Embedding a 3D Google Map

I was reading through the Geospatial Blog Headlines where I discovered that Google finally released a browser plugin for Google Earth. So, I found a site that makes it extremely easy to embed a 3D map in your blog. Check out TakeitWithMe.com to produce the HTML needed to embed your map. See an excerpt from the GeoPDF Map Gallery below. Remember that you must first install the plugin from Google.


Note that this is extremely easy to do and after the small Google install, I was up and running in a matter of minutes.

Yahoo Pipes Blog Mashup

I finally figured this Yahoo Pipes thing out! Apparently, it's been out for a little more than a year now and I have yet to learn about all that it can do. So, after some brief exploration on this Yahoo website I put together a quick mashup of all the geospatial blogs I have found to be interesting over the years. The interface is easy to use and pretty quick to publish the RSS feeds I found on The Map Room website. I think for a future version of this application, I am going to create a mashup that also plots these RSS feeds out to a Yahoo Map. I am not exactly sure how to go about doing this but I think Pipes allows you to geocode the text from each feed. We'll see!!!

Tune back in later to see if I can ever get this to work as an actual mapping widget.