Plotted.com - Maps and Satellite Imagery

[David]

www.plotted.com

A simple maping program that uses Google Maps API.

What I did was take Google Maps API, which only recognizes Longitude and Latitude coordinates and impliment it a geocode database of the United States. So when you enter an address, that address is being located in a 700mb database of every address in America to find its Long. and Lat. coordinates.
Once it finds the coordinates it than queries Googles API with them. A map is then displayed.

I also made an API of my own for webmasters to use,
www.plotted.com/api, which will make putting maps or satellite imagery on your website very easy. Even if you know nothing about PHP, JavaScript or anything, just simple HTML is required to use the API.

I suggest that if you want to put a map or a satellite image on your website, check it out. Or you could even do your own address lookup like the main page. Check it out.


www.plotted.com
www.plotted.com/api

 

[GJ]

What do you want us to do?? Review the design??

 

[mcfry]

Sounds cool, but the bottom line is that you haven't done anything to improve upon the services already offered. Take a look at http://www.housingmaps.com/ or http://www.chicagocrime.org/ for creative implementations of Google Maps's API.

Ed

 

[David]

Actually, the purpose of the site is to let other people access google maps who wouldn't know howto code with the API. If you check out www.plotted.com/api that is pretty much the whole purpose.

 

[mcfry]

Ah, got it, you're just providing free access to the geocode DB. Neat stuff :D

 

[bhyraj]

I see map. more useful

 

[David]

map more useful??

Yea, well, the example I used somewhere else was, a travel blogger who wouldn't know howto code with the google maps API or even access the Geocoder.us DB but wants to put a map or satellite image on his blog of where he has been or where he is. A simple line of code could do that with no programing knowledge at all.

 

[StudioWorks]

I would have to say congrats to Google :D

- SW

 

[Petter]

I can't say there is much of a deisgn....

 

[David]

Not meant to be a website for "design" but rather practicality.