SundayMorningRides.com - GPS Motorcycle Rides
11 February, 2007

Category: Google Mashup

Brief Description: Sunday Morning Rides goes beyond the traditional motorcycle ride site. It is an interactive community portal for motorcycle riders to access, explore, plan, and share ride tracks via a sophisticated mapping system that combines GPS, geographic information systems, database, and Google(TM) Maps technologies. With this system, riders can easily explore rides from across the US, customizing their online experience with geographically referenced points-of-interest, motorcycle relevant services, imagery, videos, rider reviews, hazards, weather and more. The Sunday Morning Rides mapper can also be embedded within community websites, providing a drop-in solution for the ride planning needs of existing enthusiast forums.

Client-side technologies: HTML, SSI, CGI, JavaScript, AJAX

Server-side technologies: Perl, WMS

Database technology:  XML, GPX

— Abel Lin (awlin@sundaymorningrides.com), Sunday Morning Rides

DynaWebMap
07 February, 2007

Category: Retail

Industry:  Agriculture, Health Care, Real Estate, Telecommunications, Local Government, Higher Education, Environmental, Banking / Insurance / Finance, Retail, Public Safety, Public Health, Non-profit Organizations, Education K-12, Advertising / Marketing / Mkt Research, Consulting, Exploration / Mining, Federal Government, Forestry / Land Management, Restaurants / Entertainment, Law Enforcement, Business GIS, Applied Geography & Spatial Sciences, Demographic Data, GIS Software Products, State Government, Customer Relationship Management, Sales Force Automation, Land Information/Land Use, Homeland Security, Crime Analysis, Tourism, Urban and Regional Planning, Politics & Elections, Business Intelligence, Energy & Power, Disaster Management & Response, Education University, Training

Brief Description: DynaWebMap provides a powerful server side map web control which integrates with gViewTek's vector maps library. Users can select their own interesting maps and connect their own data, such as demographic data or other statistics data through data binding fields. DynaWebMap map web control provides wonderful vector map with professional map operations and dockable map components, such as toolbars, overview map, dynamic legend, and charts. DynaWebMap allows users and developers to easily create, display the dynamic web-based vector map, and chart through a group of simple code inside the web pages or behind the web pages. DynaWebMap provides both a set of project templates with Visual Studio .NET interface and a standalone interface without Visual Studio .NET. This means you can generate your web map application intuitively even without Visual Studio .NET!

Client-side technologies: HTML, SVG, JavaScript

Server-side technologies: ASP.NET 1.0

Server-side applications: DynaWebMap

Database technology:  Access

Commercial GIS Software used: DynaWebMap

Application areas: Federal/State/County Government, Community, Statistics Department, Marketing,

— Lindi Liao (info@gviewtek.com), gViewTek

Jotle adds pictures and videos to Wikimapia and Placeopedia
05 January, 2007

Category: Google Mashup

Brief Description: Google Maps + Wikimapia + Placeopedia + Flickr + YouTube = Jotle!
Jotle is an new Flickr photo and YouTube video explorer that takes Google Maps and mashes it up with Wikimapia and Placeopedia placemarks.
Jotle lets you zoom into various parts of the world and see map points for Wikimapia and Placeopedia. Jotle then uses the tags for these locations to pull in photos from Flickr and videos from YouTube. Though it's definitely not the first Flickr + YouTube Google Maps mashup it is the first that uses this clever location-plotting as a way to suggest photos and videos for the areas of the map you're looking at. It's also a great compliment to the immense value both Wikimapia and Placeopedia offer in the area of travel and tourism. Now in addition to researching areas you are about to visit using Wikimapia and Placeopedia you can also use Jotle to get a visual feel for the immediate area.

Client-side technologies: HTML, JavaScript, AJAX

Server-side technologies: Java, JSP

— Mikhail Novikov (mikhail.novikov@gmail.com), SPbSUT

Wikiloc - GPS tracks and waypoint of the World
09 November, 2006

Category: Google Mashup

Industry:  GPS

Brief Description: Wikiloc is a completely free online service where an open community of GPS users participate in sharing their GPS data from around the World. Everyone can freely post, share and discover GPS locations (tracks and waypoints) quickly and easily and visualize it on Google Maps, overlaid on layers provided by freely accessible Web Map Services and even in 3D with Google Earth. Additionally, Wikiloc generates elevation profiles for tracks, computes distances, accumulated heights... users can even get driving directions to the start of track (e.g: trailhead). Everyone can freely find and download GPS data shared by other users as a GPX file suitable to be uploaded to a GPS receiver device. Once in the field the GPS receiver can be used as a guide along a trail (track) or towards an interesting spot (waypoint). There's a lot of room for improvements and any suggestion will be very welcome.

Client-side technologies: HTML AJAX

Server-side technologies: Java JSP

Database technology:  PostGIS PostgreSQL

Commercial GIS Software used: None

Application areas: GPS navigation, outdoor activities, tourism promotion, georeferencing photos, identifying points of interest

Time invested in development: More than I expected, in my spare time

Maximum number of concurrent users: 300

— Jordi Lopez Ramot (jordi@wikiloc.com), Wikiloc

Zoomf.com Property Search
23 October, 2006

Category: Google Mashup

Industry:  Real Estate, Advertising / Marketing / Mkt Research, Internet/Web Mapping/Web Services

Brief Description: A property search engine Google maps mashup, aggregating listings from many online sources and making them easily searchable with a map-based visual interface.

Client-side technologies: AJAX, DHTML, HTML

Server-side technologies: Java, Linux, Thinking Cap

Server-side applications: Lucene

Database technology:  MySQL

Commercial GIS Software used: Google Maps

Application areas: Property search, Vertical search

Time invested in development: 9 months

— Ivailo Jordanov (ivailo@zoomf.com), Zoomf

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