BMUG - Google Maps Hacks

(and perhaps a bit more)

Aug 24, 2006

Resources (Index of tutorial-outline.txt)
Topics:
  1. Introduction to Google Maps
  2. Some Features
  3. Some Ways to Look up a location
  4. More on locations
  5. Sharing Google Maps
  6. Inside Google Maps URLS
  7. Generate Links from your spreadsheet or other program
  8. Keeping up with Google Maps
  9. Maps on your page
  10. The coolest thing may be that you can embed maps on your own page.
  11. The Hello World of Google Maps
  12. Hello world!
  13. Hello world locally
  14. Capturing Clicks
  15. Calculating Distance
  16. Calculating Distance redux
  17. Create a route without road constraints
  18. The World of Mashups
  19. Changing the Rules: The virtuous way
  20. Is to open your data for remixing
  21. To paraphrase Juvenal, who can live in our modern age and not write aggregators?
  22. You can lock down your data...heck, you can lock down your wireless network
  23. But why?
  24. Open by Default is a philosophy
  25. A long quote that I will read outloud for you...
  26. Chicago Crime by Adrian Holovaty
  27. Area 51 err, Groom Lake, in 1959
  28. Area 51 in 2003
  29. http://gmaps.tommangan.us/groom_lake.html
  30. Simulate the Effects of a Nuclear Explosion
  31. Housingmaps.com - the first mash up?
  32. Roughly the size of...
  33. Take Black Rock City home with you
  34. Clustering Waypoints
  35. Clustering Pictures
  36. Will the kids barf?
  37. More fun...
  39. Annotating Space and Telling Stories
  40. Waypoint, Pictures, Tracklogs
  41. further...
  42. What do we leave behind?
  43. We leave visible middens and invisible traces
  44. What's this Locative Media thing?
  45. Hemingway...
  46. When I click on Paris I want to see...
  47. Michigan?
  48. "When I click on Paris I want to launch my spell checker"
  49. Maps tell stories.
  50. But whose stories?
  51. Big Bend
  52. Big Bend
  53. Big Bend
  54. Big Bend
  55. Maps Tell Stories
  56. Maps Tell Stories
  57. We live in a Phenomenal Universe
  58. And actual molecules...
  59. Maps create reality
  60. What is the Oregon Trail?
  61. Other people's maps tell other people's stories
  62. And maps have real power
  63. Who controls the description controls the world.
  64. Psychogeography
  65. More Psychogeography - Back to Paris
  66. Quantitative Psychogeography - Objectivity in the service of the subjective
  67. Geospatially enabled Narrative - Subjectivity run amuck
  68. Annotating Space
  69. Annotating Space
  70. Florence Ave
  71. More on annotating space space
  72. Animating space
  73. Locative is a case not a place
  74. What can you with your GPS data?
  75. Geotag your photos from a GPS tracklog
  76. Pretty pictures
  77. Conclusions
  78. Coda as prelude
  79. Accelerometers are the way forward Chris Dodo