Like to spend your summer weekends looking at yard sales?
Yard Sale Treasure Map can make your search more productive. This site mashes classified ads from Craigslist with Google Maps to create maps of yard sales in your area during the upcoming weekend.
Just enter your start address, how far you want to travel, and the day of the weekend, from Thursday through Saturday. Treasure Map will plot the sales on a map. You can read descriptions of the sales, delete ones you don't want, add other stops, and plan a route, all before you print your custom map.
A great time and gas saver.
Showing posts with label Google Maps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google Maps. Show all posts
April 27, 2009
Learn More About Swine Flu -- and Watch Its Movement
If you are looking for information on Swine Flu, you might want to check out this podcast from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is available to view online, or you can download it to view later, on your portable music/video player.
While you are visiting the CDC, you might look at the Centers’ other podcasts. And, if you are interested in public health issues, subscribe to the Centers’ RSS feed.
Do you want to monitor Swine Flu across the country? Gizmodo will tell you how you can view the location of reports of the disease in real time, in a Google map.
[Thanks to Adult Services librarian Constance Doherty for the CDC site.]
While you are visiting the CDC, you might look at the Centers’ other podcasts. And, if you are interested in public health issues, subscribe to the Centers’ RSS feed.
Do you want to monitor Swine Flu across the country? Gizmodo will tell you how you can view the location of reports of the disease in real time, in a Google map.
[Thanks to Adult Services librarian Constance Doherty for the CDC site.]
November 26, 2008
Create Custom Maps using Google Maps
Are you planning a wedding, and would like to show out-of-town guests where the church, reception hall, and nearby hotels are? Perhaps you are planning a convention, and would like to have a map that shows local attractions. Or perhaps a map all of the places you visited during the year. You can do this easily with the My Maps feature of Google Maps.
To create custom maps, you will need a Google account. If you already use Google services such as Gmail, Google Reader, Blogger, etc... you already have an account. If not, go here to register.
After that, go to Google Maps at maps.google.com and sign in. Click on My Maps then Create new map.
After that, name your map, give it a description, and choose if you want to make it available to the public or keep it unlisted. Now all you need to do is add add points to it. Type in an address, and when the location is found, click on Save to My Maps.
After placing points on the map, be sure to click on the Link button on the right hand side to get the address for your custom map.
For an example, go here to see a map I created showing the locations of the top 40 best burger places as ranked by the Detroit Free Press. Also, to see a demonstration of additional ways to create custom maps, watch this video.
To create custom maps, you will need a Google account. If you already use Google services such as Gmail, Google Reader, Blogger, etc... you already have an account. If not, go here to register.
After that, go to Google Maps at maps.google.com and sign in. Click on My Maps then Create new map.
After that, name your map, give it a description, and choose if you want to make it available to the public or keep it unlisted. Now all you need to do is add add points to it. Type in an address, and when the location is found, click on Save to My Maps.
After placing points on the map, be sure to click on the Link button on the right hand side to get the address for your custom map.
For an example, go here to see a map I created showing the locations of the top 40 best burger places as ranked by the Detroit Free Press. Also, to see a demonstration of additional ways to create custom maps, watch this video.
October 25, 2008
What I Did Not Blog about While I Was at the MLA Conference
Yesterday, I returned from the MLA conference and caught up on my reading. Here are a few interesting posts about which I did not have a chance to blog earlier this week:
Microsoft has announced the spring 2009 release of Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Microsoft Office 2007. Microsoft is promising that SP2, scheduled between February and April 2009, will speed up Outlook and improve the charting function in Excel. If so, it will make a very good product event better.
This sounds cools, but I admit, it has limited applications: Blogger Amit Agarawal, has created a way to translate a latitude and longitude value into a street address on Google Maps. All you need to know is the the latitude and longitude where you are. Hm.
[via lifehacker]
As cities and states experiment with different types of voting machines, comes this unsettling report from The Princeton University Center for Information Technology Policy about security vulnerabilities that researchers have detected in the voting machines used by the New Jersey. According to the researchers, the machines can be completely compromised by replacing a single ROM chip — a task that they were able to complete in only seven minutes.
[via arstechnica.com]
I'm a news junkie, and Spreed:News sounds like a dream-come-true. According to lifehacker:
Microsoft has announced the spring 2009 release of Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Microsoft Office 2007. Microsoft is promising that SP2, scheduled between February and April 2009, will speed up Outlook and improve the charting function in Excel. If so, it will make a very good product event better.
This sounds cools, but I admit, it has limited applications: Blogger Amit Agarawal, has created a way to translate a latitude and longitude value into a street address on Google Maps. All you need to know is the the latitude and longitude where you are. Hm.
[via lifehacker]
As cities and states experiment with different types of voting machines, comes this unsettling report from The Princeton University Center for Information Technology Policy about security vulnerabilities that researchers have detected in the voting machines used by the New Jersey. According to the researchers, the machines can be completely compromised by replacing a single ROM chip — a task that they were able to complete in only seven minutes.
[via arstechnica.com]
I'm a news junkie, and Spreed:News sounds like a dream-come-true. According to lifehacker:
"Free speed-reading webapp Spreed:News lets you choose from a wide array of news sources and have their articles read to you in small clusters of words. Working from the principles that make for faster reading, you can scale the tool between 240 and 1500 words per minute, and set up an account to save your favorite sources — from Boing Boing to the New York Times and dozens more — for quick browsing."I haven't had the time to try it, yet, but if you do, let me know what you think.
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