SchMap - Interactive Maps and Guides

SchMap - Interactive Maps and Guides
Maps and guides that are interactive and pull up information based on the area that you are exploring.



"Exploring a Schmap Guide is a uniquely interactive experience: maps and guide content are dynamically integrated, allowing intuitive, real-time access to reviews and photo slide shows for places of interest."


Using Yahoo Maps, and joining real-time data feeds to gives the users up to date information.

There is also a desktop application that can download
Schmap 2.0 (desktop) you can:

• Browse this Schmap Guide on your PC, online or offline.
• View Schmap Guides for 200 worldwide destinations.
• Bookmark places of interest, plan trips and take virtual tours.
• Custom print your own full-color travel guides.
• Publish and share schmapplets with your favourite places

or use the Schmapplets for your website which uses Google maps.

Picasa Mapplet Search - Google MyMaps

Picasa Mapplet Search - Google MyMaps New!

Allows users to Search for Geotagged photographs that have been made publicly available via the Picasa Web Albums



Other Picasa enhancements

• The size of the images you can upload - from 10MB to 20MB per image.
• Upped the free storage quota to 1GB (and counting!)
• All photos uploaded through Blogger now appear in My Photos
• Mac Version of "Picasa Web Album Uploader"

Get Geotagging your photos and share where you have been.

Official Post

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Google Mapplets - Preview

Google are rolling out Google Maps API Mapplets


Google Mapplets are mini-applications that you can embed within the Google Maps site


Here is a first example of a Mapplet in action. Notice the new tab next to 'My Maps'

link
http://maps.google.com/maps/mm?
mapprev=1&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=4

"Mapplets are mini-webpages that are served inside an IFrame within the Google Maps site. You can put anything inside this mini-webpage that you can put into a normal webpage, including HTML, Javascript, and Flash. Google provides a Javascript API that gives the Mapplet access to services such as manipulating the map, fetching remote content, and storing user preferences.

When a Mapplet is enabled by the user, Google's servers will fetch the Mapplet source code from your web server, and then serve it to the user from gmodules.com. To reduce the load on your server, gmodules.com will cache your source code for several hours."

Full Documentation on this is available here:
http://www.google.com/apis/maps/documentation
/mapplets/index.html

See some Mapplet Gadgets

This looks very promising in delivering your on live content on a google based map.
With the addition of buffering and geographical analysis of multiple types of data this becomes more of a geographical information system than a plain old map.

Describing content in visual form empowers people to understand their surroundings.

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