Dr Alan Howard » Google Mashups

my bing map : real time geography

admin — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:11:44 +0000

“my bing map 2.0″ is a new Web 2.0 application that creates a live feed from sites like flickr, twitter and wikipedia based on the visitor’s chosen location. Unlike my previous interactive maps, this is based on Microsoft’s bing map api, which is likely to prove strong competition for google maps.

visit the new site here

Skycam map using OS Openspace AJAX

admin — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:57:25 +0000

We have been doing some work with AJAX methods provided by the OS Openspace API. To help anyone else out there working on this we have provided a simple example that loads a list of coordinates and URLs from a text file and uses these to add markers to a base map. In this example the marker, when clicked, reveals a live “sky cam” image, usually provided by a personal weather station website.

The application is created using the Ordnance Survey OpenSpace API including their loadurl AJAX method. Zoom in on the map and you’ll see it’s a real OS map! We also have a version using Google Maps.

Website visitors plotted on a Google map

admin — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:07:32 +0000

I have created a simple application to plot website visitors on a google map and implemented this at
http://www.songcontestvoting.com/e.

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This simple mash-up plots the locations of the last 50 website visitors. It
requires:

1. a script to determine the IP address of the visitor and to geolocate this
IP using a service such as maxmind.com

2. a script or data file in which the latitude, longitude, and country (or
other text) of the last 50 visitors are saved (e.g. figure 2 below) in csv
format.

3. a google mashup like the one given in figure 1.

4. your own google api key.

You can download the sample code from here.