration is going to have some interesting implications.
My childhood, seen by Google Maps
My childhood, seen by Google Maps
04/06/2005 09:00 PM
(My childhood,
seen by Google Maps, originally uploaded by mathowie)
Something I never anticipated in a million years was finding out
that my good friend Kathryn Yu
recognized names and places in this shot, then over IM we realized we
attended the exact same elementary school (she, 8 years after me, and
it's just off to the right edge of the screenshot). Turns out that she
grew up less than a mile away from my house, and though I've known
Kathryn for 3 years, it never came up until today. Unbelievable.
Hey! You Got Your Google Maps in My
Craigslist!
Hey! You Got Your Google Maps in My
Craigslist!
04/09/2005 08:50 PMHow cool is THIS? Some very clever person has just done a mashup of
Google Maps and Craigslist rental listings. You can check it out at
http://www.paulrademacher.com/housing/ . You can...
Google Maps Sightseeing
Google Maps Sightseeing
04/08/2005 01:09 AMshreddies.org/gmaps
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Google Maps Updated
Google Maps Updated
06/24/2005 07:22 PMAccording to Google Sightseeing, Google
Maps has made some significant improvements.
Today Google quietly updated its map service to add high-resolution
aerial photography for much more of the globe than the previous
limited coverage of North America. New additions include Scotland, Iceland, Kuwait and many, many more.
Cool! Now even more sights to see from a really-high bird's eye
view! If only I could quit my job and become a full-time Google Maps
tourist.
EMAX Alive, Inc. Announces new Ad
Campaign with Google.com
EMAX Alive, Inc. Announces new Ad
Campaign with Google.com
04/08/2005 10:04 AMBusiness Wire UK Apr 8 2005 12:32PM GMT
Google Adds Satellite Maps
Google Adds Satellite Maps
04/05/2005 12:10 PMComputer Reseller News Apr 5 2005 3:19PM GMT
Google Maps now spans the globe
Google Maps now spans the globe
06/22/2005 02:29 AMGOOGLE Zooms In On You From Space, Maps
GOOGLE Zooms In On You From Space, Maps
04/07/2005 10:40 AMsatellite maps could unnerve some people .. About Google's Satelite
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Satellite images on maps.google.com
Satellite images on maps.google.com
04/05/2005 11:50 AM In case you missed it, Google has
added satellite images to
maps.google.com. They've got
coverage for the entire US and low resolution images for the Caribbean
and South America.
Google Maps and user experience
Google Maps and user experience
04/06/2005 12:06 PMEarlier this week, Google integrated their recently acquired Keyhole technology into Google
Maps, allowing the user to toggle between the abstract map view and a satellite view. The addition was pre
tty big news, and I was pretty excited
when I saw this feature, as were many others. Matt
Haughey even did a Maps/Flickr mashup in creating a memory map of his
childhood stomping grounds; others followed suit.
The ability to view satellite images online has been around for
years in the form of Microsoft's Terraserver (and also on
a mapping site that I can't locate right now...I swear Mapquest let
you switch back and forth between the two views, but I can't find it),
so this really isn't anything new. Terraserver lets you zoom in/out,
move around the map, and view other versions of the map (they have a
topological version), and I know that many of the people who are so
excited about Google Maps are familar with it. So why is everyone so
excited about it?
Part of it is Google's involvement...they draw a crowd of attention
anytime they do anything these days. But it also has a lot to do with
someone I wrote about a couple of years ago: it's the user experience, stupid:
Robert Morris from IBM argued last year at Etech 2002
that -- and I'm paraphrasing from memory here -- most significant
advances in software are actually advances in user experience, not in
technology. Mosaic was not an advancement in technology over TBL's
original browser. Blogger is a highly-specialized FTP client. IM is
IRC++ (or IRC for Dummies, depending on your POV). The advantages that
these applications offered people were user experience-oriented, not
technology-oriented.
The satellite feature on Google is no exception. They took
something that's been around for years, made it way easier to use
(reposition & zoom maps without reloading, pinpoint addresses and
routes onto the satellite imagery, toggle between sat and road maps,
map size automatically scales to the browser window, etc.), and
suddenly this old thing is much more useful and fun to play around
with. Ajax is the underlying technology (which isn't new either)
for many of the notable Google Maps features, but how Google used it
to make a useful user experience is the real story here.
Google Maps Beta on Labs
Google Maps Beta on Labs
03/14/2005 05:19 PM"Type an address to get a pretty map--then click and drag the map
around."
More On Google, Maps, Mail, and
Microsoft
More On Google, Maps, Mail, and
Microsoft
04/10/2005 09:52 PMWebProNews Apr 11 2005 12:12AM GMT
Google Maps Has Satellite Pics
Google Maps Has Satellite Pics
04/06/2005 09:21 AMNbc11.com - Wed Apr 6, 11:18 am GMT
Google Rolls Out Satellite Maps
Google Rolls Out Satellite Maps
04/07/2005 05:25 AMNPR Apr 7 2005 9:21AM GMT
Google incorporates satellite maps
Google incorporates satellite maps
04/05/2005 02:02 PMglobetechnology.com Apr 5 2005 5:10PM GMT
Weird books for tinkerers and mad
scientists
Weird books for tinkerers and mad
scientists
04/20/2004 12:34 PMI came across an ad for Lindsay's Technical Books in Popular Science.
The ad reads like a classified that would have been in the back of the
magazine fifty years ago: "Secrets! Melt Metal! Machine Shop!
Hydrogen! Old Time Radio! Tesla! Chemistry! Incredible plans, lost
secrets, forgotten how-to, and strange books!" It looks like these
folks have a lot of fun in their basement labs and backyard foundries.
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Google maps give fresh perspective
Google maps give fresh perspective
04/17/2005 04:06 AMSearch engine Google offers users the chance to see satellite photos
of many locations in North America.
Google Feature Incorporates Satellite
Maps
Google Feature Incorporates Satellite
Maps
04/05/2005 09:12 AMABCNEWS.com Apr 5 2005 1:09PM GMT
Google adds satellite images to maps
Google adds satellite images to maps
04/05/2005 12:07 PMNew feature gives people bird's eye view of locations they search for,
as Net giant seeks to outdo rivals.
Images: Google takes a
satellite view
Google Maps and Craigslist Sitting in a
Tree
Google Maps and Craigslist Sitting in a
Tree
04/08/2005 06:04 PM
You got Google Maps in
my Craigslist! This is some incredible RESTfu. This is the future,
folks.
Google Feature Incorporates Satellite
Maps (AP)
Google Feature Incorporates Satellite
Maps (AP)
04/04/2005 11:53 PMAP - Online search engine leader Google has unveiled a new feature
that will enable its users to zoom in on homes and businesses using
satellite images, an advance that may raise privacy concerns as well
as intensify the competitive pressures on its rivals.
Craigslist for-rent ads scraped and
placed on Google Maps
Craigslist for-rent ads scraped and
placed on Google Maps
04/09/2005 07:37 AMCory Doctorow:
This hack on Craigslist and GoogleMaps is amazing: the service places
all the houses/apartments for rent/sale on Craigslist as waypoints on
a Google Map, color-coded by price, with links to the Craigslist ads.
Wow.
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via A Whole Lotta
Nothing)
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