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WareLogging, VisualizingThings.
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* GoogleMaps
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* [http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/ Google Maps Mania] - A GMaps blog.
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* A [http://www.cfdynamics.com/zipbase/ list of all US zip codes with longitude and latitude].
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* O'Reilly's [http://mappinghacks.com/ ''Mapping Hacks''].
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* [http://cse-mjmcl.cse.bris.ac.uk/blog/2005/07/03/1120424701734.html GeoURL to Google Maps]
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* Google sat images that could be much cooler: [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=christchurch,+new+zealand&ll=-43.554182,172.743273&spn=0.025440,0.041911&t=k&hl=en South New Brighton]. [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Avebury,+Wiltshire,+SN8,+UK&spn=0.025440,0.041911&t=k&hl=en Avebury].
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* [http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=10&Z=14&X=3071&Y=21564&W=1&qs=%7cculver%7ckansas%7c Terraserver arial photo of the farm my dad grew up on, ca. 1991].
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* [http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=11&Z=14&X=1519&Y=10785&W=1&qs=%7cculver%7ckansas%7c Terraserver arial photo] of CulverKansas.
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* [http://www.multimap.com/ Multimap.com]
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* [http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/zipdecode/ zipdecode], by [http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/index.html Ben Fry] - Simple and clever. Plots a map of United States zip codes (the unique location identifiers at the end of our mailing addresses), and narrows it down by region and location as you type each digit. There's a zoom mode that highlights and labels the possible choices once you're on the last digit.
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* [http://geourl.org/ GeoURL] is a metadata (see [http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/03/24/index0a.html this Webmonkey article]) standard designed to pinpoint the geographical location of a web page.
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* In finding my own coordinates, I discovered that the [http://www.acme.com/mapper/ ACME Mapper] is fun to play with. It even has topographical maps.
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= wikilike things =
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Earlier: For a while now I have been idly wondering about a database system that would tie documents and meta-information to geographic coordinates, thus allowing us to "attach" information to places in the real world and build a human readable model of Earth's physical layout that could potentially far exceed traditional mapping. GeoURL is primitive, but a little thought shows that it provides the basic mechanics of such a system, probably better than the one-site Everything2-style database I was thinking of.
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Later: On the other hand, GeoURL is highly susceptible to spam.
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Attempts at this:
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* [http://www.wikimapia.org Wikimapia] - Not my favorite name, but it'll probably stick in people's brains. Fairly straightforwardly built on GoogleMaps, and seems to be gaining some traction -- they've either got a lot of people inputting stuff or they're pulling in a ton of outside data. Worrisome because it doesn't look like their dataset is especially open. I e-mailed them to ask about this and haven't heard back.
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* [http://www.geowiki.com/ Geowiki], which even uses the same remarkably obvious title I had in mind. Looks to be going nowhere fast.
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* GoogleEarth supports all kinds of annotation, and has its own XML format (KML) for this data. Recent versions of GMaps can also read KML, so it's not hard to see where this is going.
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