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Google Mapplets

Google has a preview available of their mapplets along with some documentation. Here’s a screenshot of the weatherbug mapplet:

With the custom markers and search form available it may be interesting to throw together a mapplet for worldcat or a local consortia, plotting the libraries that carry the item and possibly status if available. You could [...]

Google My Maps and Geo Syndication

via O’Reilly Radar again (subscribe if you don’t already):

It adds the ability to create and share maps directly from Google’s site (you can see a map that I created above). These maps will be added to Google geoindex and will be available to search in Google Earth and in Local Search. These maps will be [...]

Machine Tag Metadata

Once referred to as “tripletags” supposedly but now called Machine Tags, due to Flickr’s adoption of their use for geocoding, etc. From machinetags.org:

Machine tags, or triple tags, are tags that are made up of three parts (namespace:predicate=value) in order to give extra information. Machine tags have been in use for a while now on sites [...]

Google Books Maps

One of the powers of full text, even if you don’t present it to users, is that you can build some interesting things on the data analysis. One such tool is mapping of place names in the works. I believe I’ve previously blogged it but one example is Gutenkarte which maps locations in texts available [...]