Reading Time: < 1 min About two weeks ago, Animoto launched. It’s billed as “the end of slideshows” and they might be right. Here’s how it works: You upload a bunch of your pictures. You upload a song or choose one of the songs they provide. You tell it to start. From there, it analyzes your pictures, analyzes the music, […]
Archives for August 2007
Making cool maps on your site with Google Maps
Reading Time: 4 min Today at Mt. Bethel we launched a Google Map that shows all of our upcoming events, with each one being clickable to the details for that event. Here I’ll explain how it was done. First, take a look at the source code on the map page. All we’ll do here is create an iframe to […]
Easily embed Google Maps on your site
Reading Time: < 1 min You can now embed a Google Map on your site in a similar manner as a YouTube video, rather than having to deal with the API. For novice webmasters, this will likely become a very popular thing to have. Full details and screenshots can be found on Google Maps Mania.
Real-time traffic now in Google Earth
Reading Time: < 1 min As reported on the Google Latlong blog, Google Earth now has a new “traffic” layer which uses the same real-time traffic data that is used in Google Maps. It’s not especially fancy, but that’s probably a good thing. Sometimes simple is better. The traffic is shown as a series of dots along the highway. Green=fast, […]
Google Maps StreetView … in 1907?
Reading Time: < 1 min This is a neat little find by Gadling. In 1907, Rand McNally produced some “Photo Auto-maps” that they gave to drivers, which included photos with arrows to show which way to go. The rest of their article has a few more pictures from it. Very cool.
Great collection of storm tracking and weather tools for Google Earth
Reading Time: < 1 min Frank Taylor at the Google Earth Blog has posted a great round-up of the best weather-related tools for Google Earth. The best piece of this post is the huge weather and storm tracking tools collection network link. It contains a handful of folders with various kinds of data, which includes: two global hurricane tracking tools […]
Tools for those affected by the I-35W bridge collapse
Reading Time: < 1 min The Google LatLong Blog has posted a few links with resources to help people with the aftermath of the bridge collapse. Here are a bunch of maps with photos, news articles, meeting point locations, contact information for nearby hospitals and prayer service schedules. Here is information about road closures and detours. They also suggest searching […]
Google Maps now gives estimated rush hour drive times
Reading Time: < 1 min This is pretty slick — Google Maps will now give you multiple estimated times for trips that you plan (in “a limited set of metropolitan areas”). Their example has someone traveling from Berkeley to Half Moon Bay, which is “about 59 minutes”. However, the directions also say that it could take “up to 1 hour […]