Google Maps

[larryhead]

The Google maps API is now available: http://www.google.com/apis/maps/!
Also, here are some nifty Google Maps mashups (made before the API came out):

http://www.housingmaps.com/ - layers Craigslist housing ads onto Google maps

http://www.chicagocrime.org/ - layers different Chicago crimes from auto theft to bribery onto Google Maps

http://supergreg.hopto.org/google-yahoo/ - layers Yahoo live street traffic maps onto Google Maps

[larryhead]

http://www.holovaty.com/blog/archive/2005/04/19/0216 - CTA ("the L") map layered on Google Maps (it's a firefox extension)

[larryhead]

http://www.geobloggers.com/ - users can upload their photos to Flickr with longitude/latitude/comments tags, and then use this site to overlay the photos onto Google Map... kinda neat way to see people's pics from all around the city.


From their site:

"What is geoblggers?

geobloggers is a site that's built upon two great technologys. Google Maps takes care of the mapping side and Flickr takes care of the image hosting, scaling, and so on. geobloggers mushes those two together.

The idea is that you go out into the (urban) wild armed with a camera and possibly a GPS unit. You take a bunch of photos and upload them to flickr. Then you add "tags" which lets geobloggers (and other sites) know where the photo was taken, using "geotagged", "geo:lat=xxx.xxxx" and "geo:lon=xxx.xxxx". Flickr handles the management of the photos, geobloggers does the rest.

There are many benefits for geotagging, mainly that it's fun. Another good reason is that you also get to see who's taken photos at the places you've taken photos, same scene, different eye.

Finially, as phones start to ship with GPS more and more, people (and by people I mean, normal everyday people, not us lot who are already into GPS systems) will want more geo based information. Armed with a GPS device or GPS phone, you can wonder around the streets or countryside and see what photos have been taken nearby. Soon geobloggers will allow you to comment on photos and leave geotagged notes (or mini blog entries) as well as handle tagged del.icio.us entries. Soon we'll be walking around in a rich soup of geotagged data."

[annie]

you know aj
even when we were all living together i never understood your computer stuff. and i don't know why i even looked in this section when i don't know any of it... but i did cuz i saw you wrote here.

don't you love me? :-D

[larryhead]

you know aj
even when we were all living together i never understood your computer stuff. and i don't know why i even looked in this section when i don't know any of it... but i did cuz i saw you wrote here.

don't you love me? :-D

Heheh.. you know I do annie. :p



I guess I should probably post a link to Google Maps in this thread someplace. http://maps.google.com/ There.
It's a lot like MapQuest.. but better. :)

[annie]

oh wow! this is awesome.. you can see a real life map too......

i'll wave next time i'm outside and maybe you'll catch me on the map? :wave: