1 month ago
deusx : Angry Norwegians in scuba gear chase after Google Street View car Boing Boing - This is hella epic.
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Simon Willison : Cartographer.js - Cartographer.js. “Thematic mapping for Google Maps”—which means an easy way of adding heat maps (aka chloropleths), pie charts and point clusters as a layer over a Google map.
nelson : Cartographer.js - Library for overlaying data on Google Maps
philgyford : Cartographer.js – thematic mapping for Google Maps - Javascript library for mapping data nicely onto Google Maps. Area-scaled circles, choropleth, etc. (via Simon Willison)
# copy9 month ago
nelson : My SF to PDX roadtrip - Experiment with Google Maps
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deusx : Car Navigation Map in Canvas - "Taking the code made by Jacob on his Mario Kart demo I thought why not give it a try using the tiles of Yahoo or Google maps to create the same effect as in the GPS systems"
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Andy Baio : Flickr Boundaries, tool to explore Flickr's shapefiles - read Tom Taylor's entry for more information
philgyford : Boundaries - Completely awesome thing from Tom Taylor. Shows the shapes of areas based on how people have tagged their geo-located Flickr photos.
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20 month ago
Eric Meyer : Pound the pavement - Finally! Just make sure this gets into the iPhone map application double-time, m'kay?
philgyford : Google LatLong: Pound the pavement - Google Maps can now give you walking directions. A quick couple of comparisons in London showed it doesn't know about as many pedestrian-only alleys etc as WalkIt.com. Yet. (via City of Sound)
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20 month ago
philgyford : Google Maps API Tutorial - Lots of examples for how to do things with Google Maps. (via Tim Brayshaw)
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nelson : Underground runways - North Korea builds runways in tunnels
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philgyford : Freaky People Productions » Blog Archive » Google Maps causes Safari 1.3.2 to crash - If you use the Google Maps API your Javascript may have recently started crashing Safari 1.3.2. This is how to fix it.
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26 month ago
Simon Willison : Google Maps Clusterer - Google Maps Clusterer. I’ve looked at a few clustering libraries for Google Maps, but this one seems to have the nicest API.
nelson : Google maps clusterer - Clever library for displaying thousands of markers on a Google map efficiently
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27 month ago
Simon Willison : Encoded Polyline Algorithm Format - Encoded Polyline Algorithm Format. Google Maps does some pretty crazy bit mangling to create compressed versions of lat/long pairs.
nelson : Polyline encoding - Complex 5 bit ascii encoding for geographic features
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30 month ago
Ethan Marcotte : Get Lat Lon: Find the latitude and longitude of a point on a map. - Someone please clone a few hundred Simon Willisons. I have a feeling we’ll need their giant brains when the robots attack. ∞
Simon Willison : Get Lat Lon - Get Lat Lon. I finally got fed up of hunting around for simple latitude/longitude tools when messing around with mapping APIs, so I built my own with a memorable URL. I plan to add new features as and when I need them.
philgyford : Get Lat Lon - find the latitude and longitude of a point on a map - Wonderfully simple Google Maps tool by Simon Willison for doing what it says. Very handy for me for Pepys' Diary.
Richard Rutter : Get Lat Lon - Find the latitude and longitude (and local time) of a point on a map..
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32 month ago
nelson : Fast food maps - Amazing Google API app that plots locations of fast food chains
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32 month ago
Rod Begbie : Real World Racer: A Google Maps Racing Game - Best use of Google Maps yet? [via] #
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factoryjoe : UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis - The Google Map Image Cutter is an application designed to take any image or digital photo and cut it into tiles which are displayed on a Google Map. Using this tool, large images can be published on the web in a format that allows the us
philgyford : The Google Maps Image Cutter (UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis) - "An application designed to take any image or digital photo and cut it into tiles which are displayed on a Google Map."
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34 month ago
jimray : Caught on Google Maps Street View - Including such hits as "Stanford co-eds sunbathing" and "coming out of a strip club"
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34 month ago
Rod Begbie : Google Street View - 242 Powell St, San Francisco, CA 94102 - Good to know -- the hotel we'll be staying at in San Francisco next week is right above a Lush store. #
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34 month ago
jimray : Google maps introduces Street View - Yeah, it's an idea that Microsoft and Amazon have done, but holy CRAP, Google's implementation rocks!
Rod Begbie : Google LatLong: Introducing... Street View! - Cool new street-level 360º views on Google Maps. Only a handful of cities so far. [via] #
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37 month ago
nelson : Twittermap - hot little hack shows twitters on a map. You can update your location, too
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WillPate : 32 Toronto Google Maps Mashups - huzzah!
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41 month ago
Rod Begbie : WiiSeeker - Mashing up the "leaked" (and possibly true) information on how many Wiis each branch of Target will be selling on launch day with Google Maps. I might try the Everett Target instead of the Somerville one -- they're looking to be getting almost three time [via] #
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41 month ago
philgyford : Google Maps - Treo - Official Google Maps app for the Treo. Works a treat. All it needs now is walking directions...
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