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December 05, 2005Hey, A Yahoo Maps Mash Up! For Food Finding!
I talk about Google Maps so much that it's nice to talk about Yahoo Maps for once. There's a really nice one, a food finder, available at http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/yahoo_maps/application.html. Couldn't get it to work in Opera, worked fine in Firefox. This...
Continue reading "Hey, A Yahoo Maps Mash Up! For Food Finding!" » November 02, 2005Yahoo Releases Heapin' Helpin' of Map APIs
One of the nice folks at Yahoo dropped me an e-mail about a whole flock of new APIs being released for Yahoo Maps. You can read about them at the Yahoo Web Services 'blog (http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/) or get the documentation at...
Continue reading "Yahoo Releases Heapin' Helpin' of Map APIs" » October 29, 2005Use Excel Template to Plot Points on a Yahoo Map
Hat tip to Lifehacker for the pointer to Jeffrey McManus' tool, Yahoo! MapMaker for Microsoft Excel. It's an Excel template which you can download for free at http://www.well.com/user/jeffreyp/mapmaker/. The template is supposed to allow you to put information into a...
Continue reading "Use Excel Template to Plot Points on a Yahoo Map" » October 18, 2005A Couple More Offerings From Zip Code Map Guy
Maps.huge.info, which brought you zip codes laid out on Google Maps, now has two more tools which you can check out at http://maps.huge.info/. The first one allows you to enter in a zip code and get a county boundary map...
Continue reading "A Couple More Offerings From Zip Code Map Guy" » October 16, 2005A Quick Couple of Google Map Mashups
As long as we're talking about Google Maps mash ups, lemme mention a couple more. First there's the MashMap, at http://www.mashmap.com/. It allows you to pick a city and then get a map of the movie theaters in that city...
September 25, 2005Quick Google Maps / Zip Code Tool
Ther'es a useful tool at http://maps.huge.info/; enter a zip code and you'll get a refreshed page and an outlined map of the zip code for which you're searching. You can zoom in on it a big and still have the...
September 21, 2005Connect Wikipedia Articles to Meatspace with Placeopedia
More data mashup fun. Placeopedia connects Wikipedia articles to their respective locations on a Google Map. And though the map on the front page of http://www.placeopedia.com/ is of the UK, there are actually linked items from all over the world....
Continue reading "Connect Wikipedia Articles to Meatspace with Placeopedia" » September 11, 2005Google Maps: Digging a Hole to China (or Wherever)
This is very silly. Go to http://grad.icmc.usp.br/~cipriani/bighole.php?lang=en , wander around the Google Map there, and pick a place you want to dig. The map will refresh to show you where you'd end up if you managed to dig a hole...
Continue reading "Google Maps: Digging a Hole to China (or Wherever)" » Web Site Just for Google Earth Hacks
There's an entire Web site devoted to updates and information on hacks for Google Earth. It's available at http://www.googleearthhacks.com/ . Information here includes updates to Google Earth the program, data updates, and news on an online war game that uses...
August 21, 2005Amazon Goes to Ground in Online Map Battle
Not content to show you an address from x feet up in the air, Amazon is offering street-level views of business addresses. That's the good news. The bad news is that you can only get the views from a limited...
Continue reading "Amazon Goes to Ground in Online Map Battle" » August 13, 2005See Where Your Site Visitors Are Coming From With gVisit
Want to know where your site visitors are in meatspace? (Meatspace: The "real world", where people live, as opposed to online space where they everybody drifts around reading blogs and playing Furious George.) gVisit can tell you, with a Google...
Continue reading "See Where Your Site Visitors Are Coming From With gVisit" » August 11, 2005Google Maps and Virtual Earth, Mashed and Flashed
Flash Earth ( http://www.flashearth.com ) takes information from Google Maps and MSN's Virtual Earth, and mooshes them together in one flash- based interface. You start out with a map of the Earth. You can drag the map around and there's...
Continue reading "Google Maps and Virtual Earth, Mashed and Flashed" » August 07, 2005Google Maps and Virtual Earth Side by Side
Get your comparisons on. Over at http://www.jonasson.org/maps/?ll=37.328664113811776,-122.02712059020996 you can get MSN's Virtual Earth and Google Maps side by side. looks like Google Maps defaults to the hybrid view....
Continue reading "Google Maps and Virtual Earth Side by Side" » August 03, 2005MSN Offers a Virtual Earth
MSN's Virtual Earth is now out of beta. You can read their 'blog post about it at http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/2005/07/25/443118.aspx and see the service itself at http://virtualearth.msn.com . You can search by keyword or you can start by plugging in an address....
July 11, 2005Map Hackin' Goodness
Internet Cool Guy Nathan Torkington has a roundup of nice map hacks at http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/07/where_20_a_coll.html. ... aaand this article launches the new Internet-Tools-Mapping category, which I expect to very heavily populate in the coming days....
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