Just a quick note, I have started back in on the gmaps widget, using the GMap2 structure, and basing it on the API code to prevent future breakage.
Hopefully it should be released in a couple weeks!
Google Maps
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This is the unofficial Google Maps viewer for the OSX Dashboard.
Current version is 0.9c
Version 0.9c Screenshot:
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Upcoming Version 1.0a Screenshot:
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- Future Features:
- Pop-out sidebar for directions support.
- Print Functionality – options include new safari window, handle it within the widget, etc?
- Some sort of route following function be of use (in directions mode)?
- Support for loading your own xml/xsl mapping files.
- Support for google’s satellite maps (this is already done, just not enabled).
- Support for TerraServer satellite mapping data – allowing better resolution, though with older photographs, for the satellite view.
- Much better GUI – with design by Daniel Burka of SilverOrange
Update:
Still working on the bug fiexes, as google has switched to a new API – see the newest post on the subject here
- Current Bugs
- It will not show the content in the popup pin windows.
I am always open to suggestions and improvements, so feel free to post in the comments section, or email me directly at lokkju@lokkju.com
The many places you can find your code
About 6 months ago, when the Google Maps API first came out, I did some major work with it, both in providing functions to make it run better, and in extending it. Based on the idea by David Schuetz’s TerraServer functionality for the old style of Google Maps hacking, I wrote a simple library to enable TerraServer maps through the Google Maps API (you can still get it here). I released it through the newsgroups, and then prompty forgot about it.
Well, today I was looking into some more Google Maps stuff (I use it on and off in many of my projects), and I found that there are quite a few sites out there using my library. Needless to say, I was pleasantly suprised. The two best are below:
AccuTracking – http://www.accutracking.com/
Weather Quality Reporter – http://weather.gladstonefamily.net/site/C0506
