Maps 2.0

Jeff SchneidewindEmerging Technologies Research SpecialistUC Irvine Libraries

Lunch2.0March 19, 2010

Maps 2.0

Visual mashups of cartographic and just about any other kind of data so we can use maps in ways not possible in the past.

February 1996 – Mapquest debuts

February 2002 – Yahoo! goes in-house

March 2004 – Google Local debuts

March 2004 – Yahoo! “Smartview” debuts

September 2004 – Zoom and pan in Google

Online Mapping Milestones

February 2005 – Google Maps debuts

April 2005 – Google adds satellite views

June 2005 – Google releases Earth and API

August 2005 – Google Earth used to help rescue Katrina victims

Online Mapping Milestones cont.

CBD Pre-Flood

CBD Post Flood

Traffic congestion

Walking directions

Transit – directions via public transportation

Biking directions (added March 10)

More Google Maps Features

Yahoo?

http://www.sergeychernyshev.com/maps.html

New Orleans Times-Picayune

http://www.nola.com/katrina/graphics/flashflood.swf

Vicarious.ly

http://austin.vicarious.ly/

Hypercities

http://greatdane.ats.ucla.edu/#collections/15165

Track This Now

http://trackthisnow.com/

http://mashup.dtsagile.com/

Flickr Maps

http://www.flickr.com/map/

Google Earth Application

http://earth.google.com/

Questions? Comments?

1. “Corporate Information - Google Milestones,” http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html.

2. “7 Things You Should Know About Mapping Mashups,” http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7016.pdf.

3. “Official Google Blog: Seeing what Katrina has wrought,” http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/seeing-what-katrina-has-wrought.html.

4. “Google Maps Mania,” http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/.5. “Historical Map Mashups Turn Cities Into Glass Onions of Time |

Webmonkey | Wired.com,” http://www.webmonkey.com/2009/05/historical_map_mashups_turn_cities_into_glass_onions_of_time/.

6. “Yahoo Maps Mashups,” http://www.programmableweb.com/api/yahoo-maps/mashups.

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