Simon Willison’s Weblog

Google apps for your newsroom. How the LJ World team use online tools like Google Spreadsheet, Swivel, ManyEyes and Google MyMaps to collaborate with the newsroom and build data-heavy applications even faster.

# 7th January 2008, 9:24 pm / collaboration, django, google, google-calendar, google-docs, google-maps, journalism, ljworld, manyeyes, matt-croydon, mymaps, news, newsroom

Brighton geek venues. Nat’s latest project: a neat Google Maps mashup listing venues for geek events in Brighton, managed using Google MyMaps to edit a KML file.

# 16th August 2007, 1:38 am / brighton, geek, google, google-maps, googlemymaps, kml, mashup, mymaps, natalie-downe

Google My Maps: Bodeans. I’ve been talking about how useful a simple tool for creating custom maps would be for ages... looks like Google beat me to it. Here’s one I created showing the location of Bodeans, an excellent Kansas-style BBQ joint in Soho, London. It’s a shame the URLs suck.

# 5th April 2007, 5:40 pm / bbq, bodeans, google, google-maps, london, maps, mymaps, soho