Google I/O – Performance Tips for Geo API Mashups

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

http://www.youtube.com/v/zI8at1EmJjA?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata

WeatherSpark Beta

WeatherSpark Beta– Historical weather patterns visualised

An excellent Google maps mashup -an early contender for best gmap 2011.

WeatherSpark Beta

“WeatherSpark is a pretty amazing Google Map of current and historical weather conditions. The site lets you view the historical records of over 4,000 weather stations.”


example above
http://weatherspark.com/#!graphs;ws=28726;t=321909;mspp=37115493

Climate Patterns
WeatherSpark Climate Beta

If you are more interested in today’s weather you can just center the map on your location and view the current temperature and the current precipitation radar

http://weatherspark.com/#

source:
googlemapsmania