SFO to OAK
San Francisco to 40.7481, -119.2644 ** local search [thing] near [Location]

art near gerlach, NV * Sharing Google Maps ** 'Link to this Page' ** http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=sebastopol,+CA&ie=UTF8&om=1 * Inside Google Maps URLS ** city state http://maps.google.com/maps?q=sebastopol,+CA ** zip code http://maps.google.com/maps?q=94305 ** airport code http://maps.google.com/maps?q=SFO ** directions http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=SFO+to+LAX&ie=UTF8&om=1 ** with ll and spn http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=SFO+to+LAX&ie=UTF8&om=1&ll=35.84263,-120.393025&spn=2.448955,4.449463
spn and search spn (sspn) are in degrees, longitude first. Think lat, long versus x,y. * Generate Links from your spreadsheet or other program ** If you have a list of addresses you can turn those into a list of links to Google Maps! ** http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=+3601+Lyon+St.+San+Francisco,+CA&ie=UTF8&ll=37.804461,-122.448206&spn=0.016344,0.046821&om=1 ** or...http://maps.google.com/maps?q=+3601+Lyon+St.+San+Francisco,+CA * Keeping up with Google Maps ** Del.icio.us! ** http://del.icio.us/tag/gmaps ** tags and folksonomies * Maps on your page * The coolest thing may be that you can embed maps on your own page. ** Workable TOS ** (compare that to Mapquest's original Link Free program) * The Hello World of Google Maps ** Get a developers key at http://www.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html ** Hello world here we come! * Hello world! * Hello world locally ** The 'server' doesn't have to be an external address...localhost works. * Capturing Clicks ** http://mappinghacks.com/projects/gmaps/click.html * Calculating Distance ** http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/ ** http://walkjogrun.net/ * Calculating Distance redux ** http://mappinghacks.com/projects/gmaps/lines.html * Create a route without road constraints ** http://mappinghacks.com/projects/gmaps/clicktoroute.html * The World of Mashups ** Open APIs + Open Data Formats = Web 2.0 Heaven ** Don't need a clean API http://housingmaps.com * Changing the Rules: The virtuous way

** What could be better than a web filled with formatted XML data on publicly accessible servers? ** Pre Google Maps data pain ** Google changed the rules: The easiest way to put a map on your page.... = Is to open your data for remixing = To paraphrase Juvenal, who can live in our modern age and not write aggregators? = You can lock down your data...heck, you can lock down your wireless network = But why? = Open by Default is a philosophy * A long quote that I will read outloud for you... ** So why share your code? Why share your data? ** Sharing and openness make the world a richer and more interesting place to live in.

Doing so might not make as much you as money - but it might make you more, and the world will be more fun if you share.

"Companies are a lot like kindergartners, and sometimes you just have to smile and say "That is nice, Billy, and would you like to share the crayons now?

I'm interested in the geospatial component of what people do...

And everything that people do has a geospatial, or Locative, component. Everything we do, think or experience we do, think or experience somewhere. That Locative piece may seem unimportant, but who is to say?

Consider that our primary source on the lives of many people, including in historical time, is their Middens. That is, their garbage dumps. Who are we to belittle the locative component of even the trivial? * What do we leave behind? Google Images

You know we are different breeds though, right? You guys talk 'location', I talk 'GIS' - is that fair to say?

"After reading A Moveable Feast several times, I'd formed the impression that Paris was huge, and Hemingway was always making these great hikes across town to drink or eat or look at pictures. Now that I've walked between the same places as he did, "I'm impressed at how small and walkable Paris truly is." (a visitor to Paris, retracing Hemingway's steps) Everything was very accessable."

 07:10 < shekhar> there's some really amazing stuff happening
 07:10 < shekhar> we've done gps tracks in many slums
 07:10 < shekhar> and discovered the holes in the municipal development plans
 07:10 < shekhar> by which the builders are profiteering

"The study of the specific effects of the geographical environment, conciously organized or not, on the emotions and behavior of individuals."

*** >Discussion *** Pretty picture? *** Tools? *** Ideas? *** Back to the home page? * What can you with your GPS data? ** Real-time navigation (gpsdrive) ** Plot it on a basemap ** Use it to georeference other stuff ** Give your Great-Great[...]-Grandfather a GPS * Geotag your photos from a GPS tracklog ** Time: The universal foreign key ** Adjust for bias in clock difference, time zone ** Linear interpolation between tracklog points * Pretty pictures ** Animation Static Moving ** Dan Brickley says:

"The RDF data model [is] a handy mechanism for mixing independently created data vocabularies... Unlike vanilla XML, RDF vocabularies can be freely mixed together in data without prior agreement. So you often see ad-hoc combinations of Dublin Core, RSS1, MusicBrainz, RDF-calendar, FOAF, Wordnet, thesaurus, Geo-info etc etc..."