These Mash-ups are cool (though I haven't had a chance to look at them all). I haven't quite thought of an application yet, though the obvious would be the mapping of all the libraries in your system.
Is there a clearinghouse, rss feed, search engine for Mash-ups? Since so many are being made now, how does one find one? Would one pop up if I google census map and sex offenders in Madison? Or Thai restaurants and Chicago? Like the guy said in the YouTube: singles in my zip code? I have had a few reference questions where having a mash-up would be the answer to the question.
Oh, I tried to put my favorite Thai restaurant on our map, but I don't think I was successful. Once again, something that was probably easy for the youngsters in the group, was not in the least for me. I'll blame it on either map builder or my computer...map builder had no real instructions and though I did watch the screencast, but my screen looked a little different. I'll check tomorrow though. Maybe it will be there!
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Hi Leereer,
That's a good question about mash-ups - and I'll pass it along to the PP Coordinators as I don't have an answer. I do have an answer about your Thai restaurant, though. I checked the blog and it looked like some locations were being deleted so we're just using Mapbuilder.net as a sandbox. Your location may not show up.
Keep on playing!
Jean
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