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Google Maps
EnGraph is looking for an ASP.NET developer to join our team. We are a small company in Lenexa, KS that creates .NET applications for Paratransit agencies. A good candidate would be very comfortable with ASP.NET, Forms Authentication and JavaScript. A huge bonus would be knowledge of IIS, Google Maps API, AJAXPro, ActiveReports, WPF and SQL. We are accepting resumes immediately and look to hire as soon as January 18th. We would consider contract or full-time and we would require office attendance....
I just finished my presentation about consuming Google Maps at BarCampKC. Thanks to everybody who attended. We talked about the three different ways of using Google Maps in your applications or websites. Static Map Image API My Maps JavaScript API The slideshow is available via Google Docs or dowload the PPT The code is available for download here, make sure you change your api key...
I finally fixed the Get History issue that hasn't been working on Where's Tim for a while now. Apparently, the Google Maps API doesn't like it when you call removeOverlay with an uninitialized parameter. http://timhibbard.com/where... Technorati tags: Where's Tim, Google Maps API, removeOverlay...
Lawrence is gearing up for the biggest Kansas-Missouri game since ever. A bunch of business have changed their billboards to give the undefeated Jayhawks well deserved props. I took some pictures of the billboards and put them on a Google Map mashup. Rock chalk! Hope the MU fans are looking forward to a bowl game not in January. Technorati tags: Kansas football, Lawrence KS, Google Maps...
Kyle Archer is headed to New Jersey today to swoon our future clients at the COST Expo 2007 tradeshow. He took our Where's Tim phone, so you can view his current GPS location on Google Maps in real time (updates automatically every 15 seconds). You can view his location here. Or download the Where's Tim task tray alerter. It's ClickOnce, so it's double cool. Bring home the bacon, Kyle! Technorati tags: Kyle Archer, EnGraph, New Jersey, Where's Tim, GPS, Google Maps, COST Expo...
The Google Maps API blog talks about adding driving directions to their API. This is something that I am excited about adding to Where's Tim. I've had directions to me on my real time GPS site for a while (see the post here), but I've always just shelled out a url to maps.google.com. Now I can retain the users of that feature on my site and not have to send them away (hoping that they will come back). This is also big for the mashup "industry" as well. Visually understanding where an object resides...
Check out instruction #23 on Google Maps directions from New York to Paris. Good stuff :) Technorati tags: Google Maps...
The Google Maps API blog talks about adding support for GeoRSS enabled feeds on Google Maps. That means you can take the Where's Tim Messaging Feed and view the last 50 message people sent me on Google Maps You can also take my location feed and view it on Google Maps. Since my location feed contains Yahoo Maps, clicking on the GIcon will show a Yahoo Map on the Google Map! Technorati tags: GeoRSS, Where's Tim, Google Maps, Yahoo Maps...
PhoneNews reports that a version of Google Maps has been released for Windows Mobile. I downloaded and played with it last night on my PPC-6700. It works really well and it integrates with your contacts list. It is interesting to note that is uses the old version of the street maps and older satellite images. Also, the final version of Window Mobile Device Center is now released. Technorati tags: Windows Mobile, Google Maps...
Carl is driving to Colorado and wants people to watch his progress with GPS and send him text messages. Click here to see him on a Google Map and click the icon on the map once you get there to send him a text message. Technorati tags: Where's Tim, GPS, Google Maps...
Google Maps works by asynchronously downloading tiles of map/satellite data as you navigate around the map. Lately, I've noticed that it has been rendering the wrong tiles in Where's Tim occasionally. I've only noticed this in FireFox though. Anybody else seeing this? Technorati tags: Google Maps, Where's Tim...
You're going to be hearing a lot more about the Social Geocoding service, NavXS. It's MySpace meets Where's Tim. These guys do it right. They have a Windows Mobile client, a Java client, Google Maps interface and a rock solid permissions model. They also have a blog here. Technorati tags: NavXS, Social Geocoding, GPS, location sharing, Where's Tim...
The people putting on GIS Day at Kansas University tomorrow built a Google Maps mashup showing where are the presenters and attendees are located. That's a lot of people. I hope they like listening to a .NET geek ramble on about GPS :) They are going to video record each session, so if you don't get a chance to make it (Kyle), you'll still be able to join in on the fun. They will also be posting the slide deck from each session. Technorati tags: GIS Day, Google Maps, Kansas University, GPS...
