Mapping Hacks

Our friend Mikel Maron has hacked up code to parse GeoRSS in Google Maps.
See his notes on an extension.
This can be quite useful for quickly building maps,
like Node.London,
and promotes an interoperable geospatial web based on a common data format.

With GeoRSS standardization [http://georss.org] in the works,
its important to get the big map players on […]

Simon St. Laurent, our editor, just sent a note suggesting we might want to
use our site to announce our new book Google Maps Hacks.

What a good idea…it is rather too easy to finish writing and then to be done
with that! But that doesn’t let you our loyal reader (hi mom!) know about what we’ve […]

Friends and supporters of openstreetmap, the grassroots collaborative GPS mapmaking effort in Europe and worldwide, may be interested to read this excellent email that Steve Coast sent to the discussion list earlier today.
The geospatial web boom is driving a lot of idle-handed free software enthusiasts like Rich, Schuyler and I to need sources of free, […]