There are many times I want to leverage jQuery’s strengths to create a custom Google Maps mashup. In this tutorial, I will walk you through how to get started using jQuery inside the Google Maps environment. I will assume nothing, and explain each piece in detail.

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Leaflet is a modern, lightweight BSD-licensed JavaScript library for making tile-based interactive maps for both desktop and mobile web browsers, developed by CloudMade to form the core of its next generation JavaScript API.

It is built from the ground up to work efficiently and smoothly on both platforms, utilizing cutting-edge technologies included in HTML5. Its top priorities are usability, performance, small size, A-grade browser support, flexibility and easy to use API. The OOP-based code of the library is designed to be modular, extensible and very easy to understand.

How DataSF.org, which publishes dozens of official data sets, is starting to transform life and politics in San Francisco

At 1,040 inhabitants per square kilometre (404/mi2), the Netherlands is one of the most densely populated nations in the world (1). The country’s population density, over 23 times the global average, is a factor in the national discussion on immigration, arming proponents of stricter rules with the slogan “Nederland is vol” (”The Netherlands is full”). While that sounds conversation-stoppingly irrefutable, the premise of that particular political slogan is easily proved wrong – with these maps.

"Functional visualizations are more than innovative statistical analyses and computational algorithms. They must make sense to the user and require a visual language system that uses colour, shape, line, hierarchy and composition to communicate clearly and appropriately, much like the alphabetic and character-based languages used worldwide between humans." Matt Woolman Digital Information Graphics Goal VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project's main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web. I truly hope this space can inspire, motivate and enlighten any person doing research on this field.

OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. It is made by people like you. OpenStreetMap allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from

Wat doe je als projectleider wanneer de wethouder bij je komt en een overzicht van alle energielabels van de Amsterdamse gemeentelijke gebouwen wil? Hoe kom je aan deze informatie? En hoe kan een 2.0-werkwijze je hierbij helpen? In de meeste gevallen stuur je e-mails naar alle gebouwenbeheerders en je belt diverse partijen op. Maar wat doe je als e-mails sturen en bellen niet helpt? Wat doe je als de informatie moeilijk te verkrijgen is en verspreid is over alle diensten en stadsdelen van de stad Amsterdam?

At the recent State of the Map conference we unveiled our plans for an OpenStreetMap editor: Mapzen. Mapzen is a web based map editing tool that will make it far easier for new-commers to OpenStreetMap to get started editing and creating maps.

Due to hefty 3G roaming rates, Apple’s Maps app just won’t cut it when you’re out of the country. The oMap app lets you download maps for offline viewing — dodging a shocking bill post-vacation.

One of the first augmented reality apps to go live in the iPhone AppStore. Forget boring 2D tube maps! Try this amazing new application that tells Londoners where their nearest tube station is via their iPhones video function.

Slate's Moneybox has an interactive map that shows job creation and loss throughout the US for the past two years. Watching it flow through each month's up and down definitely made the employment situation in the country clearer to me. Like any great visualization image and the legend make it very clear what's happening.

Het Groene Hart is het grootste nationale landschap van Nederland. Het Groene Hart is een prachtig maar kwetsbaar gebied, midden in de drukke Randstad. Het is van groot belang om de kernkwaliteiten van het Groene Hart (landschappelijke diversiteit, openheid, rust en stilte, veenweidekarakter) te beschermen en te ontwikkelen, en ‘verrommeling’ tegen te gaan. De Kwaliteitsatlas Groene Hart biedt daarvoor houvast en inspiratie. De atlas geeft inzicht in de bestaande kaders en regelgeving (beleid). Daarnaast beschrijft de atlas de specifieke kwaliteiten van het landschap in de deelgebieden van het Groene Hart, en de opgaven per deelgebied (gebieden).

OpenLayers makes it easy to put a dynamic map in any web page. It can display map tiles and markers loaded from any source. MetaCarta developed the initial version of OpenLayers and gave it to the public to further the use of geographic information of all kinds. OpenLayers is completely free, Open Source JavaScript, released under a BSD-style License.

Normally Sampsonia Way is a fairly unassuming street, but when Ben Kinsley and Robin Hewlet, two art school grads from Carnegie Mellon University, found out that the Google Maps Street Team was coming to town, they decided to make things more interesting.

The Minimap Addon gives you a suite of in-built maps and mapping tools for your web browser. Drag and Drop addresses or address links you find on web pages to view their location in the Map Sidebar, or by manually adding locations. Preview addresses from within any webpage using the Map Panel and get larger scale maps with the Map Tab.

Vergunningenkaart.nl toont actuele gemeentelijke vergunningaanvragen op Google Maps. Zo zie je in één oogopslag wie er bij jou in de buurt bijvoorbeeld een bouw- of kapvergunning heeft aangevraagd.

We-Travel is a personal initiative to develop a free navigation solution for Java enabled mobile phones.

See the world in a new way with Nokia Maps. With downloadable maps for more than 200 countries, and millions of points of interest to be discovered, there are treasures to be found and shared.

Viking is a free/open source program to manage GPS data. You can import and plot tracks and waypoints, show Google maps and/or Terraserver maps under it, download geocaches for an area on the map, make new tracks and waypoints, see real-time GPS position,

GPicSync automatically inserts location in your photos metadata so they can also be used with any 'geocode aware' application like Picasa/Google Earth, Flickr, loc.alize.us, etc.

Google Earth has three new layers from NASA (you can find them in the Featured Content folder): astronaut photos of the Earth, satellite imagery for geographic phenomena like the tsunami from 2004 that devastated countries around the Indian Ocean and Eart

The implications of Google Maps' Street View are interesting. It's probably all legal, but it can be considered an invasion of privacy by a recognizable person. (One step further: imagine Google Earth offering more detailed zoom levels...)

An unofficial Google Maps blog tracking the websites, ideas and tools being influenced by Google Maps.

"CamMap.nl biedt een geografisch overzicht van de buitenshuis geplaatste of gerichte webcam's in Nederland." Minimaal 200 webcams aangegeven op de kaart van Nederland, op 25 meter nauwkeurig...

"Breathing Earth is a visual, real-time simulation of the CO2 emission rates, birth rates and death rates of every country in the world."