A google maps upgrade called street view has just come out. First impressions are quite flash although it may not be that useful, try visiting Frank Gehrys ICA and click on the street view tab. Only a few American cities are covered at the moment but the short list of covered cities will hopefully increase soon.
But maybe more important eventually will be mapplets, which are sort of mini mashups that can go on your mymaps page. Now this is very interesting and already you can combine georss feeds here so mymaps is just starting to become a place where geopositioned information can be aggregated and reorganised almost on the fly!
I think soon some pretty good things will come out of it, although I’m really waiting for reader and google earth to read geo rss directly. I’ve been geolocating posts in this blog for sometime now but not outputting a georss feed, so it’s time I went away and sorted that out.
Street Views
A google maps upgrade called street view has just come out. First impressions are quite flash although it may not be that useful, try visiting Frank Gehrys ICA and click on the street view tab. Only a few American cities are covered at the moment but the short list of covered cities will hopefully increase soon.
But maybe more important eventually will be mapplets, which are sort of mini mashups that can go on your mymaps page. Now this is very interesting and already you can combine georss feeds here so mymaps is just starting to become a place where geopositioned information can be aggregated and reorganised almost on the fly!
I think soon some pretty good things will come out of it, although I’m really waiting for reader and google earth to read geo rss directly. I’ve been geolocating posts in this blog for sometime now but not outputting a georss feed, so it’s time I went away and sorted that out.