{"id":171,"date":"2005-02-28T09:55:31","date_gmt":"2005-02-28T14:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=171"},"modified":"2005-02-28T10:18:52","modified_gmt":"2005-02-28T15:18:52","slug":"google-maps-oh-the-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/2005\/02\/28\/google-maps-oh-the-possibilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps:  Oh the possibilities!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I wrote my <a href=\"http:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/index.php?p=159\">first post<\/a> on how excited I was about Google Maps, I had no earthly idea what the broad capabilities of the application were.  I don&#8217;t think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/05\/02\/18\/08OPstrategic_1.html\">Jon Udell<\/a> even did at first, but he quickly discovered some really amazing stuff and illuminates these possibilities for us with fantastic screencasts (using my favorite program, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techsmith.com\/\">Camtasia<\/a>).  Udell first created a <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.infoworld.com\/udell\/gems\/googleMaps.html\">screencast about using Javascript<\/a> to make driving directions come alive.  All it takes is a little bit of javascript to animate a route, and Jon is also nice enough to <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.infoworld.com\/udell\/2005\/02\/17.html#a1179\">show us how<\/a>.  He also <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.infoworld.com\/udell\/2005\/02\/25.html#a1185\">describes using GPS data<\/a> in Google Maps to &#8220;annotate the world&#8221;.  It&#8217;s all really amazing, and he is certainly right that we (or at least I) will never be using Mapquest again.  I&#8217;ve been using Google Maps every day to find fabulous bakeries in Chicago, and I&#8217;m begining to wonder how I ever lived with crappy mapping programs before this.  Thanks Google and thanks Jon for broadening our horizons!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I wrote my first post on how excited I was about Google Maps, I had no earthly idea what the broad capabilities of the application were. I don&#8217;t think&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reference","category-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}