A Map of Baseball Nation

Baseball fans may not list which team they favor on the census, but millions of them do make their preferences public on Facebook. Using aggregated data provided by the company, we were able to create an unprecedented look at the geography of baseball fandom Built using Google Maps. Also saw some GeoJSON fly by over …

Exploring Google Maps for iOS

The Google Maps SDK for iOS is a powerful framework that makes it easy to add Google Maps to your app and take advantage of other useful Google services, such as geocoding, direction finding, and Google Street View. These free videos from Code School help you get up to speed quickly. You can watch all …

Google Maps JavaScript API Cookbook

Last November I was lead technical reviewer for a book titled Google Maps JavaScript API Cookbook. On December 26th – my birthday, of all days – the book was released on Packt Publishing. It’s a very practical book with lots of code (hence it being a cookbook) touching basic map interactions, custom layers, drawing stuff …

Photoshop Google Maps Tile Cutter Script Update (Again)

Five days after the previous update PS_BRAMUS.GoogleMapsTileCutter — a Photoshop Script which automatically chops up a large image into tiles for use with Google Maps — has been updated again. With this new version one can now choose to place all tiles into one and the same folder (as it was before), or use subfolders …