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Edit your MyMap container

Small update to the My Maps support in GoKML, announced a few days ago; you can now edit the links contained in the file. Just goto your secret admin page, generated for your link. People viewing your...

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Content on Google somehere, somehow?

I don’t know if anyone is interested in this stuff, but have been for a long time being trying to make sence of the various ‘geo’ properties operated by Google and quite a bit on how to get indexed and...

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Between a rock and a hard place…

This is going to be a long and rambley piece about licences and the updated updated Terms of Service of the Google Maps API – if either of those don’t interest you turn away now Not that long ago...

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MGRS coordinate entry

Prompted by one of those infernal* posts on a Google Maps group, have finally been inspired to cobble together a MGRS -> Lat/Long conversion. It seems trvial, the UTM->MGRS conversion is quite...

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Google indexes ‘Related Maps’ aka GeoRSS feeds

Just stumbled on this today, and not seen it noted anywhere yet, but (recently?) Google has exposed its index of ‘Related Maps’ on Google Maps. If you open the ‘Show Search Options’ option, there is an...

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Geocube Geograph Clusters in Google Earth

It’s about time did some Google Earth hacking, so thanks to the people at Geocubes, have made a new interactive layer for Google Earth. Geograph Google Earth Clusters This works in a similar way to the...

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Geocube Geograph Clusters in Google Earth – part 2

Now ready with the next version of the Geograph Google Earth Clusters layer mentioned yesterday. Geograph Google Earth Clusters It’s the same download link, if you already have a copy, just right click...

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Google powers your GeoDatabase

Update: Dec 16th, Offical Blog post is out. And just for interest a TechCrunch post too. Sometime recently* Google has added ‘geo-filtering’ and attribute filtering to the Google Maps Data API, I...

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UK Onshore geology maps 1:50 000 scale in Google Earth

The BGS recently publised the Geology of Britain website, which makes available a Geological map of Great Britain online in an interactive Map Viewer. They make available a 1:625 000 scale layer for...

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Preservation of the Google Maps Directory

Recently Google deprecated Mapplets, which are little applications that ran on Google Maps. They have also now removed the Google Maps Directory. However its still possible to run mapplets by a...

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Resurrecting the Google KML Embed and Tour Gadgets

Long time since posted here, but just wanted somewhere to record links to these tools: Fake KML Embed Gadget and Fake KML Tour Gadget They are replicas of the KML Gadgets that Google used to offer...

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ClassyGMaps

In the time honoured tradition, of kinda resurrecting closed down Google products, heres another.. ClassyGMaps Its the start of an attempt to recreate Classic Google Maps. But not far beyond a...

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