more on Thinking maps

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joehall () gmail com>
Date: July 18, 2005 4:36:46 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Re: [IP] Thinking maps
Reply-To: joehall () pobox com


My favorite so far is the Google Maps pedometer:

http://www.sueandpaul.com/gmapPedometer/

I use this to plan out my running and to send walking maps to people
(although you do have to zoom out of the New Jersey map and zoom into
wherever you live).  This was pointed out to me by Tim O'Reilly on his
[O'Reilly Radar] blog and there's now even a [Google Maps Mania] blog.

[O'Reilly Radar]: http://radar.oreilly.com/
[Google Maps Mania]: http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/

On 7/18/05, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:

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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
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> Thinking maps
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> By Joshua Glenn  |  July 17, 2005
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> 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.
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> 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/
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