Microsoft Live Search Local/Maps and Ask City both offer aspects of the functionality being introduced with My Maps. Microsoft was first out of the gate with personal mashups, called “Collections.” ...

Google Maps-based tools are a great resource. They can help you out with anything from finding a hotel for your next vacation to discovering what the weather was like on the day you were born. Whether ...

Last night Google launched My Maps, a new Google Map service that makes it easy for anyone to create map mashups for Google Maps and Google Earth. The new tools can be found in a tab on the left side ...

A Google Maps mashup called Chocomap, property of online school Ecole Chocolat, plots specialty chocolate shops around the globe. Yum. Jennifer Guevin was a managing editor at CNET, overseeing the ...

Maps are a mainstay of mashups. If you have geography data of any sort, chances are you might like to slap it on a map. With HeatMapAPI, you have a chance to show something a little more interesting ...

Google has created a tool to let non-technical users create Google Maps mashups, extending this capability beyond the realm of software developers. The feature, called My Maps, is designed to let ...

If you’re in any doubt that it’s worthwhile for web services to invest in APIs for their products here’s something that might sway you. It’s a great-looking ‘Memory Map’ that combines Google Maps with ...

Even before Google gave its blessing, Paul Rademacher was hacking away at the code behind its mapping application so he could mix it with outside real estate data and see exactly where homes listed ...

Mashups that overlay any kind of data on top of an online map are all the rage. But up until now I didn't know that even I, with no coding experience whatsoever, could make a customized map of my own.