Yet Another Google Maps Based Web App
Yeah Google Maps is pretty much everywhere these days. Some people just can’t stop making little sites based on Google’s popular mapping API that are clever at first, then annoying later on. Dammit that is getting old! Screw it, here’s another one: Celebrity Maps
It is what it sounds like. You click on a name, and the Google Maps interface wisks you there with a little baloon telling you the address. Seriously, what did stalkers do before this came out? Here’s a shocker: Its fun for a little bit, then it suddenly is boring and then you get hungry and need a nap, or at least thats how I felt.
Have fun and enjoy Celebrity Maps, but I’m pretty sure that link to Rodney Dangerfield’s house won’t net that much excitement.
View Hot Chicks From Different Zipcodes
Show of hands: How many people out there still spend the occasional night flipping through the old HotOrNot.com website? Ok, I can’t really see your hands…but does anyone do this any more? Just me huh? Well for those of you that don’t want to admit your addiction to Hot Or Not.com, here is a site that you can add to your secret internet life.
The next in the never-ending line of web-apps that build off of Google’s Mapping solution (Didn’t I tell you this was going to happen?) allows you to search by gender, age and (here’s the mapping part…) zipcode to view people on HotOrNot in a specific area. Its simple: You slap in a zipcode and Google shows you a map with the markers all of over it. You click on a marker and it shows you one of the people on HotOrNot that are in that location. Click “next” to show another, seemingly random, person. Amusing for about 10 minutes, or until you can hear your boss walking towards you.
Now what would be really cool, is if someone took this a step further and on the map showed colors, Dark-Blue to Dark-Red, based on the average scores the people on HotOrNot are getting in that area! Quick! Someone make that a reality for me!
Google Maps Pedometer
Now that the Google Maps API is out the flood of different scripts and usages for Google Maps will comming flooding in! Here is the first of many: “The Google Maps Pedometer”
A simple function, but it works great. You just click the record button and then mark with points the path that you want to track and the script calculates the distance. This is great for me because when the “gym” at my apartments is busy I just run outside and although I was pretty sure the loop I was running was a quarter of a mile (like a actual track) I wasn’t 100%. Now I am…its .267 miles to be exact.
Via MAKE: Blog