reclame maken voor google maps

Mike Pegg [...] created Google Maps Mania (www.gmapsmania.com) several months ago in a quixotic attempt to chronicle the phenomenon.

Almost every day he lists a dozen new ones, ranging from the commonplace, like sex offender maps, to the esoteric, like bird sightings in India. "I am their press release," Mr. Pegg said.

Why are people doing this? The flippant answer is also the honest one: because they can. Google has revealed the map-generating software, called an A.P.I., or application programming interface. (You can find it at www.google.com/apis/maps/.) And with that A.P.I., a programmer can create a mash-up by combining it with other data - like apartment listings on Craigslist, or demographic data from the United States census. The programming technique, itself a mash-up of programs, is also known as Ajax, for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML.

Link: NYtimes, [bugmenot je naar binnen!]
Link: Googlemapsmania.