Maps Mash Up

This past week 12 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 27 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Bandsintown, BBC Music and Billboard. The most often used APIs this week are Google Maps, Google Maps Flash and Twitter. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Music (7 APIs, 8 mashups), Mapping (4 APIs, 10 mashups) and Search (2 APIs, 2 mashups).  

SAS hq... - Google Earth Community Mail Online lies: Base has "never before appeared on maps for security reasons." Except on Google Earth since 2005 Google Maps The location of the Hereford SAS base in Google Street View. Google Street View shows 'secret' SAS base in major security breach | Mail Online...  

Android 2.1 users get local map wallpaperGoogle has released version 4.1 of Google Maps for Android, adding a constantly-updated map wallpaper, tweaking the way search results are displayed and adding a new Latitude widget for tracking your friends.  

#updates Google's just pushed out a 4.1 update for Google Maps on Android that includes a Latitude home screen widget listing nearby friends, and allowing you to switch between user accounts to change Buzz and starred locations. Yada, yada—the big change for real Maps users is that after searching for a term and clicking on a result, you can swipe the screen left and right to switch between...  

Geo-bombing is one of the techniques that can be employed to enable more effective dissemination of your YouTube videos campaign through Google mapping applications like Google Maps and Google Earth. Now you can watch your geotagged videos inside Google Earth and Google Maps. Any geo-tagged YouTube video will show up when the Youtube layer of Google Earth/Maps is turned on.  

An early influential Google Maps mashup now gives users the chance to change mapping imagery. The GMaps Pedometer (our GMaps Pedometer mashup profile) has six different tile options, the most recent of which is OpenStreetMap, the free editable map of the world.  

Given the increasing popularity of mobile devices such as the iPhone and Android devices (both of which include full browsers), it should come as no surprise that developers have begun to leverage the various APIs out there to provide mobile mashups that can be implemented without targeting a specific platform or SDK.  

We bike path-mapped between NYC's Met Meseum and the Chelsea Art Museum While the Google Trike bike pedals its way through the 360 miles of Boulder's bike paths in an experiment to add Streetview for bike paths, the search giant has begun step 1 of bicycling integration into their excellent Google Maps. Until we have Streetview to explore nature down the paths less traveled or go deeper into Central Park than the cut-through roads, we can at...  

It didn't take me long to actually touch mobile and last week while traveling, I forgot another super useful tool for travel that I have to mention. That tool is Google Maps Navigation. Last year Google rolled out a turn by turn navigation component as an add on to their existing Google Maps product. I have historically been a user of both Google Maps and Mapquest although over time I have slowly migrated to Google Maps. When driving...  

Job Link Directory. Does Google give you headaches? Too much non related information? This mashup gives you job sites by region. Date Updated: 2010-03-13 Developer: zacusk Tags: directory, jobs, mapping, recruiting APIs: Google Maps, Google Maps Flash, Google Static Maps  

Sooner or later, every popular web service with an API spawns a Google Maps mashup. FourWhere, which launches today, combines data from the increasingly popular location-based social network Foursquare with a Google Maps-based interface. Thanks to this, you can now easily find Foursquare venues around your current location or a location you plan to visit. The site was developed by social media analytics service Sysomos. Sponsor The FourWhere...  

DJ's mashup various genre for music blogUT The Daily TexanIn addition to the mashups Reidell and Brink post weekly on their blog, The Hood Internet has produced four mixtapes. The mixtapes consist of 27 to 34 ...  

Network for routes, travels, bikes, cars, and more. Integrated with social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google Maps. Date Updated: 2010-02-22 Tags: mapping, social, sports APIs: AddThis Menu, Facebook, GeoNames, Get Satisfaction, Google AdSense, Google Maps, Google Maps Data  

There are only a few weeks left until the iPad's April 3 launch date, and Apple has just started reaching out to developers to say that they're now accepting applications that were developed especially for the much anticipated device. We've included the Email below. The key takeaway: If you're looking to have your app available at launch, you need to submit it by March 27, at which point Apple's team will let you know if your application is...  

When I first read about Hunch's Twitter Predictor game, I was pretty skeptical. The game asks you to put in your Twitter user name and based on who you follow and who you are followed by, it predicts how you will answer questions on Hunch. Then I used it. It's awesome. Well, pretty awesome. Out of 35 questions I answer, Hunch correctly predicted by my answer to 32 of them and was only wrong with 3, 91% correct. And these aren't just "yes" or...