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Google Streetview Bug
Oct 9th
I was just doing some reading up & testing on the Google Maps API, and zoomed in to streetview only to find myself in the middle of a lillypad or a dirty fishbowl or something:
Supposedly, this is Missoula, Montana – though I think the locals would disagree with me.
Here’s the embedded version, which right now looks the same:
Right now, if I use the UI to navigate out of it, I can re-enter the real world, but then I can’t go back to the “green fungus reality” unless I refresh the page.
Any ideas?
Displaying a KML Feed on Bing Maps
Jun 24th
Okay – while not exactly where I wanted to be, I now see that I’m able to easily display a KML feed in Bing Maps (the artist formerly known as Microsoft Virtual Earth) by appending a “mapurl” parameter to maps.bing.com, and then feed it in the URL to your KML file. Like
For example, if you click through on the link above, you’ll see the KML file that I generated from my Flickr cross-country set, then superimposed on Bing Maps, with a nicely-formatted sidebar containing all of the other various metadata stored in the KML file.
I’ve still not been able to get their other sample to work, probably due to some sort of mime-type issue, but the above is a pretty nice feature.
Using KML to Show Flickr Maps on Google Earth
Jun 24th
KML File from Flickr being used in Google Earth
In trying to solve an issue I’m having with Bing Maps and using the Bing Maps API to import KML for map overlays, I ended up solving a problem I had earlier, where I was trying to find a nice way to show all of the photos of my road trip across america on one map or one presentation.
Flickr’s already-excellent mapping feature lacks one major use case, where one wants to be able to take a set of a bunch of photos, and show ALL of them on a map. I.e. how I just did, where I wanted to display all of the pics of my road trip on one map.
Well, a fellow by the name of Adam Franco wrote a great script using the Flickr API to output Flickr set data as KML for use in Google Maps or Google Earth.
So now, as you can see from the photo above, I was easily able to take the Flickr set that I made for my Cross-Country trip (which is composed entirely of geo-tagged photos) and immediately export that to KML for display on Google Earth.
I’ll then be using that as a test case to see if I can get Bing Maps to import & use the KML as well!
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