What do you get when you take a great city, the Google Maps API, and creative individuals with coding skills? You get 28 fantastic Toronto “Google Maps Mashups”. The Toronto Google Maps Mashups Compendium provides the bst mashups from the city with a variety of food & drink, transit, housing, arts & entertainment, education, sports & leisure, and photography oriented Google Maps mashups for Toronto – see http://blogto.com/city/2007/02/toronto_google_maps_mashups_compendium/ – got a favorite mashup?? Drop me line describing a cool new mashup you’ve stumbled over
Archives for June 7, 2007
McCartney, music, and mapping standards.. does it matter?
Interesting analogy as I watch a TV interview with Paul McCartney… apparently the music legend and song writer doesn’t read music! So, think about how many in the traditional GIS space think of mashups and mashers and the lack of attention paid to open standards, map projections, principles of cartography, yadayada… does it really matter? If Paul can become an icon in the music industry without learning how, or caring how to read music does it matter if map mashers don’t learn about geography, cartography, GIS, etc… hmmm