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A Journey to a Thousand Maps Begins With an Open Code

A Google map is no longer just a Google map. An army of programmers, most of them doing it just for fun, has grabbed the software code that generates the distinctive maps with their drop-shadowed virtual pushpins, and combined it with other data like the locations of potholes, taco trucks and U.F.O. sightings, and even the sites of murders and muggings.

Read the whole story at The New York Times, October 20, 2005 »

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