Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Mapness = goodness?

You'll notice that I've posted a link to our journey on mapness on the right-hand side of the page.

This is one of the ubiquitous web 2.0 "mash-ups" that leverages google maps to let you plot out a journey.  I'm not sure that I'm going to stick with it, since it doesn't integrate with blogger, but it is interesting to see where we've been (if a bit maddening to see how many times we've been to Cairns Australia).

It also helps me with my geography, although I'm sure I'm still deficient in that area.

If I can manage enough time I'll try to figure out how to use the google maps API to do a Casablanca-style animation of where we've been and when we were there.  

Given the Dining Philosophers Problem (and yes, I was taught this as the Chinese Philosophers Problem)  that applies to our laptop, it may have to wait for our return to the states...

1 comment:

Mark said...

Just read you comment about Mapness, and thought we would let you know that we do have some blogger tools in the pipeline, so stay tuned..