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I just created a Google Gadget http://www.mibazaar.com/localnews/hometownusa.xml.

This Gadget takes your US Zip Code input and takes you to a Google Maps Mashups page where it shows you the latest news, Traffic, Weather, Dining, Movies, Golf in the Zip Code you have entered.

I looked at the code for driving directions Google Gadget and modified it for my Hometown USA Google Gadget.

I also had to modify my Google Maps Mashup so that it could read in the Zip Code passed from external source. I removed the Form code and instead inserted the follwowing PHP code

$echovar = “zipCodeVal = “.$inputZip.”;”;
echo $echovar;
I then process the value in inputZip (passed in from external source) to map out News, Traffic, Weather, Dining, Movies, Golf

I have submitted this Gadget to Google. Let’s see if they include it in their directory.

My Google Maps Mashup of Top 99 Women made it to Cool Site of the Day (8/13) at askmen.com. A Big Thank you to the folks at Askmen.com

Check out this great mashup I came across at ProgrammableWeb

It is a flight simulator on Google Maps. Select the city from a drop down list box and then use the arrow keys to control the flight direction,altitude. You can also control the speed using the keyboard.

And this is a “resume mashup”. The creator might have already found a job by now. Wow what a talent.

Interesting post at Google Earth Blog on Hurricane Tracker (Tracking the Tropical Depression Chris and other Tropical Storms) on Google Earth.

I copied the kmz file location and did a paste in the search box at maps.google.com and then generated this link and now you have the Hurricane Tracker shown on Google Maps. Click on the link, its pretty neat.
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There was a tremendous surge in Traffic to my site today at http://www.mibazaar.com/top99women.

I think it was because of the following blogs mentioning the Top 99 Women Mashup. A Big Thank You to the following blogs/sites

ueba.com.br

googlesystem.blogspot.com

blog.outer-court.com

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Thanks to Mike Pegg of GoogleMapsMania and John Musser of ProgrammableWeb for mentioning my Top 99 Women Google Maps Mashup

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Here’s Top 99 Women on Google Maps. This list was compiled from askmen.com. The map shows where the Top 99 Women originally are from.

For geocoding I used Yahoo Geocoding (International).

I have also included Youtube videos for some of them like Jessica Alba, Angelina Jolie, Aishwarya Rai, Jennifer Aniston, Sienna Miller, Natalie Portman, Lindsay Lohan, Shania Twain.

I have created a Google Maps Mashup of Mumbai Bomb Blasts. Check it out at: mibazaar (Miike Pegg of Google Maps Mania makes a mention of this Mashup in his blog)

I put this together by inputting the bomb blast locations into a MySQL Database and then exporting it in XML format, to Javascript.

Since I grew up in Mumbai, I was kind of familiar with where the railway stations were. So I used a mapping tool http://www.mibazaar.com/testlatlng.html to get Latitude/Longitude. In conjunction with this I referenced wiki on Mumbai Railway Stations, since I could not recollect where certain railway stations were heading North on Suburban Western Railway (It’s been years since I left Bombay/Mumbai).

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Couple of months back I had created a Google Maps Mashup of RSS Feeds from New York Times and RSS Feeds from Human Rights Watch Group.

Couple of days back I got a call from the folks at Human Rights Watch Group. They were looking for suggestions from Geo Developers as to what else can they do to make their data more easily accessible so that Developers can tap into their data and create mashups.
They were looking for suggestions as to kind of RSS Feeds or API’s developers would be interested in. If you have any suggestions or ideas do post a comment and I will pass it along.

I had created a mashup of Google Maps + US Presidents and their Birth Places, early during the year. Now July 4th is upon us so thought I would mention it again. Check the mashup here.
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