Painless Location Mapping for Web Pages
Got an e-mail from Brandon Bruce about his new MapMyPage Web app. It uses the MetaCarta engine to geocode locations in your webpages and place globe next to them. Click on the globe and see the location in a pop-up map (Googe Maps).
From the FAQ:
MapMyPage uses its own proprietary technology in combination with MetaCarta’s GeoTagger and the Google Maps API to identify locations in web pages and display corresponding maps. MapMyPage also provides hyperlinks to relevant content with every map including directions from Google Maps, bird’s-eye views from Google Earth, photos from Panaramio, weather from Weather Underground, articles from Wikipedia, news from Google News, events from Zvents, concerts from Gruvr, activities from Viator, trips from Kayak, travel books from Amazon, travel information from WikiTravel, real estate listings from PropSmart, jobs from Indeed, classifieds from Oodle, web search results from Google, blogs from Google Blog Search, videos from YouTube, radio stations from Radio-Locator, TV listings from Yahoo TV, gifts from CafePress, and auctions from eBay.
So, does it work? Well, I’ll test it below, you tell me! I pasted in the few lines of code.
I grew up in Winchester, Massachusetts, then went to school in Hyde Park in Chicago. After that I was off to State College, PA for graduate school. Now I live outside of Boston. My favorite trip I took was either to Arkansas to do trail work or to Durbin, South Africa, to help out with GIS for malaria research.
