Fab Friday is Back
October 26th, 2012 | Published in Google Maps
Last week, Paul Saxman and I did a roundup of recent Google Maps API announcements, including the release of the Google Maps Time Zones API and the inclusion of traffic information in driving directions. Here’s the video:
This week, Paul teamed up with Brendan Kenny for a Maps Developer Live event: Visualizing Data with the Google Maps API: A Journey of 245k Points. They looked at a really interesting data set of digitized ships logs from the 18th and 19th centuries. The results, entirely rendered in the browser, are beautiful and useful.
Check out the video: