Experience life in San Francisco by video as you select short videos connected to various neighborhoods around town by creator Derek Lu.
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Flash developer Justin Everett-Church used the Yahoo! Maps Flash API and some crazy Flash 8 filters to create really nice looking themed maps - creating a stylized Parchment Pirate Map and a map that looks like a Green Radar Screen. For more info on how he accomplished this, read his blog post.
Rasmus Lerdorf made a live Map of earthquakes with magnitude greater than 2.5 and gives a step by step tutorial detailing how he did it.
Beau Ambur shows the power of Yahoo! Maps with Flash & Events from Upcoming.org to deliver a rich experience. Kudos to Beau for integrating smart features like Traffic and Local Search. Check it out at mashupcoming.com.
An innovative group of Yahoo!'s push AJAX to new levels with a Local Events Browser that blends multiple Yahoo! APIs to put events on an interactive map with useful features like a calendar, tag cloud and built-in image search.
This application combines the Yahoo! AJAX Maps with three brand new Yahoo! REST services: Geocoding, Local Search and Traffic. It also comes with a HowTo on what needs to be done to write a AJAX API Mash-up. A great way to get started.
At iamcaltrain.com Cal Henderson uses the Yahoo! Maps AJAX API, Caltrain schedules and Flickr Photos to help you plan your commute. Find out which train stops have amenities like bike lockers and parking as well as when the next train will arrive.
Robert Oschler uses the Yahoo! Maps JS-Flash API to display Upcoming.org Events along with traffic, ATMs, bars and restaurants.
Dale Federighi uses theYahoo! Maps AJAX API to show off his favorite sneaker shops in his Bay Area Kickz Map . Here Dale takes advantage of custom icons on the map as well as an external menu.
For cities across the US, Michael Hoch puts Flickr photos on Yahoo! Maps using the Flex API. This application is another great example of how Yahoo! Maps APIs give you full control over the look and feel of your mapping application.
Using the Building Block APIs from Yahoo! Maps, this plugin makes it easy for users to geo-tag their blog posts & embed maps into them. This plugin comes with quick links that let you see all your posts on a map. You can save your favorite locations, customize the map sizes.
Andrew Bidochko features several tools he's made to make using Yahoo! Maps APIs easier on his site. His Geo!Suggest, an AJAX interface for the Yahoo! Maps Geocoding API showcases how flexibile the Yahoo! Geocoding API is in working with limited input, and that it provide useful results even with just city name as input, rather than requiring city, state and zipcode. He's also made the source code of GeoSuggest available for public use. He's also done a new tool to generate source code to build a Yahoo! Map via the AJAX API: see the demo and the source code.
Hopstop helps New Yorkers get around and navigate their way efficiently using public transportation. If you click on the subway or bus markers the image of the subway shows up. You can get text directions as well.
Track the progress and path of Hurricane Rita as she makes her way to landfall on the Gulf Coast of the USA. Each data point gives you the stats on her wind speed, pressure and heading. This map is updated every 3 hours when a new report is posted at the Central Florida Hurricane Center.
Yahoo! Weather has started publishing conditions and forecasts in geocoded RSS at http://weather.yahoo.com/rss This Mashup connects those feeds together with the Yahoo! Maps Simple API, to build your own weather map.
That's Trifon's second Mashup. Check out his Yahoo! 360 blog (Y!360 pw verification may be necessary) to learn more about how he put it together.
Phoenix is a great place for soccer tournaments - warm weather, nice fields, easy regional air transportation. This map helps parents and players plan their trip by laying out Phoenix's many soccer fields and nearby hotels, making it easy to plan for the Presidents' Day Tournament in February 2006
Bike maps require back roads and out-of-the-way rest stops. Often the roads don't have names, just state route numbers. And often, there is no address for a rest stop - they can be just wide spots beside the road. Elena did a Mashup that works around all those issues. Here are two more routes for Rockingham, NC and Weddington, NC.
