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Crix Pick Maps Hacks

By Wired Blogs April 7, 2006 Categories: Other

It’s book day on Monkey Bites, apparently. The newest, and therefore least obsolete, entry in O’Reilly’s href="http://hacks.oreilly.com/">“Hacks” series is href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/googlemapshks/">Google Maps Hacks, by Rich Gibson
and Schuyler Erle, a guide to what-all you can do with Google Maps. Overlaying your own data
on a map is duly explained, a la GarbageScout
(Hi Jim!) or the Sopranos map, or href="http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/">heaven knows what else.

But the book, which
Chris Sherman reviews
here, goes well beyond that, into the depths of scripting with Google’s API to create a
geographic area
comparator, a distance
calculator, and more. Looks like no end of fun.

Meanwhile, ZabaSearch maps your IP address, just to put a scare into you.

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