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Interesting use of Google maps API for non-cartographic data
- ratsbane 19y agoThey're using the Google maps API to display genome data which doesn't have any relation to the underlying cartography. This seems like a neat trick and makes me wonder about what other kinds of structures you could represent this way. It looks as if they're just using Google maps for the JS library?
- cousin_it 19y agoHere's a better one: http://browsegoods.com/ http://browsegoods.com/ , built by "ows" at Reddit and friends http://reddit.com/info/69dia/comments/c038ey8 http://reddit.com/info/69dia/comments/c038ey8 . Someone should reimplement it in Flash, I have too many interesting things to do right now =) Seriously - anybody wanna learn to build draggable maps? It's dead easy, I can teach you by email.
- ratsbane 19y agoGood link. From that I found http://www.openlayers.org/ http://www.openlayers.org/ with all sorts of good stuff.
- cousin_it 19y agoAt http://kosmosnimki.ru http://kosmosnimki.ru , I first tried using OpenLayers, but eventually wrote a JS slippy map from scratch. Also see http://mapnik.org http://mapnik.org , we use it too.