Looks like I am staying on my contract for another 6 months. While I am in the midst of finishing up my real projects, I am tasked with putting together an integration application with http://maps.google.com and City of Seattle address data. What is quite funny is that even though I am utilizing C# on the backend to perform my queries, the application is 80% javascript. Who would have thought we were be reverting back to the client so heavily?
Personally, I find .NET's mechanism of the full page postback to be quite archaic and it has always bothered me. Leveraging AJAX, my .NET server controls are nothing more than javascript renderers that communicate with the server for their data needs. I have to say that AJAX is a cleaner approach to client/server communication that the in the old days when we had to perform cross-frame postbacks to achieve similar effects.
Update: Look to http://web1.seattle.gov/dpd/GoogleDPD in the next few days for an Alpha version of some of the City of Seattle's permit and activity data linked with Google.