Hacking Google Maps
Lots of little hacks are popping up for Google’s new mapping service.
Zmarties has a bookmarklet to show lattitude and longtitude, displaying it where Google Maps normally displays its “permalink”.
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This page has bookmarklets that move the map along your driving directions route, effectively animating your path, one that puts a little person walking around on the map, automatic panning of the map, and loading an XML file into the page.
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This one gives you a link to the Weather Underground page for that location so you can see the weather where you’re going.
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Show the location of a blog based on its GeoURL.
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Show’s satellite imagery of that location (via Blogoscoped).
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Any others? I’ll add them.
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Comment by Francis Ocoma | February 14, 2005
Trackbacks are an inexact science. Sometimes they just don’t work.
Comment by Nathan Weinberg | February 14, 2005
Here’s one that overlays local weather station information from weatherbug & weather underground on a map, along with web cams.
Comment by weathermaps | June 30, 2005
www.mapulator.com
I’ve found another traceroute/Google Maps mashup. This tool allows you to traceroute by IP address or host name to see the path the packets take. You can run the trace from their server or from your PC. It’s pretty slick, and has some settings you can tweak for doing the traceroute. It also can also do “whois” queries when you click on one of the hops (to find out that hop’s IP). And if you just want to know where any particular computer/server/IP is you can also type in the IP or host name in their ping tool and find out if the host is up, where it is, and get the “whois” record. Seems like a very useful site/tool.
Comment by m kat | January 4, 2006