links for 2005-11-26
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The Best Word Book Ever, now more politically correct.
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sticker eyes placed on various objects
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All caught up on posting the required comments for the the 511 speakers:
There is a new version of Yahoo! Maps with draggable maps, and a live traffic overlay (though it doesn't seem to work on my firefox the site uses flash, and i had a flash blocker on). The zoom is also improved when compared to the competition, but I would much rather just draw a box around the area I want to zoom in.
Check out the Yahoo! Local Events Browser for a massive demo of many of the Yahoo! APIs. More info on the event browserhere.
Microsoft's version of Google Maps is dubbed Virtual Earth. The satellite maps are of a higher resolution than Google Maps, but aren't very up to date. Info on building websites with Virtual Earth is available at Via Virtual Earth.
Yahoo! Maps also has itself an API, though you can't embed the map into your own site (you have to use frames).
Google Earth has KML which is just a version of XML that lets you put place markers and 3d objects within Google Earth.
There is some information on open source GIS stuff out there if you are hardcore.
...and then there is ESRI. Their software is what the GIS folks use. I used to have access to a version of ArcView that I had used a few times, or at least tried to make sense of...
oh yeah.. Amazon.com has maps, and street level photos.