Mashup: Visualizing the BP Oil Disaster
An explosion on the BP-operated Deepwater Horizon oil rig on April 20, 2010m sparked the greatest environmental disaster in United States history. This mashup visualizes the area that would be covered if the oil spill was in your city, or any other city.
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Comprehensive map of UK schools with comparisons of student scores and search capabilities. Marker drill-down brings you to Dept of Education and Skills site details.
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A mashup using Google Maps to visually find hotels in the UK.
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Goggles is a very fun and creative flight simulator built on top of Google Maps. Pick from one of five cities and go. Change altitude and direction using the arrow keys.
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Brady Forrest over at O'Reilly Radar has a new post that highlights an unofficial release of preliminary API for Latitude, Google's geo-location sharing service. Although the API has not been formally identified by Google, the API can be seen in use in two new apps: the new Google Location Blog Badge and Google Talk Location Status.
FortiusOne Releases Open Source Geocoder. Is Geocoding Becoming a Commodity?
Developers working with geo mashups should take note: geospatial startup FortiusOne has said that "geocoding should be a commodity" and has announced that it has released a new open source geocoder. If you're not familiar with geocoding, it is the process of assigning geographic coordinates to a location (typically an address or place name).
Twitter Increases Rate Limits by 50%
Your Twitter mashup just got 50% more content. And if you follow many people, you may have already noticed an increase in the flow of information. Why? Twitter just allowed developers 50% more calls per hour.
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