i JUST STARTED PLAYING WITH THIS LAST WEEK. tHIS WILL HELP A TON!!!!

Posted at 11:12 am on Nov 15th, 2005 by kURTROEDEGER

I wanted to do this for penn state; upload your class schedule and it would show you were all the buldings are and how much time it should take to walk to each one, but google maps has a very very low res(or as i say: shitty) of psu campus, so that idea was axed. :(

Posted at 3:02 pm on Nov 15th, 2005 by fucter

I thought this was a great use of Google maps: plotting running routes. You can see other people’s routes, along with length information, water, and bathroom stops.

http://www.favoriterun.com/

Posted at 4:00 pm on Nov 15th, 2005 by Mike Pickering

How is this a hack? Google has an published the map API, and everything on their site is well documented. The maps are designed to be used in this way, so what makes this a hack?

Posted at 7:45 pm on Nov 15th, 2005 by john

It’s a stepping stone to creating your own google maps based project, and I for one am glad to see it. How is any software a hack? Exactly. Hack means to do something, in a creative manner. How is taking some commodity parts and building a power rail and making an AP a hack? Because he took something and made it suit his purposes better. This is not the grandest example of a Google Maps hack (though the GMaps Risk is a good example), this includes source code to get us on our own google maps based solution. If I had this when I worked as a Dell Field Tech, I could have scripted it to take the calls from the website and then give me automatic maps, with the best possible route.

Posted at 10:47 pm on Nov 15th, 2005 by grayskies

As it happens, I’m trying to do something similar with the London Underground. It looks like this guy has taken a similar approach to me in terms of mapping the locations/points

Here is a link to it (in case anyone cares!) http://http://oliverjenkins.com/gu_initialtest.htm

Posted at 4:57 am on Nov 16th, 2005 by Oliver Jenkins

Sorry that link should be http://oliverjenkins.com/gu_initialtest.htm

and as yet it only appears to work in Firefox

Posted at 5:04 am on Nov 16th, 2005 by Oliver JEnkins

The Google Maps community has been working dilligently on a wiki for Google Maps information here:

http://mapki.com/

A lot of the information comes from discoveries made on the Google-Maps-API discussion group here:

http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?lnk=oa

Posted at 8:43 am on Nov 16th, 2005 by ian

Hi,

Very cool implementation. For the interested I’ve just completed the fourth article of a four-part series on Google maps development using their free API, PHP, MySQL, the U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line data, and the Geo::Coder::US Perl package. Here’s the article list:

1. Integrating Google Maps into Your Web Applications
http://www.developer.com/tech/article.php/3528381

2. Retrieving Map Location Coordinates with geocoder.us
http://www.developer.com/tech/article.php/3548171

3. Build Your Own Geocoding Solution with Geo::Coder::US
http://www.developer.com/tech/article.php/3557171

4. Build a Geocoding Web Service
Due to be published on 11/16

Hope this helps!
Jason

Posted at 1:00 pm on Nov 16th, 2005 by Jason

there’s a much easier way. Just use this service
http://www.yourgmap.com/

A non-technical person can build a google map in about five minutes.

Posted at 5:48 pm on Nov 16th, 2005 by ed

yo “fucter”

I was thinking about something similar for the PSU campus. An implementation of the Loop and Link routes and stops, or the other CATA routes (R, V, etc) with schedules etc would be frggin incredible. The satellite image might be terrible but the map data is fine. Don’t give up, I would love if this thing worked.

Posted at 7:02 pm on Nov 16th, 2005 by sampl

there is a project by the athens wireless metropolitan network providing its source code too
at: http://wind.awmn.net

Posted at 5:47 pm on Nov 21st, 2005 by phrozen

My favorite running site http://www.runningahead.com/ just added gmaps as well, you can search to find good running routes and trails in your area. It also has a very powerful running log.

Posted at 4:29 pm on Dec 14th, 2005 by Brian

Actually the link for the database project the athens wireless metropolitan network uses, is http://wind.cube.gr . Its targeting wireless community networks and uses google maps or google earth to display nodes and wireless links.

Posted at 4:29 pm on Apr 17th, 2006 by cirrus

Yeah, good article and idea.
It will be applied into healthy industry…

Posted at 2:15 pm on Jul 11th, 2007 by binish

Solemn article. It make me lost in thoughts.

Posted at 6:43 am on Sep 27th, 2007 by Allison

here is a google hack search inurl:/view/index.shtml
on google,
and it shows almost all webcams

Posted at 5:07 pm on Sep 23rd, 2008 by bob