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Entries from 'August 2007'

Global Mapper Release Update, Version 9

August 28th, 2007 · No Comments

From my Inbox to your eyes — notes, my highlighting. (Another extremely great upgrade. And sometimes I wonder if Mike gets any sleep.):

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Google Maps Tutorial, Creating Placemarks

August 28th, 2007 · No Comments

With the embedding capability for publishing Google Maps, a common need for publishing a Google Map might be to provide the following:

Address information for a business location, or several locations

Providing directions to or from a business location

Displaying a route of destination-points for a trip or tour
Displaying points of interest you’ve visited

This is done by adding […]

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Google Embeddable Maps Issue

August 25th, 2007 · 4 Comments

Nikolas Schiller discovered an interesting problem associated with the new ‘embeddable’ Google Maps. I tried to suggest a couple things to correct for this, but even after seeing if that’d work — I’m also realizing that it’s a major flaw.
The problem is that Google Maps doesn’t allow you to save a link with the target=”_blank” […]

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WordPress Plugin, Google Maps Quicktag

August 22nd, 2007 · 53 Comments

Since Google Maps can now be ‘embedded’ in a similar way to YouTube and Google Videos, I decided to create a basic plug-in for WordPress users and share it with whoever might think it’s useful. All it is, is a simple addition of a button in the administration panel editor — which pops open a […]

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Categories: Web · Web Mapping · WordPress
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Google Earth Demonstration System

August 21st, 2007 · No Comments

Stefan, over at Ogle Earth demonstrates a brilliant media demonstration, of creating your own weather station-like application using Wirecast. There’s a variety of uses for such a demonstration, actually — beyond this example.
Stefan’s demonstration, via YouTube

Taking it one step further
To add something to the mix, I’ll raise the bar a little bit by proposing a better […]

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  • Fri, 17 Aug 2007 at 7:04 am · The minor power issues that were occurring have been totally resolved, and I’m back to full multi-terrabyte capacity once again. I have another project that’s been in the back of my mind. · (0)

The Power of Flash

August 8th, 2007 · No Comments

I don’t think I even really need to say anything toward this Flash application example. It’s the fastest serving mapping aggregator I’ve seen yet, and its interface is absolutely what every designer looks for in an application like this — minimalism.

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