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Yahoo! Maps Goes Satellite
Yahoo! Maps, Driving Directions, and Traffic: They have satellite imagery this morning.
Published: April 12, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 1000
Wikipedia and Images on Google Maps
Google Maps now integrates with Wikipedia and Panaramio. You can see related Wikipedia articles and images from any spot on the map by clicking the More tab.
Published: May 14, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 954
Google Maps Updated
According to Google Sightseeing, Google Maps has made some significant improvements. Today Google quietly updated its map service to add high-resolution aerial photography for much more of the globe than the previous limited coverage of North America. New additions include Scotland, Iceland, Kuwait and many, many more. Cool! Now even ...
Published: June 22, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 939
Video Game World Maps
Video Game Maps: This guy threads together screencaps to create large images of video game worlds. Super Mario Bros is an obvious one and has been done before, but the GTA San Andreas map must have taken some doing. Via Kottke.
Published: January 25, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 930
Google Maps
Google Maps: This is the smoothest map interface I've ever seen, and it found my house, tucked away in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. View the source on that baby. Someone tells me how it works. Doesn't seem to be Flash, but I didn't have the patience to dig through it ...
Published: February 8, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 913
Google Maps, Now with 30% More Awesome
Google Maps has now added an option to display your map with sattelite data. If you ever wondered what Gadgetopia World Headquarters looks like from space, now's your chance. Of course, the defenses are masked from sattelites, and most of the facility is subterreanean, but you get the idea. Via ...
Published: April 5, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 910
Yahoo! Maps Beta
Yahoo! Maps, Driving Directions, and Traffic: Yahoo! has released a new version of their mapping service. It's done in Flash, which is nice. A bit smoother than the DHTML version over at Google, but no satellite images. If you want directions and you enter a destination address, it pops up ...
Published: November 3, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 892
Google Maps Article
Google tinkerers make data come alive: CNN has an article on what people are doing with Google maps. Tracking sexual predators in Florida. Guiding travelers to the cheapest gas nationwide. Pinpointing $1,500 studio apartments for rent in Manhattan. Geeks, tinkerers and innovators are crashing the Google party, having discovered how ...
Published: June 9, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 890
Customizable Routes in Google Maps
One of the things about Google Maps that I never cared for was that the route it gives you when you ask directions isn t always the route I want to go. So I d usually use it along with a couple of other resources to plan a trip. I just discovered ...
Published: August 11, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 861
Google Maps IP Lookup
AJAX Powered IP Location Lookup: Type in an IP and get a Google Map of where it's located. I tried it with one IP I knew off the top of my head, and it seemed accurate. Someone else try it too, and report on the results. Via Scott Small.
Published: January 30, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 854
Trigger v5
Trigger: Joe covered Trigger in a Friday diversion a few months ago. I got hooked on it and played it until my fingers bled. The only drawback to the game was that the same old maps got boring. Well, version 5 has been released, and there are scads of new ...
Published: December 25, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 848
Google Maps Pedometer
Gmaps Pedometer: Apps like this are a constant reminder that I suck. They're devastating to my self-esteem. I could ramble on about how cool this is, but let me just say that by opening up an API to your data, you open the whole world to it. And -- even ...
Published: July 6, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 811
Katrina's Wrath and Google Maps
Those geniuses at Google are at it again, now providing satellite photos of the areas of New Orleans, LA, that were hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina. If you do a Google Maps search for New Orleans, LA, you'll get the map of the city with an extra red button, labeled ...
Published: September 4, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 806
Google Map Directory
Google GlobeTrotting: Home: Great site full of Google Maps of famous places, like Bill Gates's house and an Atlanta airport with a half dozen planes coming for a landing or just taking off when the picture was taken (look for the shadows). Why does it feel like Google Maps with ...
Published: April 13, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 788
Flash-Enabled Map
CNN.com Specials: Maps/Troop Movement: Neat use of Flash here.
