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White Paper Fortunately, the Google Maps API offers a way to make this happen automatically. Balancing what to show and what not to show on a Google Map can be tricky. On one hand, for performance reasons, one wants to restrict the overlays displayed on the... [10 Oct 2007]
Google Maps Hacks: Find the Best Gasoline Prices
White Paper Maps for Mac users provided by Google Maps. Another low-cost-gasoline solution is GasWatch by Adrian Gonzales, which is available from http://www.widgetgallery.com/view.php? widget=36500. This is a widget that will run under Konfabulator for... [10 Oct 2007]
Google Maps gets real-time traffic data
News The traffic information is integrated with Google Maps and is available in more than 30 cities across the pond, including Chicago, Dallas, New York and San Francisco. Google's maps show only traffic flow, however, and not specific incidents. [01 Mar 2007]
Google Maps Hacks: Add a Google Map to Your Web Site
White Paper Are there reasons not to use Google Maps? Google Maps are great, and Google has a history and reputation of being the good guys, but it is a profit-making business and its goals might not be the user's goals. [10 Oct 2007]
Google Maps Hacks: Share Pictures With Your Community
White Paper Now, using Flickr, Google Maps, and a little piece of glue called Flickrcity (http://anti-mega.com/flickrcity/), anyone can do this easily. Putting geolocated photos on a map is something geo-hackers have worked on for a long time. [10 Oct 2007]
PHP Hacks: Create Custom Google Maps
White Paper But the author always wanted something more interactive - and with the advent of Google Maps and its extensible API, he was able to use a combination of PHP and JavaScript to detail his hike up the mountain, using satellite imagery and interactive... [17 Oct 2007]
Adding Panoramas to Google Maps Using Ajax
White Paper A popular application that uses Ajax technology is Google Maps. The goal of this project is to develop an extension of Google Maps which includes viewing 360-degree ground-based panorama images. This project is an implementation of an Ajax web... [03 Jul 2007]
Using C1Ribbon as an Interface to Google Maps
White Paper This paper discusses the use of the C1Ribbon and C1StatusBar components in a Windows Forms application that provides an interface to Google Maps. The 2007 v1.5 release of ComponentOne Studio Enterprise introduced a new product, Ribbon for .NET... [05 Jul 2007]
Integrating Maps Into Your Java Web Application With Google Maps and Ajax
White Paper Two relatively recent technologies, Google Maps and Ajax (Asynchronous javascript and xml), can make life considerably easier in this area. This paper explains how one can easily implement dynamic interactive maps on the Java web application, using... [31 Oct 2006]
The Meta Google Maps "Hack"
White Paper Since the advent of Google Maps, a slew of developers have built systems which use information from other sources to produce composite maps showing the locations of various items. These systems are commonly referred to as "Google Maps Hacks" due to... [20 Apr 2006]
Open source rival takes on Google Maps
News Volunteer "citizen cartographers" are aiming to take on the likes of Google Maps and Ordnance Survey by creating a free open source wiki-style map of the planet. OSM was started two years ago by Steve Coast because of the legal and technical... [13 Nov 2006]
Ordnance Survey mash-up takes on Google Maps
News The Ordnance Survey (OS) is opening up some of its secret code to allow software developers to create Google Maps-style mash-ups. The JavaScript application programming interface (API) will give individuals access to the OS' mapping data and allow... [02 Nov 2006]
Google - Googling Further: Images, News, Maps, and More
White Paper Normally, when a person runs a Google search, he or she is asking Google to look for the search terms on any Web page it's tracked. But the Web can be sliced in many ways, and Google has created a bunch of alternative systems for helping one find... [10 Oct 2007]
Google Maps Hacks: Map Local Weather Conditions
White Paper Like so many other things, the Internet has made it possible for weather reporting to be distributed among many people on a ground-up basis, rather than centralized in a top-down fashion, as it traditionally has been. [10 Oct 2007]
Google and Yahoo! unleash mapping code
News Google's Maps API is a free toolkit that developers can embed in their own web pages with JavaScript. Google will include the Google logo on the map, a link back to Google Maps, and may show ads in the future on the maps," the company said in a... [01 Jul 2005]
