Here’s a very handy document for mashup developers. The doc from Pamela Fox of Geo API Team describes in details exactly how to create a mapplet. From the tutorial… Google Mapplets allow developers to create Google Gadgets that can be loaded by Google Maps users onto the main “shared” map along with other Mapplets, enabling the Google Maps user to easily create “mashups of mashups”. They’re a great way to reach a large audience of users, so most maps developers should consider creating Mapplet versions of their Maps API mashups. With this conversion guide, you should be able to convert your Maps API site into a Mapplet (in 60 minutes or less!). Grab the doc at
Archives for June 10, 2007
Google Street View fallout keeps coming from nose pickers, protesters etc…
wow, the fallout from Google Street Side maps just keep on coming. This time the Denver Post has a piece reminding readers to smile as they might be on “Google camera” – think candid camera the author notes. The fallout comes from people being caught on film picking their nose, protesting at an abortion clinic, showing their thong, or ??? Should be interesting to see where this one goes although I don’t suspect it will disappear any time soon. % Cities have been mapped at the street level so far (work in progress) and no doubt more will be in the pipes – or will there be more? Until then the image editors tasked with blurring out people caught with “their pants down” etc… will be pretty busy – perhaps an application that can identify faces in imagery then automatically provides a pixelation algorithm could be quite useful. Recall Google street view has started with the following cities: San Francisco Bay area, New York, Las Vegas and Miami. On a side note, the 360 degree panoramas come to street view via technology provided by immersive media – see http://immersivemedia.com/ – this technology uses a way cool system of cameras mounted in a circular device that grabbed imagery from all around while it moves down the road – the company will be exhibiting at ESRI UC next week in San Diego booth #717
visited states mashup
Thanks to Peter for a tip on this cool app that shows loads of potential… visited states let you create a map that shows what elese??? States I’ve visited.. cool! Below is my visited states map (red shows states where I’ve been). Be sure to check out the developer’s website for pointers to tons of cool mashup projects – see http://douweosinga.com/projects
create your own visited states map
or check out these Google Hacks.
Below is my Countries Visited map!
create your own visited countries map
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