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.
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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.