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Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[Libgmail.sourceforge.net] Google Maps Hacking and Bookmarklets: Methods of prototype: createMapDiv, loadTileImages, deleteTiles,initializeMap, getSpanLatLng, getCenterLatLng, getBoundsBitmap,getBoundsLatLng, calculateTileMeasurements, configureImage, onDrag,onMove, rotateTiles, rotateLeft, rotateRight, rotateUp, rotateDown,getTotalOffset, onDragStart, onDragEnd, onDoubleClick, onClick,getRelativeClickPoint, reconfigureAllImages, pan, doPan, cancelPan,recenterOrPanToLatLng, recenterOrPanToBitmap, centerAndZoom,centerAtLatLng, centerAtBitmap, addStateListener, onStateChanged,onResize, getCurrentOffset, switchSpecification, setSpecification,zoomTo, toggleTileBorders, addOverlay, createLocalMarker,createLocationMarker, clearOverlays, getDivCoordinate,repositionOverlays, setMarkerPosition, loadVPage, registerKeyHandlers,onKeyPress, onKeyUp, ignoreKeyEvent, startContinuousPan,doContinuousPan, onWindowBlur, onIconMouseDown, clearInfoWindowArgs,infoWindowNavigate, showInfoWindow, addMarkersToInfoWindowMask,addMarkerToInfoWindowMask, showSizedInfoWindow, showMapBlowup,createSpecChangeLink, onInfoCloseClick, closeInfoWindow,panToInfoWindow, repositionInfoWindow, getVMLPathString, createRawVML,getBitmapVectors, getVectorPath, getEncodedImageSource,createVectorSegments, createImageSegments, drawDirections,drawDirectionsMarkers, showDirectionsStart, showDirectionsEnd,showDirectionsStep, getDirIndicatorAngle, getDirIndicatorPath,hideDirectionsMarkers, directionsMarkersAreVisible, createMapControl,createZoomControls, createPanningControls, createZoomSlider,getRelativeZoomSliderPos, getZoomFromRelativeCoord, showCopyright,createCopyright

[Interreality.org] Reed Hedges: Mapping and Geography Archives: John Udell has made a little Google Maps bookmarklet (a javascript script that runs in Mozilla or Firefox) that takes you on a little tour of Keene, NH. Google Maps uses a clever mixture of client-side javascript and a server-side application, with communication in an XML based protocol, which people have been quickly reverse engineering. It turns out that you can encode a list of waypoints with titles and links, which is what Udell did.

[Zerohour.net] Reed Hedges: When you fill out the form, mygmaps makes an XML file you can hack further. I changed some of the icons above by recoloring the standard Google icon, but it's just a URL to a file on my own webserver, so I could have used anything.

[Mappinghacks.com] Mapping Hacks: As regular readers have heard me incessantly ranting, in the UK we don't have the freedom as citizens to make maps in the way US citizens do; no access to sources suchs as the TIGER street database from which one can build a plausible mapquest-style interface, or a comprehensive geocoder for addresses. Google map data comes from transnational companies with access to satellite time and fleets of ground-truthers - an approach we're proving it is possible to emulate from the ground up.

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