Published: April 9, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 779
Brewster Jennings
Brewster Jennings Protects America: The Google Map Hunt Game: This game makes me feel good to be alive. I played it on the "easy" and "short" settings, and still just barely completed it before the time came up. You have to (1) know your trivia, and (2) be really proficient ...
Published: October 30, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 778
Coming Soon: Guided Content Maps
I was reading a little e-book by Seth Godin the other day called "Everyone's an Expert" which turned out to be a big promo for his new venture: Squidoo (it's not live yet -- so there's not much to look at). In this little book (it's quite good), Godin brings ...
Published: October 28, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 775
Online Mapping
In Parts Unknown: Ever wonder how they keep online maps so current? An exercise in the obvious: they employ people to drive around with GPS units in their cars and write down addresses: "Privately held Navigation Technologies is one of the world's biggest digital mapmakers and expects revenue of $200 ...
Published: July 11, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 759
I'm Not a Cop, I Swear
EULA for a web service excluding law enforcement officials?: Here's an interesting post on one of Spolsky's forums: I built a google maps website that maps out all the skateboard parks in North America. [...] My fear is that if I offer this service, cops will use the website to ...
Published: March 2, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 752
Out for a Little Swim
Google Maps give you handy directions from New York to Dublin. Step #23 is a little tricky, though. Via Kottke.
Published: March 29, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 751
Jacktracker
Wayfaring Map - Jacktracker: A Google maps hack to show exactly where secret agent Jack Bauer is at every moment of his latest 24 hour adventure.
Published: February 6, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 742
New MT Plugins
Movable Type Plugin directory update: The list of Movable Type plugins just keeps getting better and better. Here's a big list of new ones, including a few for Google Maps integration, del.icio.us integration, and more. A good plugin API is an amazing thing, sometimes.
Published: July 8, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 697
Widening the Canal
Panamanians Vote Overwhelmingly to Expand Canal: This is going to be interesting to watch. Panama voted yesterday to embark on the biggest project in the history of that country: widening the canal. The overhaul, to begin next year, will double the canal's capacity by adding a third set of locks ...
Published: October 23, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 694
Storm Report Map
Here's another great use of Google Maps -- Storm Report Map. Our local meteorologist pointed this out last night. It overlays a Google Map with weather report data after storms strike. A quick look at June 20th shows that Gadgetopia World Headquarters was right in the middle of a whole ...
Published: June 22, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 694
Google Mars
Google Mars This map of Mars, published by Percival Lowell in 1895, was the result of many years spent carefully studying the Red Planet through his telescope. Now you can do the same through your web browser. In collaboration with NASA researchers at Arizona State University, we've created some of ...
Published: March 13, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 689
Google Web Toolkit
GWT is Open-Sourced: This is cool, but I had no idea the GWT was that complicated. The Google Web Toolkit has been open-sourced. The toolkit was developed internally and can be used to create products like GMail and Google Maps. It allows you to program in Java and let the ...
Published: December 13, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 684
The Tarquin Engine
The Tarquin Engine: This is pretty interesting. The Tarquin Engine is a tool for the creation and delivery of zooming infinite canvas webcomics. In it's current form it exists as a series of Action Script routines within a Macromedia Flash FLA file. It also you to build cartoons like this ...
Published: July 23, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 678
Filterblogs
I was browsing through Google Video last night (that's where the Duron post came from), and I got to thinking that there's so much good stuff in there, but there's a bunch of crap too. And none of it is really organized beyond the general search that comes with it. ...
Published: January 7, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 674
Google Local Business Ads
Google local business ads (Beta): This is new today. Whenever a user enters a query that matches advertisers' chosen keywords and business information, up to three local business ads may appear as "Sponsored Links" below the user's Google Local search results. The ads display in two parts: a highlighted listing ...
Published: March 31, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 672
Off The Map...
... And Not In The Guidebook is the new book being put out by those responsible for googlesightseeing.com. Actually it's one book with two different titles for different markets US and UK from different publishers. We've got almost 100 of our favourite sights from the last year, licensed ...
