Comments on: Build a Google Maps service

By: bob

bob — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:07:48 +0000

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

By: Allison

Allison — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:43:06 +0000

Solemn article. It make me lost in thoughts.

By: binish

binish — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:15:34 +0000

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

By: cirrus

cirrus — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 23:29:06 +0000

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.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:29:01 +0000

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.

By: phrozen

phrozen — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 01:47:51 +0000

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

By: sampl

sampl — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:02:44 +0000

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.

By: ed

ed — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 01:48:13 +0000

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.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 21:00:53 +0000

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

By: ian

ian — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:43:52 +0000

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

By: Oliver JEnkins

Oliver JEnkins — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:04:37 +0000

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

and as yet it only appears to work in Firefox

By: Oliver Jenkins

Oliver Jenkins — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:57:34 +0000

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

By: grayskies

grayskies — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 06:47:38 +0000

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.

By: john

john — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 03:45:06 +0000

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?

By: Mike Pickering

Mike Pickering — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 00:00:45 +0000

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/