Category Archives: mashup

Create and Share Awesome Maps Quickly with Mapbox

There’s no question that we are all data collectors, many of us data hoarders but what to do with all that awesome data? Well, naturally the geographer in me wants to create a map. Indeed there’s plenty of choices out … Continue reading

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Fast, Simple Map Mashup Creation and Social Sharing with TargetMap

Here’s details of a cool, new, open community mashup creation service from TargetMaps – the @TargetMap crew sent us a tip off this morning via Twitter. The service enables rapid creation of online map mashups, facilitates simple sharing and community … Continue reading

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Cool Stuff – Apps for America 2: The Data.gov Challenge

An interest contest for you mashup artists… Apps for America is a special contest being put on his year to celebrate the release of Data.gov! Fome the organizers… We’re doing it alongside Google, O’Reilly Media, and TechWeb and the winners … Continue reading

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Michael Jackson NeverLand Ranch up for Charity Auction via WhatsYourPlace google mashup

Neverland Ranch is being auctioned off on Whatyourplace with the proceeeds being donated to charity – the German Red Cross. Recall this mashup allows users to bid on real estate (Virtually) — whatsyourplace.com is a Google Maps Mashup that allows … Continue reading

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New Mapping Mashup and Interactive Travel Guide – iGuide

Here’s details of a very cool travel mashup – iGuide. iGuide, www.iguide.travel, is a recently introduced travel site which combines mapping and geographic data with much of the best travel information from across the web. iGuide, the interactive travel guide, … Continue reading

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Obama Meter – A Dashboard of the Economy maps stimulus spending, job creation and more

Trust the gang at FortiusOne to come up with this very slick solution enabling users to visualize and map the effects of the Obama Stimulus spending in an effort to kick start the economy – enter The ObamaMeter – A … Continue reading

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Green Developers and Mashup artists invited to come play!

From the GreenThing (a Green WOM Initiative) the team is inviting “Green” developers to come and play with their news developer tools – an API and clever ways to create mashups. Many tech professionals are very HOT into Green apps … Continue reading

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Your Own Google Travel Map

Now you can share with your website visitors all the places you’ve visited in the world. Using this app from 29travels, simply select all the countries, pick a color, then grab the code and embed in your website… very nice.. … Continue reading

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Sharing your Nokia Sports Tracker trips with the Nseries Widget

I’ve been a long-time fan and user of Nokia Sports Tracker. Infact, I’ve considered it to be one of the best location-aware mobile apps anywhere… hands-down! To date the app has been fun, simple to use, and useful, however, it … Continue reading

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ski and snowboard guide for iPhone – snocator

Another cool location-aware app for iPhone… aren’t all the coolest apps location sensitive?? This one from Denver-based useful networks, Users can also check snow reports, mountain cams and weather forecasts to get up-to-date information on their favorite resorts as they … Continue reading

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Meet Me In the Middle Thanks to Google Reverse Geocoding

According to the Google geo dev blog this week, Google now is making reverse geocoding available to developers. This is pretty huge for developers… in a nutshell this enables developers to add functionality that generates an address from a lat/long … Continue reading

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Zoocasa Mashes up real estate listings with neighborhood data in Canada

Another nice effort at a Googlemaps real estate mashup from Zoocasa. A nice UI and very appealing, and I really like the way you can simply search by neighborhood – quite useful! I found the initial search mechanism to be … Continue reading

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