Google I/O 2009 – Performance Tips for Geo API Mashups Pamela Fox, Marcelo Camelo, Sasha Aickin This talk will provide tips on reducing latency for your maps mashup, discussing topics like marker management, clustering, custom tiles, static maps, flash maps, encoded polys, light markers, latency oriented features of the JavaScript Maps API, and more. For presentation slides and all I/O sessions, please go to: code.google.com/events/io/sessions.html
Edison on The Mix
“Genius is 1% inspiration and
99% perspiration.”
–Thomas Edison (1847–1931)
American inventor and salesman
frequently worked more than 40 hours straight
What if…
John and Abigail Adams had been more concerned with themselves and work/life balance than creating a democracy?
What if… Abraham Lincoln (born on 2/12… coincidence? maybe) had quit trying after having a business go under and losing his first local legislative race (and then 3 congressional races and 2 senatorial races)?
What if… Martin Luther King didn’t have a dream and played it safe (and didn’t travel over 6 million miles giving more than 2500 speeches). What if he thought he was too young to have an impact (he did everything he did in a life of only 39 years)?
What if… Gandhi, Teresa, Roosevelt, Ford, Disney, Walton, Gates, Winfrey, Jobs, Stewart, and Ash hadn’t stepped up and worked hard. (What if the thousands of people who supported them hadn’t?) What if your police, military, firefighters didn’t?
What if… No one pushed it, risked it, and pushed it again (and again)?
Be obligated to your world (your customers, your people).
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Tracking illegal mines in Google Earth
The extent of illegal mining in the state could be tracked from the 
Google Earth software, by comparing the google images with the Regional plan, 2021, a senior environmentalist and Padmashri and Padma Bhushan awardee Prof Madhav Gadgil said today.
Prof Madhav Gadgil, heading Ministry of Environment and Forest’s panel on Western Ghat, said that the virtual pictures of all the mines are very clearly seen on Google earth.
“Everybody can see it and find out how much is illegal,” he told a convention at Dona Paula, near here today.
“Regional Plan 2021, a document prepared by State government, shows legal borders of the mines. If we compare the RP with Google images, we can come to know about the illegal mining,” he added.
Gadgil was participating in the convention of Goan youth on ‘Environment and Developj ment’, organised by Centre for Environment Education, an NGO and the Goa Golden Jubilee Development Council.
The environmentalist commented that each citizen of the state has a right to ask government about the illegal mining.
By DigitalGoa