[postgis-users] google map mashups

Paul Ramsey pramsey at refractions.net
Thu Oct 20 07:12:42 PDT 2005


There's a "Google Group" (mailing list/news group/web forum) for the  
Google APIs and PostGIS does get a lot of mentions there, presumably  
because it's a good place to keep the non-Google bits of data that go  
into the mashup.

On 20-Oct-05, at 5:15 AM, Robert Burgholzer wrote:

> Interesting site that chronicles map mashups (forgive me if this is
> commonplace to the users of this list), using an API published by  
> google
> -- featured in the New York Times today. Web site developers can  
> use XML
> and javascript to create custom annotated maps using googles engine on
> their own site. Perhaps this would be appropriate to the mapserver  
> list
> serv moreso than PostGIS, but it seems that a technology like this  
> could
> easily be implemented with the help of PostGIS.
>
> The API:
> http://www.google.com/apis/maps/
>
> The Map Mashup Site index:
> http://www.gmapsmania.com/
>
> The NY Times article (requires registration, but free):
> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/20/technology/circuits/20maps.html? 
> th&emc=th
>
>
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