Maps Mash Up

As the various offerings by mapping API providers continue to mature, new opportunities have emerged for would-be advertisers and map mashup developers to tap into the ability to include advertising directly on a map. In addition to providing a wealth of information and spatial context, mapping...  

Next month, I'll be heading to the US to travel across the country and to talk to ordinary people about the issues that are important to them in the presidential election. I did similar trips for the BBC in 2000 (that's me behind the floppy hair) and 2004, and I often credit the BBC's Steve...  

We get excited around here whenever a new application offers an Application Programming Interface (API) for 3rd parties to develop against. Oh, the possibilities! Sometimes, though, it just doesn't pan out and our dreams are dashed against the craggy rocks of reality. Mashups are hard and just...  

WHY would the spooks at Google Maps clone an area of Holland? Are all Dutch either edam or gouda?  

Daylife has announced the winners of the 2008 DayPI Developer Challenge. Their DayPI is a unique API for building news-based applications. We wrote about the DayPI Developer Challenge last month. The challenge offered a US $3,500 first prize and two US $750 runner-up prizes. First prize was...  

The Google Maps API is now integrated with the Google AJAX API loader, which creates a common namespace for loading and using multiple Google AJAX APIs. This framework allows you to use the optional google.maps.* namespace for all classes, methods and properties you currently use in the Google...  

The beta map mashes up Google Maps with crime statistics for each borough, using coloured overlays to indicate varying levels of criminal activity - from ...  

Perfect sample to report at the Google Maps API Developer (I saw this too). There's no possibility for me to change anything there...  

I think the link here is another mashup which i though was slightly cumbersome but yet a different experience for the user - http://www.taggalaxy.de/ This uses Papervision 3D to display images that are sourced ...  

Consumer mapping tools are driving demand for geospatial visualisation tools in the enterprise, BI vendors claim.  

Fans of the hit show Weeds, and fans of marijuana for that matter, as well as Cheech and Chong fans will love this news. Marijuana is now legal in California as long as the sellers are licensed to provide the drug to those with a prescription. So it’s no surprise that people want to make the...  

Map mashups continue to be extremely popular, as evidenced by the high percentage of mapping APIs in our web service directory and map mashups in our mashup directory. Whether you’re just getting started with map mashups, or you’re a veteran map mashup developer, there are several tools out there...  

From where do the most Beijing Summer Olympic medal winners hail? Despite Michael Phelps being well on his way to breaking Mark Spitz’s record of seven gold medals at a single Games, it’s not North America that has the most gold medals so far. According to the Google Maps’ Summer Games 2008, as...  

It does most all of this with the help of Google Maps. It's one of the smarter mashups we've seen, calculating the square footage of your roof based on ...  

TheMovieMap is a Google Maps mash-up of movie sets and filming locations. The location of each film can be viewed in Google Maps satellite view.