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Ogle Earth: Google Earth is good for you.: One difference is that the PC saves a KML file with a <Folder> element at its root, whereas the Mac uses <Document>, into which it places a <Folder>. But more importantly for debugging the calculator, the Mac version also saves <visibility> and <open> for each placemark, so that later, the folder's state is preserved when the KML is uploaded back into Google Earth. (via Cosmos)

Brain Off :: Mikel Maron: MGeoRSS: Google Maps API Extension for GeoRSS I've reworked some code for parsing GeoRSS in Google Maps into a proper extension .MGeoRSS. (via Cosmos)

Ogle Earth: Google Earth is good for you.: Mikel Maron at Brain off does his bit, writing an extension that parses GeoRSS in Google Maps called MGeoRSS. He hopes the big players get on board. (via Cosmos)

erich’s web-o-rama - personal weblog of erich holzbauer: GeoRSS is rapidly establishing itself as a useful lightweight format for exchanging point data….GeoRSS has found homes in Yahoo!, worldKit, and mapbuilder. Now Mikel Maron has released MGeoRSS, a Google Maps extension that handles GeoRSS. (via Cosmos)

[JHill] links for 2006-02-02: February 01, 2006 links for 2006-02-02 Understanding XML: AJAX, Systems Theory and Climate Change (tags: ajax to.read via,anarchaia) MEPHISTO JONES (tags: portfolio illustration gallery via.sweaterbox) MGeoRSS: A GeoRSS Google Maps API Extention (tags: georss rss lbs javascript googlemaps)

[Brain Off :: Mikel Maron] MGeoRSS: Google Maps API Extension for GeoRSS: With GeoRSS standardization in the works, its important to get the big map players on board to support. How bout it Google -- are you ready to step up and promote GeoRSS directly in your API?

 [webmapper | what the map can be] YAMA: All in all, web maps have never been pushed across the Web at this rate before, as Ajax implementations in particular have released web mapping applications from the dire click-and-wait paradigm. Online mapping suppliers no longer determine the map view, but leave it up to the end-user to centre a map view that may cover multiple map tiles.

 [Radar.oreilly.com] O'Reilly Radar > Yahoo! Announce Next-Gen Maps API: As the geowankers point out, GPS sensors + routing API + Google Maps + clever coding = your own in-car navigation, and that's NAVTEQ's bread and butter. If you look at the credit at the bottom right of the maps.yahoo.com images, they're credited to both NAVTEQ and TeleAtlas (previously it was just NAVTEQ) whereas Google's are just TeleAtlas.

[All Points Blog: Our Opinion, Your Views ”” The Weblog for Location Technology & GIS] Yahoo Maps Updated: - There's also an extension to the Simple Publishing API offered when the API lauched in June. A free downloadable "Microsoft Excel plug-in creates a Web page with content from a developer's Excel spreadsheet onto a Yahoo Map to create a map mash-up without requiring any programming."

[Dan Theurer] How to build a Maps Mash-up: How to build a Maps Mash-up November 3rd, 2005 Maps are cool! Not only do they provide better aerial images, what makes a map even more valuable is to add data to it.

[Brain Off :: Mikel Maron] Ning Geo Pivot: In the spring I was invited to beta test and develop within a mysterious project called 24 Hour Laundry, now ning. These folks really grokked developers, and I spent a chunk of the summer digging into the unique bits of this system: the content store, a freely structured database designed to evolve cooperative data formats (some similarities to the rumored Google Base);

 [webmapper | what the map can be] Where on earth?: Even visitors of Google Local have the opportunity to complain about the search quality (e.g. incorrect address or incorrect map data) and report problems such as suboptimal driving directions or out of date maps and satellite imagery.

 [O'Reilly Radar] Geobloggers and the Y! Identity API: Because the new Flickr API ties in with Yahoo is means that anyone with a Yahoo username can login and use the geobloggers site, without any additional registration. Geobloggers has gone from a potential user base of anyone with a Flickr account, who sent me an email, that I'd have to process by hand, to anyone with a Yahoo Account and I don't have to do anything.

[Coolz0r - Marketing Thoughts] :: The Yahoo Maps API's Deliverd By Fleishman: I hope to hear more good news from Yahoo! (or Macromedia) from your part, as I expect to be enlisted in an informative mailing list from now on, otherwise I'd be very disappointed to have received the first spam mail ever for side-products of a widely known and respected search engine.

 [The GIS user Blog] Yahoo! Local to offer free Yahoo! Maps API: A blog for GIS / Geospatial users and enthusiasts - Developed by Glenn Letham,(Founder/Managing Editor of GISuser.com) Topics of discussion here include GIS, maps, mapping, GPS, location-based services (LBS), remote sensing, google maphacks, google earth, yahoo! maps, MSN local live, mashing, and related geospatial technologies...enjoy!

 [Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life] Last Week in APIs for Online Mapping Services: Last week was the O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference where a number of players in the online mapping space including Yahoo!, Google and MSN announced API plans for their various services. The Yahoo!

[Brainoff.com] MGeoRSS: A GeoRSS Google Maps API Extention: GeoRSS is supported by Yahoo!, worldKit, and many others, and is on its way to standardization. Wouldn't it be great if Google joined up and supported a common way to communicate place on the web?

 [Tailrank.com] TailRank - MGeoRSS: Google Maps API Extension for GeoRSS: Slashgeo and O'Reilly Radar both cite the creation of MGeoRSS , an extension to GeoRSS that supports Google Maps/Local. Said another way, you can use tagged RSS feeds to populate a Google Map.

 [Googlemapsmania.blogspot.com] Google Maps Mania: GeoRSS Map Viewer: Simple Map is just a matter of writing a fairly simple XML file, while creating even the simplest Google Maps app requiries writing a program in JavaScript. Since most people are not programmers, you might expect Yahoo!

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