Mapping Hacks

As reported by Business Week and seen on #mapserver:

Online search engine leader Google has unveiled a new feature that will enable
its users to zoom in on homes and businesses using satellite images, an advance
that may raise privacy concerns as well as intensify the competitive pressures
on its rivals…. This marks the first time since the deal […]

ORA conference organizer and professional schmoozer Nat Torkington
recently posted an insightful blog entry on O’Reilly Net proclaiming 2005
as the Year of Local
Mobile Search. However, his article reads as a litany about why 2005
won’t be the year of mobile search.
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In their continuing quest to have something to say about everything on the web,
Google has a phone book service. If you enter a phone number it will often
return listing information, along with an address.

One could refer to this as YACK, Yet Another Category Killer. Google seems
to be good at these. A slightly […]

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 […]

Joshua Schachter’s GeoURL, one of the
original webpage geo-mapping sites, fell into spam and disuse about a year ago
(and was sadly only given brief mention in the book), but it’s now being given
new life by Ask Bjorn Hanson of CPAN fame. The website reports that its 2.0
launch will be “Real Soon Now”. It should be interesting […]