Items tagged with googlemaps

Link // 07.20.2008 // 7:08 AM // 0 CommentsHeatMap API

A nice-looking API for adding heat maps as overlays on a Google map. Visit site »

Link // 06.12.2008 // 5:49 PM // 3 CommentsGoogle Maps’ Street View now available in 37 more cities…

…and Seattle, the 12th biggest metro in the USA and the area that houses America’s second-largest population of Google employees, still isn’t one of them. WTF?! Visit site »

Link // 02.12.2008 // 10:55 AM // 3 CommentsGoogle Maps Street View: 645 New Hampshire, Lawrence, KS

Lawrence, KS — my old stomping grounds — gets Google Maps’ street view before Seattle. This is an outrage. Visit site »

Link // 07.18.2007 // 9:59 PM // 7 CommentsWalk Score - How walkable is your house?

This is a very cool little Google maps mashup. Walk Score calculates the walkability of an address by locating nearby stores, restaurants, schools, parks, etc. and then tallies the whole thing up into an out-of-100 score.

My Lawrence house: 22 out of 100. My Seattle house: 77 out of 100.

w00t. Visit site »

Link // 07.18.2007 // 6:45 PM // 0 CommentsPhone Number Geolocator

This is awesome. From an area code and prefix (i.e. 206-545-xxxx), returns a geo-location. Seems to even work really well with cell phone numbers. Badass. Visit site »

Link // 12.01.2006 // 5:30 AM // 0 CommentsPut a marker on Google Earth the old-fashioned way.

Classic (Warning: geek joke ahead). Visit site »