This bus has been parked by our office for so long, that it shows up in satellite view on Google Maps. Technorati tags: Google Maps, long term parking...
Adrian Holovaty is at it again. You probably know him from one of the first Google Maps mashup, ChicagoCrime.org. This time the former LJWorld developer has created a database of political ads. The database is seachable by year, state, even type of music. Once again, Adrian has taken information and organized it in a way that makes it easily consumable...
I blogged a couple weeks ago about how Google Maps announced support of KML (location information file for Google Earth), and that the KML files that Where's Tim generates where not loading correctly. Well, sometime between now and then Google fixed the bug and now you can see my current location that was meant to be viewed in Google Earth on Google Maps!! Ok, it's not that cool for Where's Tim since it already lives in Google Maps, but it has potential for other applications. The query string in...
I added the Where's Tim API + Google Maps demo code to the article about showing the code from my AJAX.net talk. http://geekswithblogs.net/t
Too many Google Maps mashups force the user to enter a zip code, or select a state before displaying the data to the user. This interrupts the user experience and takes away the "browsing" capabilities that Google Maps offers. This article shows how load data from XML using the Google Maps AJAX helper when the user moves the map and display only the points that are in the viewing range of the user. http://geekswithblogs.net/t...
Too many Google Maps mashups force the user to enter a zip code, or select a state before displaying the data to the user. This interrupts the user experience and takes away the "browsing" capabilities that Google Maps offers. This JavaScript code will show how load data from XML using the Google Maps AJAX helper when the user moves the map and display only the points that are in the viewing range of the user. The XML file is located here. And a working example is here. <script type="text/javascript&...
Not everything is ready to go yet...but keep your eye out for Mike Pegg of Google Maps Mania on Where's Tim http://www.timhibbard.com/w
Steve Walker was at my AJAX.NET talk at Wichita Code Camp. This is what he said: ...One thing that I thought was interesting about the presentation was Tim showing us how his company uses Google Maps and GPS to track items around the world in real time. In a VERY small amount of code, we were able to see where Tim was at and where he had been on his drive over this morning... Thanks Steve. People are starting to use the Where's Tim API for interesting things. One guy mashed up Where's Tim data with...
This article is from a talk I did for the Kansas City .net user group. It will show you how to use the AJAX.net library written by Michael Schwarz. Initial Setup: 1) Download dll from http://ajaxpro.info 2) Open Visual Studio and create a new web application 3) Add a reference to the AJAX.net dll 4) Modify your web.config to include: <system.web> <httpHandlers> <add verb="POST,GET" path="ajax/*.ashx" type="Ajax.PageHandler... Ajax"/> </httpHandlers>...
Nicholas Carlson called me the other day to talk about Where's Tim and Google technology. He was nice enough to write an article on InternetNews.com about it yesterday. He also gave Dave Rheingold from ShakinDave.com a plug. [Where's Tim] [Google Maps] [EnGraph] [ShakinDave]...
Watch Matt Strausz of SmartStart prevent drunk driving this weekend on Where's Tim If you get on his site, check out the Find Location page. They have some cool Google Maps on there (built by yours truly). [Where's Tim] [SmartStart]...
This weekend, we migrated Where's Tim to ASP.net 2.0 and Google Maps API v2. We also added some "Get directions" functionality to SmartStart of Kansas Find a location page. And we just got dugg! [Where's Tim] [EnGraph] [Google Maps] [GPS]...
Matt Croydon blogged yesterday about Where's Tim. He got a new bluetooth GPS device. Turns out he is from Lawrence and is a programmer for LJWorld.com. He did the whatchamacallit thing a couple weeks ago as well as some other Google Map integration. I posted a comment on his blog that we should do lunch sometime. Maybe we can get them to create a Google Map of all the technology companies in Lawrence (there is two just in this building). [Google Maps] [Where's Tim] [Lawrence, KS]...
LiveWave is rocking with their new real time GPS web solution modeled after Where's Tim. It was pretty cool to watch them drive all over Newport, RI yesterday and I now know how other people feel when they watch me! These guys have been great to work with and we are working on some cool ways to integrate their existing camera feeds with the new GPS data and Google Maps. Stay tuned, we are going to be bringing some neat stuff. Kyle talks about it too. [EnGraph] [GPS] [AVL] [Google Maps] [Where's Tim]...
