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Mapping Google Maps

Posted by timothy on from the topography dept.

jgwebber writes "Google Maps is starting to cause a bit of a stir as Google makes the browser do still more backflips than most expected. In the tradition of dissecting Google Suggest and GMail, I've done a little dissecting of this newest service."

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  1. Re:what about plotting waypoints on the map? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Have you tried usaphotomaps from JDMCOX?

    USAPhotoMaps downloads aerial photo and topo map data from Microsoft's free TerraServer Web site, saves it on your hard drive, and creates seamless maps from it. You can:
    1. See the latitude/longitude
    2. Add waypoints, routes, and text
    3. Jump to any waypoint or latitude/longitude in the U.S.A.
    4. Transfer waypoints, tracks, and routes to and from most GPS receivers
    5. See your GPS location
    6. Scroll and zoom

    And it's free.

  2. Re:backflips? by TedTschopp · · Score: 4, Informative

    Trust me, getting PNG transparancy / Alpha Channel support in IE is a backflip.

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  3. Re:Google + DOM = Mozilla Juggernaut by ad0gg · · Score: 4, Informative

    You forgot to thank Microsoft for going outside of the standards and implementing XMLHttpRequest in IE5.0. Got so popular everyone started copying it. You see how gmail and google maps can change the content page without loading up a new page? Thats XMLHttpRequest, non standardized browser object.

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  4. RTFA by j3thr0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Google Maps is using a hidden iframe to send messages back and forth

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  5. Re:Safari support by prockcore · · Score: 4, Informative

    it is too bad that even Google can't get a webpage to render properly on any modern browser, such as Safari.

    Safari doesn't support XSLT. It's not google's fault that Safari is behind even IE6 in this respect.