Published: August 21, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 671
New Hybrid From Google
Hybrid map that is. Maybe this isn't such a new thing, but I just noticed today that Google Maps has a new Hybrid mode. In Hybrid mode, all of the labeled items from the map view are superimposed over the satellite image. Slashdot has a post on it from two ...
Published: July 24, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 670
Aflax
AFLAX: Flash developers are striking back against Ajax with Aflax: "Asynchronous Flash and XML." They're slinging heavy FUD. AJAX, especially at the level of Google Maps, is very difficult to get right. If you've got a large team and plenty of dollars, it can be done -- then you have ...
Published: July 11, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 664
Web Patterns
Patterns in Interaction Design: Here's a good list of a lot of the UI patterns and site types you see around the Net. You know, things like flyout menus, site maps, advanced search, etc. For each, it shows an example and discusses when and where you'd want to use them. ...
Published: December 24, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 660
Content Publishing Models
When you get neck deep into a content management implementation, you can lose sight of the actual publishing mechanism-- how the content gets from your system to the end user's browser. No matter how sophisticated your CMS is, at some point, a user enters a URL and some content comes ...
Published: June 30, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 658
Happy Birthday to Google!
Google turns 9 today Happy Birthday! (it just so happens to be my birthday as well, but that s slightly less notable.) We write a lot about Google here (as do lots of others), and I think it s a rare day that I don t touch something associated with Google. But, I m ...
Published: September 27, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 655
What will $90,000,000 get you?
A dandy 40 acre estate in The Hamptons (click here for a Google Maps satellite image of the property.) The price tag on this estate sets an new record for residential real estate (wouldn't you love to be the sales guy on that deal!) A New York Post article ...
Published: June 21, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 652
Conquer Club
Conquer Club: If you like the boardgame Risk, this site is a gas. It's a turn-based, online implementation of Risk (sh-h-h-h -- they never refer to it by name). You play a turn every 24 hours or so. I'm playing one game right now, and I play a turn every ...
Published: March 6, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 652
BBC Backstage
BBC Backstage :: How to get started: The BBC is doing something pretty cool. They're allowing people to create new applications using their content specifically their RSS feeds. You can participate in BBC Backstage by either building an application or web-based prototype that uses BBC content or, if you ...
Published: May 27, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 651
Saving Money By Not Turning Left
You know those annoying waits sitting in the left-turn lane waiting for an opening in traffic? Someone at UPS has been thinking about it, and how that affects the bottom line. The company employs what it calls a “package flow” software program, which maps out routes for every one of ...
Published: December 16, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 650
Half-Life 2 is in the Wild
Thieves steal playable version of Half-Life 2: Valve's nightmare gets worse enough code was stolen to compile the game and run it. "When hackers broke into the computing system of Valve Software, they stole more than just the source code to Half-Life 2. They also stole enough game maps ...
Published: October 8, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 650
Consequences for Email and Usenet Threats
Former Global Crossing employee convicted of threatening executives on Internet: This guy was convicted today and faces 30 years in prison. He got fired from now-defunct company Global Crossing, and he wasn't happy about it. The official charge was "using a Web site to threaten" someone. Sutcliffe, 42, directed threats ...
Published: December 5, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 649
Ski Dubai
What's a self-respecting Arab ski bum (or ski bunny) to do when baba takes the keys to the Gulfstream away, and he's stuck in Dubai for the weekend? He goes skiing in Dubai, of course! I hadn't heard about this place until a friend forwarded a message with photos about ...
Published: September 6, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 640
Yahoo! User Interface Library
Yahoo! UI Library: Yahoo somewhat rules for this. A Free BSD license makes it even yummier. The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, HTML and AJAX. The UI Library Utilities ...
Published: February 14, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 639
Content: The Afterthought
The Cure for Content-Delay Syndrome: ALA harps on something I was talking about years ago: In the vast majority of website projects that I have managed during my ten years in the industry, content is often the last thing to be considered (and almost always the last thing to ...
