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Tag: mashups
Our Dumb World
Click on the Onion pins scattered around the globe to reveal mind-expanding factoids about the lesser, conquerable nations of the Earth. Come back each week to learn more about how little you know.
the onion now as mashup, or kml layer. up to you.
Swiss Air Traffic
similar to FBOWeb, using google maps
Transit stops on Garmin
One of the biggest benefits of transit agencies making their raw schedule data publicly available, as TriMet and others have done, is that riders are free to do interesting things with the information that the agency itself might not have thought of or have taken the time to do themselves. Case in point: Brett Warden in Portland is using TriMet’s GTFS feed to create a POI (points of interest) file for his dashboard-mounted GPS.
nice open geodata example
Manhattan Elsewhere

compares manhattan 1:1 with other cities
Rotten Neighbor
a mashup with potential
San Diego Wildfires
2 kml files, geotagged flickr photos, a featureserver service (fed by KML) 3 WMS layers of satellite images, and an openstreetmap overlay
Song History
:: 1.FM :: i totally forgot about mashups (the music style), and these guys set me straight
Mashing KML and GeoRSS in 3D on the Web
I took his GeoRSS feed and a KML file from KPBS showing activity around the Fires and added each of them as a distinct layer to the VE Map Control. Because Virtual Earth runs In a web browser its easy to build applications that link to and interact with other web pages and take advantage of the myriad of web development tools that are out there, while not having to sacrifice on visualization options for your geo data
haha. one of these days i will get used to ms touting kml
NYT Maps
nyt on their use of google maps and google calendar. if they continue like this maybe they won’t go extinct as predicted in epic 2014 🙂