Wanna bet some idiot will claim that terrrrrrrrrrrists are going to use indoors street view of the white house to plot their next move?
Tag: googlemaps
Daytona Directions
on the occasion of the nascar idiocy going on tonight
Hurricane updates on Maps
pushing some new data for crisis response. should have links to nyc maps in a bit.
Satellite prints
cutups from maps satellite imagery.
Google Maps Icons
Map Icons Collection is a set of more than 900 free icons to use as placemarks for your POI (Point of Interests) locations on your maps.
finally a decent set of icons to replace the vile default ones in mymaps.
google-maps-el
The google-maps Emacs extension allows to display Google Maps directly inside Emacs. It fully implements the Google Static Maps API and the Google Maps Geocoding API.
Desktop maps blue dot
my location on maps. finally!
Freeway Ramps
No application is really drawing nice ramps yet, but the smarts you can see in Google’s maps show that the data has the potential to support some nice visuals. Having played with doing this sort of thing in an application for work I can tell you that it’s no easy task. The data may be there, but it’s not straightforward. Someday I would imagine that the shapefiles for these highways will be in 3d and it’ll be possible to do a fully dimensioned render and style a 2d view appropriately. Then these things will really look nice. Well before then someone’s going to come out with something that looks really nice in all but the corner cases, though. The programmers working on this stuff are too clever not to.
basically, live maps and yahoo maps are incompetent. funnily, no mention of mapquest, but then their cartography always sucked particularly bad.
Maps clustering complaints
umm.. where to begin? the underlying assumption in this article that there are somehow 100s of underpaid data entry clerks who maintain the “database” is mind boggling. most people don’t understand automation beyond programming their VCR, if that.
Google Maps Kenya
here’s hoping that bandwidth is plentiful
Maps of the African continent have been around for centuries. Largely created by explorers, historians and cartographers from Western parts of the world, ancient African maps mainly depict trade routes, emerging trade centers and navigational points. Over time, maps increasingly became more detailed for the inland areas of Africa, in many cases as administrative instruments for former colonial powers. These maps still form the basis for many of the currently available paper maps for large parts of Africa.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 