Category Posts for'mash-up'
Goggles- Google Maps Flight Simulator
Warning- don't click the start button until you have selected a location or you'll be sat there for ages waiting while nothing happens.
Goggles is another Web toy- a simple mash up of Google maps plus a 3D aircraft using Flash. Using the cursor keys you can climb or dive and bank, all the time scrolling around the location. If you dive too low, you'll crash and burn. You are equally limited in how high you can go- this is not surprising as Google Maps doubles up the distance with each level as you zoom out. As the plane's on-screen speed is constant this would effectively make it fly twice as fast as on the previous level.
It's well done- by developer Mark Caswell-Daniels to showcase what he can do – he is available for development work.
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Posted: December 11th, 2010 under 3d, game, mash-up, simulator.
Tags: 3d, Flight simulator, google maps, mash-up
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California Fires on Google Maps
This shows just how useful the web can be, showing as it does where the fires are raging in California, where evacuation centers are located, what has been evacuated, where volunteers are needed, red cross centers and what’s closed etc. It is periodically updated from Twitter.
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Posted: October 15th, 2010 under geo, maps, mash-up, U.S..
Tags: california, fires, google maps, mash-up, red cross
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Wikimapia- Wikipedia meets Google Maps
The picture shows London, where I live and I’ve highlighted the Old Essex Cricket ground (until 1977) as I live within a couple of hundred yards of it. WikiMapia is a Web 2.0 project to describe the whole planet Earth. It was created by Alexandre Koriakine and Evgeniy Saveliev.
Wikimapia combines Google Maps with Wikipedia entries that are located on the map. Users can add them local to them. Not all places have a corresponding entry in Wikipedia. I’m not quite sure what happens with those.
Before places can be added they have to be voted in and at least 24 hours old. It’s an interesting idea and judging by the site’s popularity is getting a lot of attention. So if you want to put your place on the map just sign up. It’s free
Posted: November 16th, 2008 under google, maps, mash-up.
Tags: google maps, mash-up, wikipedia
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