Thinking maps

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com>
Date: July 17, 2005 11:37:00 PM EDT
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Subject: Thinking maps



Thinking maps

By Joshua Glenn  |  July 17, 2005

LATE LAST MONTH, the Internet search company Google announced it
would share its cutting-edge Google Maps technology with ''outside
Web developers." That is to say, hackers, who've been using the
online cartographic service to create unauthorized interactive maps
of everything from cheap nationwide gas prices to local street crime
ever since Google's speedy, responsive service was launched in
February.

Google had originally envisioned people using its European-style
streetmaps and creepily close-up satellite images to size up
neighborhoods where an apartment was for rent, for example, or to
check out a vacation spot's proximity to the beach. But civic-minded
computer jockeys had other visions. Matching the latitude and
longitude points from Google Maps (which provides virtual push-pin
markers for physical addresses typed into a search field; see marker
on map at right) with locations from police blotters, real estate
listings, and other databases, they've created free searchable maps
of crime in Chicago, sexual predators in Florida, and apartments for
rent in New York, to cite just three examples.

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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/07/17/ 
thinking_maps/






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