Simon Willison’s Weblog

Introduction and Yahoo! Pipes. The official Google Maps API blog describes how to plot KML output from Yahoo! Pipes.

# 3rd May 2007, 10 pm / yahoo, google, google-maps, yahoopipes, xml, maps

Soviet Military Maps History. “I have been researching the history of the Soviet global mapping project and, in particular, the large scale plans of British and Irish towns and cities produced from 1950s to 1990.”

# 11th April 2007, 12:43 pm / soviet, maps

Google My Maps: Bodeans. I’ve been talking about how useful a simple tool for creating custom maps would be for ages... looks like Google beat me to it. Here’s one I created showing the location of Bodeans, an excellent Kansas-style BBQ joint in Soho, London. It’s a shame the URLs suck.

# 5th April 2007, 5:40 pm / mymaps, maps, london, google-maps, bodeans, bbq, soho, google

Modest Maps. Flash draggable maps library, BSD-licensed. Use it with tiles from OpenStreetMap / NASA / Google / Yahoo! etc or run it against your own tile set.

# 23rd March 2007, 3:41 pm / modestmaps, maps, flash

Neighbourhood Fix-It. Report problems to your council across the UK. The most detailed Ordinance Survey maps anywhere online, and a superb example of progressive enhancement in action—the maps work without JavaScript, and the site even works without images!

# 17th February 2007, 5:05 pm / matthew-somerville, barcamplondon2, progressive-enhancement, maps, javascript, mysociety

Multimap API: Decluttering Markers (via) V1.2 of the Multimap API is out, and the nicest new feature is automatic decluttering of close-together markers.

# 14th February 2007, 11:30 am / decluttering, multimap, multimapapi, maps, mapping

LiveBus.org (via) Brilliant Google Maps mashup in a similar vein to Chicago Crime—displays screen-scraped bus timetable information for Oxfordshire and Surrey in a far more useful format.

# 10th February 2007, 10:56 pm / livebus, james-wheare, google-maps, chicagocrime, maps, mashup, oxford

Introducing: World Explorer and TagMaps. “Can we automatically extract information from Flickr geotagged images to create a rich visualization of the world we live in? The answer is: you bet.”

# 19th January 2007, 9:55 am / yrb, tagging, flickr, maps

OpenID Speech at Webtuesday Zurich. Good set of slides, along with the tidbit that local.ch (which had slippy maps years before Google) is implementing OpenID.

# 11th January 2007, 3:27 pm / openid, maps, slides

Yahoo! aerial imagery in OpenStreetMap. Tracing is allowed. This should speed things up an awful lot.

# 4th December 2006, 1:17 pm / openstreetmap, yahoo, maps

Y! Cool Thing: Mapping The Globe. Yahoo! finally adds international maps, with great coverage.

# 10th November 2006, 10:55 pm / yahoo, maps