Thanks to Ryan Eby for tipping me to this. Go try it out.
Whatever you think of them, they do keep delivering.
I wonder if people will ask for stack-level photos of our libraries?
Google Maps, gmaps, Google, street-level photos

Posted May 29, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: gmaps, google, google maps, street-level photos. One Comment.

This post started with Ryan sending me this link demonstrating a KML overlay of county borders of his bifurcated state in Google Maps.
Then I found this Roundup of Google’s Geo Developer Day (btw, I so wanted to be at Where 2.0) with tales of the new geocoding feature of the Google Maps API, more details [...]

Posted June 16, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Technology. Tags: geocoding, geographic information systems, geolocation, geotagging, gis, google earth, google maps, kml, sketchup, where 2.0, where20. 97 Comments.

Via the ProgrammableWeb: Seattle911.com. It’s another mashup with Google Maps, but who knew anybody could get 911 data in real time? Sure, it’s only for Seattle, and only their fire/EMS servers (no police), but technology wise, it’s cool. Kudos to Seattle, I guess.
What’s my reticence? I don’t know if I should have this data…and [...]

Posted November 3, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: 911, 911 calls, 911 log, ambulance chaser, emergency, emergency calls, ems, fire department, firefighters, google, google maps, real-time, realtime, seattle, seattle911. Be the first one.

I’m a big fan of the WP Geo plugin, but I want more.
My biggest complaint is that I want to insert coordinates using Google Maps or MultiMap URLs, rather than insert them in the modified story editor. So I wrote a bit of code that reads through the URLs in a post, finds the “maps.google” [...]

Posted September 26, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: beta, blog, blog gis, blogmap, blogmaps, geo, geocoding, geolocation, geotagging, gis, google maps, lat, latitude and longitude, lon, map, mapping, maps, metadata, multimap, plugin, plugins, wordpress, wordpress plugin, wp plugin. 8 Comments.

Tom Mangan has put the Google Maps API to interesting use with his space shuttle tracking page. Also worth checking out: his Blackbird Spotting site and TLable, a little extension to make pinning/annotating maps even better.
blackbird, google maps, map api, space, space shuttle, spacecraft, sr-71, tom mangan

Posted July 31, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Planes, Trains, & Automobiles, Technology. Tags: blackbird, google maps, map api, space, space shuttle, spacecraft, sr-71, tom mangan. 41 Comments.

We don’t need to hack Google Maps anymore. Now that Google has released a public maps API, we can make more reliable map-dependent apps (which will now have better browser compatibility, thank you). Within a few minutes of signing up for a maps API key I had put together the following of the Nevada Test [...]

Posted July 1, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: api, google maps, google maps api, map api, mapping, maps api, nevada test site, yahoo, yahoo maps. 96 Comments.

People are going wild over Google Maps, but I honestly didn’t get too excited about it until I saw Glen Murphy’s Movin Gmap project. It’s a Python script that reads location data from a connected GPS and pans the Gmap to follow. Upon seeing this hack of Gmaps, I went looking for more. Hack a [...]

Posted February 15, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: gmap, google, google maps, gps, hack, keyhole. 814 Comments.