Google Maps is very nicely done. If you haven't tried it out, you should. But, there's a couple features it doesn't have that I wish it had. This is where Greasemonkey can really shine. The two ideas: Automatically follow a plotted route and add more address markers to an existing map. Today, someone posted an implementation of a userscript that adds the route following feature to Google Maps. Another Google Maps userscript, this one to generate a map with predefined set of points on it, was also posted.
So, all of this activity inspired me to implement my second idea (since Prakash pleasingly did the first one for me). I present yet another userscript: Google Maps: Add Waypoint. It adds a second text entry box which if an exact address is typed into it, it adds a point on the map. In "local search" mode, there is no description of the point, but in the standard maps mode, the address is shown.
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I am a father, board gamer and software engineer.
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I am a father, board gamer and software engineer.
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I am an avid board gamer. I am one of the (volunteer) admins of BoardGameGeek, maintainer of the GameStoreDB, board game blogger, and gaming software geek.Professional
I am a staff software engineer at Google. Previously, I was the CTO at an 802.11 location and security company, Newbury Networks in Boston. In June, 1999 I received my Masters degree from the MIT Media Lab. I graduated from MIT (undergraduate) in June, 1997, in physics. Prior to that I was CTO of net.Genesis from 1994 to 1996.While at MIT, I was one of the three members of the Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) who set up www.mit.edu in the spring of 1993. I am also a former/inactive member of the Apache group, a volunteer group of developers of Apache, the world's most popular web server.
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Greasemonkey for Google Maps
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