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Thank you tulrich for blogging (and creating ?) the Google Earth FireFox Plug-in and the Google Earth Monster Milk Float Game !

You can write Google Earth Plug-in apps using Javascript, including game-like things. It's pretty fun. It also integrates smoothly with Google Maps API sites; basically you just enable 3D, and most things will magically work.

http://www.google.com/earth/plugin/examples/milktruck/

One Planet Living in Sutton is an ever-evolving programme of projects that will cover all of the One Planet Living principles and deliver the Sustainability Action Plan. We work with many partners and share knowledge to ensure that together we come up with the right solutions for a sustainable Sutton.

One Planet Living in Sutton is a hugely ambitious programme of work - getting the whole borough from a 3 planet level to a 1 planet level will take imagination, hard work and innovation from every resident, business and organisation in Sutton as well as input from organisations with expertise in each of the principles.

But its not all hard work - we hope that it will be fun, inspirational and great for building community spirit.

One Planet Living in Sutton are using OpenStreetMap and a number of Web 2.0 sites to spread their message !

Towards One Planet Living in Sutton_1212658807234

• Flickr   
  
• YouTube    
  
• BioRegional    
• Wordpress

Free World Outline Maps have taken public domain maps from The University of Texas, Austin, USA and created creative commons free libre open maps that you can download and use !

They also have a great paint-your-own map webpage

Upload your photos to Panoramio and geotag them !

Then add the following into an iframe on your site

• k = kind of map, 0 = map, 1 = satellite, 2 = hybrid
• user = youruserid !

Learn about the Web Services standards REST and JSON by using Google Panoramio and just your web browser !

Using the Google Panoramio API you can display the photos from Panoramio on your own web site. Geolocated photos from Panoramio are great to enrich your maps or illustrate information where location is a important factor (real estate sites, hotels and vacation sites, routes & trails...).

Here's how you'd get some photos of London (X=~0,Y=~51)

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/8075745

This REST call returns a JSON result set that you can view in your browser and cut and paste photo URLs from :

{"count": 42259,
 "photos":
 [
 { "photo_id": 4337937, "photo_title": "Sir Tatton Sykes Monument", "photo_url": "http://www.panoramio.com/photo/4337937", "photo_file_url": "http://mw2.google.com/mw- panoramio/photos/medium/4337937.jpg", "longitude": -0.537515, "latitude": 54.042054, "width": 270, "height": 500, "upload_date": "31 August 2007", "owner_id": 278681, "owner_name":  "G3ZZP", "owner_url": "http://www.panoramio.com/user/278681" }
,
 { "photo_id": 51502, "photo_title": "eclipse", "photo_url": "http://www.panoramio.com/photo/51502", "photo_file_url": "http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/51502.jpg",  "longitude": -0.121665, "latitude": 51.500969, "width": 500, "height": 375, "upload_date": "24 September 2006", "owner_id": 6645, "owner_name": "JesusVillalba", "owner_url":  "http://www.panoramio.com/user/6645" }
 ]
}

For more help see http://www.panoramio.com/help/

ACME GeoRSS Map Viewer

Synopsis

This is a Google Maps app that displays GeoRSS files. It implements two different varieties of GeoRSS, plus all of Yahoo!'s enhancements to GeoRSS including address geocoding, plus a couple of things from basic RSS that Yahoo! missed. Feel free to use it with your own GeoRSS and Yahoo! Simple Map files.

Yahoo! MapMixer lets you mashup your maps with the Yahoo Maps API !

http://maps.yahoo.com/mapmixer

KML is a file format used to display geographic data in an Earth browser, such as Google Earth, Google Maps, and Google Maps for mobile. KML uses a tag-based structure with nested elements and attributes and is based on the XML standard.

• http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/
• http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kml_tut.html
• http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kml_21tutorial.html

frappr

http://www.dopplr.com/main/about is so new you can't even register for it yet !

Dopplr is an online service for frequent travellers. It was created by an international team of world travellers as a tool for our own use. If you travel more than five times a year and have friends who do as well, then Dopplr is for you.