Published: June 8, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 639
Chris McKinstry's Suicide
Off Topic - So what does a web suicide note look like?: I missed this when it actually happened two years ago. Chris McKinstry posted a suicide note to his own blog and to the Joel on Software off-topic discussion forum (since closed). He had taken a bunch of pills, ...
Published: January 20, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 637
Email Reveals Who's Really in Charge
E-mail reveals real leaders: Network analysis maps companies' informal structure.: Fascinating and so, so true. The real people you to look to for leadership are the people in your Sent Items folder. "The researchers have developed a way to use e-mail exchanges to build a map of the structure of ...
Published: October 10, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 636
XML in Office 2003
Jon Udell: Exploring Office 2003: Here are some screencaps of the XML capabilities of Word and Excel in Office 2003. The mind reels at the possibilities. Here's something a little more in-depth on the topic from MSDN: Importing XML Maps, XML Lists, and Dynamic Chart Sources in Excel 2003: "Excel ...
Published: June 29, 2003  Geek Popularity Factor: 627
Windows Live Local and Bird's Eye View
Windows Live Local: I've been hearing a lot about Windows Live Local, but never knew quite what it was. Turns out it's a lot like Google Maps, but with the twist of "Bird's Eye View" images, which are at a 45-degree angle, not directly overhead. This link will take you ...
Published: January 18, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 618
Nanaimo: A Google Earth Testbed
How Google Earth Ate Our Town: Interesting story about how Nanaimo, British Columbia has become a huge testbed for Google Earth. The city is giving Google reams of data, and Google is exposing that in Google Earth. The city s planning department has, over the past five years, steadily fed Google ...
Published: March 13, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 618
Don't Mess with the Standard Icons
Here's another little usability rant -- The image here shows the file operations buttons from Zend Studio -- a PHP IDE. The button on the left is a folder with a green plus sign, then a folder with an arrow up, and then a folder with an arrow down. These ...
Published: August 10, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 603
Getting Around IE's PNG Issues
PNG is an awesome image format, primarily useful for its ability to support 8-bit transparency (that is, an alpha channel where there's a continuum from opaque to transparent, instead of the simple on/off transparency of GIF). So what's been holding you back from using it? IE for Windows, mostly, which ...
Published: July 22, 2004  Geek Popularity Factor: 596
C'etait un Rendezvous
In 1976, a Frenchman made a film called "C'etait un Rendezvous" consisting solely of some guy driving a Ferrari really, really fast through the streets of Paris. The idea is that the guy wanted to meet his girlfriend (hence the title) and the film ends with him parking the car ...
Published: February 22, 2006  Geek Popularity Factor: 584
PureEdit
I spent some time this morning looking at PureEdit. It bills itself as a CMS, which is a classification I don t know that I can agree with completely. For the record, I only watched a couple of screencasts and browsed through some of the code. I don t know if it ...
Published: February 16, 2008  Geek Popularity Factor: 572
The GM Report: Milford Proving Grounds
GM s Milford Proving Grounds is a weird place. It s a massive automotive testing facility two miles by three miles; 4,000 acres. Contained in it is a driving enthusiasts dream come true, and I imagine an automobile s nightmare. There s about every conceivable method and facility with which to ...
Published: October 5, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 566
Venture Capital on Sand Hill Road
I was in the Bay Area couple of months ago for FM s Conversational Marketing Summit, and I needed to go visit a client down in Mountain View (no, not Google, though they were right down the street). I went south on the 101, but that was boring. I was looking ...
Published: November 26, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 543
What Makes a Content Management System?
I got to thinking the other day: exactly when do you have a content management system? We ve all built apps that manage content, but when do you graduate from a relational database with an admin section (RDBWAAS) to the lofty and deserved title of content management system? (Incidentally, I ...
Published: June 30, 2007  Geek Popularity Factor: 431
Interview with Josh Clark
Admit it: whenever some group like 37 Signals or Six Apart comes out with a new software product, you secretly think, "I could of done that." How many of us developers thing we could build something just as good if we only put in the time? I do. Yes, I ...
Published: March 2, 2005  Geek Popularity Factor: 400
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