Hacking Google Maps

Further to my earlier post, it turns out that there’s already plenty of work under way on hacking Google Maps. Engadget has a how-to on adding your own annotations to Google Maps — it requires Firefox and a plugin, though. This page shows you how to run Google Maps off your own server with your own custom XML data. This is a more general page on Google Maps hacking and bookmarklets. And there are a couple of wiki pages about Google Maps hacking — one for hackers and one for users.

Posted on Tuesday, March 8, 2005 at 11:09 PM
Categories: Online Maps

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> This page shows you how to run Google Maps off
> your own server with your own custom XML data
Actually there’s no need to run your own server at all. I just provided the code in case someone wanted to. You can just use my server as a “service provider”.

Of course, there’s no guarantee it’ll be there forever.

—Phil.

Phil | 03/14/2005 at 9:19 AM | #

As an expansion on the above, myGmaps.com was recently launched:

myGmaps enables you to create, save and host custom data files and display them with Google Maps.

The site is “alpha” quality—while we will endeavour not to delete your account and data there are no guarantees. There are a limited number of accounts available for testing purposes. At present each user can create approximately 10 maps with 10 locations each.

myGmaps is not an official or authorised Google service.

You might want to experiment with “minipages”, GeoPhotoBlogging (look for an uncoming feature to make this ultra easy), iframes, and JavaScript.

The aim of the site is to lower the barrier for entry to creating custom Google Maps.

—Phil.

Phil | 04/04/2005 at 10:09 AM | #

I used the standalone server mentioned above and custom data to create a map with ALL NYC subway stations on it.

http://monkeyhomes.com/map/nycsubway.php

Cary | 04/21/2005 at 10:57 AM | #

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