Mapping Hacks

How would you like to create your own geo-annotations and lay them on top of Google
Maps? Do I hear ‘Yes sir, please sir?’ Jon Udell wrote about his
Five minute walking tour of Keene, NY. He also created a Flash Animation that
demonstrates the power of showing context with the big view before zooming in (which I was trying to do with my
Boom Zoom tool).

And now
engadget has a great
tutorial on adding your own annotations to Google Maps.

Jon’s post Annotating
The Planet gets it right.

When I finished making the interactive version of my neighborhood tour, along with a screencast, it was clear that Google Maps is every bit as revolutionary as my first instincts told me. Not because Google invented a new geospatial engine or compiled better data. They didn’t. But simply — and yet profoundly — because Google Maps is a framework we can all use to annotate the physical world.

I don’t think that Google Maps is necesarily the best way to solve these problems, but damn! It makes things possible that were a pain before. Platforms are good.

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