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Maps

Maps It can be very handy to put data on a map, so that geographical variations can be identified. Here are a bunch of pages where we look at map-based datasets that people have published. (more)

Google Maps API

Google Maps API (more)

UK Crime Maps for England and Wales

Crime maps for England and Wales are now available at www.police.uk. All you have to do is enter your postcode. There is also a version for the Met Police: maps.met.police.uk. In the early days of this service you may have to be patient ... (more)

Google Maps API

You may have seen Google Maps, and will probably find it the easiest one of the lot to use. They've really got it sussed with drag-panning, haven't they? It's so smoth too. Anyway, for all you webmasters, they've now released an API of ... (more)

Historical Maps of Norfolk

Norfolk County Council has published historical maps of Norfolk, available at http://www.historic-maps.norfolk.gov.uk/. These maps go back to the early 19th century. It is free to use, with digitised aerial photographs and historical ... (more)

Maps in Maps

Here's a neat feature in a google map - Popup maps within the map! Click on one of the markers and you'll see what I mean. This is useful for getting the detail on something without losing track of your surroundings, and it saves on zooming ... (more)

Video Sitemaps For Google Search

Read about creating Google video sitemaps (more)

PHP Class for the Google Maps API

This looks interesting: A Google Maps API class for PHP. The example certainly seems to be exactly what you'd want from such a class. (more)

Satmap Active 10 GPS with Bike Mount and Half Price Maps

This GPS unit with Ordnance Survey mapping is quite expensive (£320 on offer from Wiggle), but with the whole of the country available at 1:25000 scale, that's a lot of detail at your fingertips. It has a USB interface and is powered ... (more)

Sitemaps in robots.txt File

Give your carefully created sitemap a mention in your robots.txt file. You simply use this format: Sitemap: http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml You can repeat this line many times, if you have many sitemaps (eg, a video sitemap as well ... (more)

Editable Google Maps

Here is an example of a gmap application that allows you to set your own markers on the map. The author of this app is Greg Stoll, and he has his own nifty waymarker application that also gives you distances between locations. The markers ... (more)

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