Alan Brown's version of California State Park locations. It's got coordinates, names and web pages for all California State Parks.
Premshee created a Yahoo! Maps hack that shows sites close to a given URL using GeoURL data. Really interesting.
This map is done by Trifon and shows AYSO soccer fields in Palo Alto, California.
Vince Maniago did up a hack to help folks test out XML input files by pasting their content into a web form, with a single click submission to Yahoo! Maps. A gold star goes to Vince for helping make debugging easier.
Sudhish Iyer finds keeping up with regional table tennis matches to be much easier when he can visualize where his next tournament will be. Here is a mashup plotting the USATT-sanctioned table tennis tournaments in Pacific Region.
The Yahoo! Maps Simple API becomes putty in the hands of dedicated hobbyists, as this excellent mashup of dance halls, instruction and suppliers from Alan Brown shows. Click on the dancing figures that mark each location to set them twirling as the info box gives you a window into the world of avid dancers.
Yahoo! hacker Mike Heideman takes on the wider world with this spectacular integration of nationwide data for franchises - fast food, wifi, diesel, hotel, car rental... what more could a coder need on a cross country trek?
Our favorite: links to chow. It may sound like we are only interested in California but we know there's a wider world and the developers from Samizdat Productions prove it by connecting the local area food directories to maps to show exactly where the chow is.
We'll start from the East, in the Big Apple with Food 212 covering Chinatown, Gramercy Park and the West 40s.
Then we head west to Chicago with more food maps covering Chicago cuisine at Food 312 -- Italian in the River North district and Chicago's Chinatown.
The madness continues up in Seattle with Food 206 with maps covering Italian in Capitol Hill, Italian in Pioneer Square/SoDo, Chinese in the International District, and Chinese in the University District.
And finally we have the near-obligatory Bay Area application, with Food415 plotting Italian in North Beach, Chinese in North Beach, and Chinese in Oakland.
Sneakers are a lifestyle for Dale Federighi, and he uses Yahoo! Maps to track down the coolest places to snag hard-to-find footwear like vintage Adidas and Nikes - for full-on Beastie Boy style.
Jamie Glenn also plotted home sales data for over 200 zip codes in the Bay Area from May 2004 to May 2005. Blue means going up month over month, orange means going down. Click on them to see the year over year details. This application will provide amusement for people all over the world, marveling at housing prices in the Bay Area.
Dog lover and code fiend Jamie Glenn has a plot of all of the dog parks in San Francisco, CA. Click them for to details of the park with location, hours, and amenities. The only thing we need now is a mashup for Dogster.
Asher Blum takes his mix up in both directions - displaying xml on the Yahoo! Maps page and encasing the data in a frame to display on his own site. This application shows the past and upcoming street maintenance in Sunnyvale, CA.
Akshay Java wrote an application which displays locations of Yahoo! News on maps.
This Greasemonkey script lets you display Craigslist housing locations on Yahoo! Maps, giving you a clear understanding of where each listing lies.
A plot of local classifieds from Southern Maryland Online.
The community leaders behind "Go BayView", a community revival plan, put their local businesses in context to help get the word out about supporting local entrepreneurs.
Blogdigger's Greg Gershman put together a mashup to plot Chicago-area bloggers.
Joe Crawford at San Diego Bloggers did the same.
Hackers in Seattle experiment with creating their own driving directions and custom maps with the use of a handheld GPS device.
Follow in the path of the characters from the film Sideways in their adventures around Santa Barbara.
An excellent demo of Web 2.0 ideas featuring live traffic camera views from a number of points around the Bay Area.
What every Bay Area resident (and Yahoo!) needs to know: Where is the closest Fry's and how do I get there?
The Oklahoma Beagle Rescue society maps out their dogs in foster homes as they wait for adoption.
Portrero Hill in San Francisco is a nice place to live with great views but some crime, which we have plotted here.
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