Building a Better Georgia Tech Map (The Collaborative Way).
We all know the power of Google Maps. Last year started my journey with their API (I created a map of the ACC basketball teams and how they fared at home/away games).Well today I saw, via the O'Reilly Radar, that Google has started MyMaps - a way to create mashups without knowing how to program. So when you create a shape or marker and add text to it, that information becomes attached to the geocode and then searchable by Google. Hot. And they made the process very easy.
So the most obvious immediate solution I saw was creating a map of the Georgia Tech campus that's actually usable. Bless those engineers' hearts, but the current one is crap. So I created a map. And the beauty of it is that because it's public, anyone can add to it.
Check it out here, and if you have a minute, add a building or two.
Link.
posted by annie @ 6:28 PM
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