Mapping resources

Some links:

• Get To Grips with Slippy Maps - a 24 ways tutorial using Mapstraction, a JavaScript mapping abstraction library which supports GeoRSS and multiple services.


• The mashup-ready GeoCommons.


• How to convert a street address to longitude and latitude (geocoding) via web services - the article focuses on consuming GeoCoder.us services with C# (using XmlDocument.Load()), and makes mention also of Yahoo! Maps GeoCoding API, a similar service.

Also last weekend, I discovered Google Maps added more street data to Malaysian maps. The maps are now more detailed, and complete with street names, down to small lorong-lorong in the city (here in the capital, and it looks like Malaysian small towns are catching up too). Here's an idea; Mashup Malaysian food blogger, Masak-masak's delicious looking posts into a map-enabled dining guide of the Klang Valley!

Previously on this blog:
Easily get maps on Facebook with Popfly
Open source mapping with OpenLayers and OpenStreetMap
Drawing a Virtual Earth map with Yahoo! Pipes data

Elsewhere, an interesting article:
The Rise Of Hyperlocal Information