We just received a purchase order for a web based real time GPS system using Google Maps. It's exciting for me to see all the work we've put into Where's Tim starting to materialize into $$$. We have a couple other companies that are interested too, so hopefully we'll have a bunch of Where's Tim popping up on the internet :) Check back this weekend for a url. [EnGraph] [Where's Tim] [GPS] [AVL] [Google Maps]...
I started migrating Where's Tim to the v2 of Google Maps this weekend. They have provided good documentation so it wasn't too hard, even though I still think that I should not have to rewrite code because the vendor releases a new API. I understand rewriting code to get more functionality, but not to avoid my application breaking. Anyways, it works just about the same. The only problem I having is, I have a couple divs that are at an absolute position that display my current speed and mileage for...
Google has an API for their personalized homepage, and of course it is really easy to consume. It is an XML file with a place for HTML / Javascript. I created a striped down version of Where's Tim using their API. To install this module on your homepage, click here. Google provided a method for asynchronously downloading data, _IG_FetchContent (which I talked about the other day). To consume this method, you provide the datasource and the function you wish to call after the data is downloaded: function...
Apparently, Ostfold University offers a class called Location Aware Systems. In that class the students were asked to find Google Maps mashups that fit in the following categories: Most useful Most impressive Least useful Best commercial potential Most original Most stupid Also, I am guessing that the professor is making the students blog about it, because these Location Aware Systems blogs have been popping up all over the place. I think it's great that they are learning about Google Maps and even...
Christers Edvartsen is taking a class called Location Aware Systems. One of his assignments was to find Google Maps mashups in the following categories:Most usefulMost impressiveMost originalBest commercial potentialLeast usefulMost stupidGuess what won Most stupid?I would rather have been in the Best commercial potential list, but I'll settle for any plug :)...
New! Check out the new ClickOnce Where's Tim Tasktray alerter! http://timhibbard.com/where... When I tell people that I keep a GPS enabled Nextel phone in my car and anybody, at anytime can see my current position, they always ask, “Well, aren’t you worried about that?” I always say, “No, one day everybody will use their current location to assist them in their everyday lives.” While most people aren’t as comfortable with this level of transparency, I believe the social and business benefits of...
Found this on GoogleMapki: James Martin's "Where I've been". I really like how he uses 2 Google Maps to zoom in. Kind of like a scrapbook version of Where's Tim
I'm trying to get Google Maps and Yahoo Maps to play well together with Where's Tim. Not quite there yet, but getting close.http://www.timhibbard... Trying to work in URL query strings too:http://www.timhibbard.c... Technorati Tags: Yahoo Maps, Google Maps, Where's Tim...
Mike Williams built a tutorial on how to use the nice tabbed info windows on Google Maps like they have on Google Local. He also started a discussion in this Google Group. It looks a bit complicated for a non-web guy like me, but eventually I want to work these into Where's Tim. Technorati Tags: Google Maps, Where's Tim...
www.zive.cz wrote an article about AJAX and Google Maps and linked to Where's Tim and John Musser. It's all written in Czech and I couldn't find a translator that actually translated it, so I hope they are saying nice things. Technorati Tags: Where's Tim, GPS, AJAX...
Mike Pegg and Lance Robinson report that WhatIsMyIp.net is now using Google Maps to show an IP's location. It's nice visually, but it doesn't resolve host names to an IP address. Most of the IP addresses that I need to locate are in the host name format. It's not that hard to add the functionality, here's a free code sample. I'm going to stick with Geobytes...
Trevor Manternach talks about uploading a Google Map image of his town to Flickr and overlaying it with links to pictures and videos. He says: I know that people have hacked the Google Maps to have those little red pinmarks that will link to pictures and videos, but from what I have read, it is really really hard to setup. It's really easier than you may think to set it up. If you wanted to do it yourself, with a little web development experience and all the documentation here and here, it wouldn't...
Here is some javascript code that we use on Where's Tim. It will only recenter the map if the new point is out of the map view. We use this code on the AJAX refresh button. map.clearOverlays(); var pointA = new GPoint(-95, 38); var bounds = map.getBoundsLatLng(); if ((pointA.x > bounds.maxX) || (pointA.x bounds.maxY) || (pointA.y //only executes if pointA is out of the bounds of the map { map.centerAtLatLng(pointA); } var markerA = new GMarker(pointA); GEvent.addListener(markerA, "click", function()...