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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- MapsKrieg is a Web 2.0 style mashup of CraigsList and Google Maps. It provides an interface to view Craigslist apartment listings visually using the Google Maps API.
- First cruise site that plots cruise routes in Google Maps and Google Earth.
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The prevalence of mashups on the web is probably thanks to the Google Maps API and other mapping APIs. It remains the most popular type of mashup, more than three times the second-most, photos. The ubiquity means maybe map mashups have lost some of their luster.
MapQuest Adds Transit to Directions APIs
Online mapping pioneer MapQuest is using open data to provide transit directions via its MapQuest Directions API and the OpenStreetMap-based MapQuest Open Directions API. In both cases, transit directions are based on the Google-created GTFS data standard that helps transit agencies share their routes, schedules and fares in a consistent format. Currently MapQuest's support is limited to six U.S. metro areas.
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