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Recent Google Maps Developer Event Videos & Pictures:

Google I/O Maps & Geo Sessions:

• The World’s Information in Context Must-see!
• Flash API for Google Maps
• My Maps Editing API
• Hosting your Geo Data, an Overview of Design Options
• Harnessing StreetView, Static Maps, and other new additions to the Google Maps API
• Google Maps: From Mashups to Mapplets
• How to Index your Geo data
• Advanced KML
• Parsing and Generating KML with Google’s KML Library
• Advanced Ruby Scripting for SketchUp

..Check out some delicious panoramas of the Google I/O event from 360Cities.net and be sure check where and when International 2008 Google Developer Days are happening near you!

Google Geo Developer Series:

• Quick & Dirty KML Creation
• Creating Custom Maps
• GigaPan In-Depth
• Dynamic KML
• Mars, Moon, and Sky Map Types
• Mapping the Votes (The making of Elections 2008 Map/Mapplet/Gadget)
• Google API Talks (Android, KML, Google Maps, Gadgets)

[Via this post that contains more info..]

Photos and Videos from other recent Geo Events:

• All Speaker Videos from the 2008 O’Reilly Where 2.0 Conference!! - Photos (still more)
• WhereCamp @ The Googleplex - Photos and Video

Google Maps Tools and Creators:

• Intel Mash Maker - Intel enters the web based mashup tool realm with Mash Maker which lets you mash Google Maps with other sites from the web. Take a look at a detailed review here..
• MapDangito lets you syndicate the popular MapDango mashup on your blog/website! (See a live example - right side, down a bit)
• Google Map Maker - Very simple web based Google Maps creator.
• Mapper.ch - A slim, handy app to create maps, POIs and drawings on Google Maps (Multilingual: de, fr, it, en)
• WexZone Mapper - Complete (Google Maps) map management system. (Example sites herehere..)
• Click2Map - Online Maps editor - info found in documentation and http://wiki.click2map.com/doku.php#tutorials section
• GoogleMapBuilder - Lets you create a Google Map using a spreadsheet or text file (Reviewed here..)
• Mapanui - Bookmarklet that searches for an address in the page and maps it.
• Useamap adds static maps for faster loading

Developer Links:

• Generate KML with Google Spreadsheets
• Google Earth for Browser Mashup with ArcGIS JavaScript
• Google Maps Collaboration Using Google’s New ActionScript API, Flex, and BlazeDSa>
• Google Maps timeline mashup examples here and here..
• Google Calendar + Maps mashup example (View source code)
• Check out heaps of Google Maps API examples in the Google Maps API Demo Gallery!
• Perl CPAN module: HTML::GoogleMaps - a simple wrapper around the Google Maps APIa>
• Perl CPAN module: HTML::GMap - Generic framework for building Google Maps displays[Thanks to Amos Shapira!]

Don’t forget that the Google Maps API Blog has been retired and is now the Google Geo Developers Blog!
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BBC Science has an interesting article on how the whereabouts of more than 100,000 mobile phone users have been tracked in an attempt to build a comprehensive picture of human movements.

It turns out that most people also move less than 10km on a regular basis, according to the study published in the journal Nature.

Mobile phone data is not widely available and while interesting to track general movement where it become of more use is via GPS and the movements of crowds. Currenty GPS handsets are expensive and battery hungry but in the next few years we are going to be increasingly ‘location aware’ allowing better understanding of our movement in cities.

See Mobile phones expose human habits

Also for those interested see our post on the Nature Network ‘Connected to the World but not the City‘ for a view of location based services and the prospect of mass market gps enabled devices.

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