The Google Maps Platform Awards

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To mark two decades of mapping innovation, Google has announced the Google Maps Platform Awards, a new program created to celebrate the developers and innovators who have shaped the digital mapping landscape over the past 20 years. For those who build with geospatial tools, APIs, and data this is your opportunity to showcase your best work.Google aims to recognize the impact that developers have Maps Mania… more →
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Multimodal Support in Chrome’s Built-in AI

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It’s been a few weeks since I blogged about Chrome’s built-in AI efforts, but with Google IO going this week there’s been a lot of announcements and updates. You can find a great writeup of recent changes on the Chrome blog: "AI APIs are in stable and origin trials, with new Early Preview Program APIs". One feature that I’ve been excited the most about has finally been made available, multimodal prompting. This lets you use both image and audio data for prompts. Now, remember, this is all still early preview and will likely change before release, but it’s pretty promising. As I’ve mentioned before, the Chrome team is asking folks to join the EPP (early... more →
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Map Any Event in History (or Fiction)

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The Battle of Hastings mapped by th Map Simulation Platform The Map Simulation Platform is a hugely ambitious project that uses AI to simulate text prompts in 3D on an interactive map. It employs natural language processing to interpret a prompt and render it on a geographical canvas. It’s similar to a text-to-image AI tool, except here the output is a dynamic, map-based scenario rather Maps Mania… more →
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My New Role – API Evangelist at Foxit

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As I mentioned on the blog a few weeks ago, I (finally) landed a new job. The market is beyond tough right now, so I’m very happy that I was able to land a new role, especially one that’s going to be just about perfect for me – API Evangelist for Foxit. I’ll be talking more about my role and what I’m covering later (we’ve got some really cool stuff brewing!) but for now, I can’t wait to get busy again! Raymond Camden… more →
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JavaScript in the morning, JavaScript in the evening…

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I’ve been a huge fan of the Intl spec for sometime, having done multiple presentations and blog posts on the topic. Every time I think I’ve explored it completely, I come across another interesting gem. Today I’m going to share one that is possibly not something you would use, but it’s a curious feature of the spec I wanted to dig more into. When formatting dates with Intl.DateTimeFormat, you’ve got a large set of customizations you can use to display dates exactly as you want. I recently came across an interesting part of the formatting options, dayPeriod. According to MDN, this specifies: The formatting style used for day periods like “in the morning”,... more →
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The Meaning Behind Our Place Names

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Have you ever walked down a street and wondered where its name came from? Was it named after a historical figure, a local landmark, or an ancient word lost to time? The Open Etymology Map helps answer these questions by uncovering the stories behind place names – using data from OpenStreetMap and Wikidata.🏷 The Etymology Tag in OpenStreetMapThe OpenStreetMap (OSM) project includes an ‘etymology Maps Mania… more →
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Sending an Alert for Short Wait Time at Disney

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Yesterday I had some fun with a web app that made use of APIs to report on rides with the shortest wait times at amusement parks. This was done via the excellent, and free, Queue Times service. The application I built let you select a park, and then rides were displayed sorted by the shortest wait time. While working with the API, I also had another idea for a useful service – notifications for short wait times. Imagine you’re at Disney, or any amusement park, and while you’re there, you would like to be notified when rides have a short wait time. How could you automate this? For now, let’s skip the ‘hard part’ of imagining the service that would let you sign... more →
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A Panorama of Victorian London

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The city of London has inspired many beautiful panoramic maps over the centuries, each lovingly crafted by talented artists. Interestingly, these panoramas almost always share a common perspective – north from the south side of the River Thames. This same viewpoint is used in Frederick James Smyth’s 1844 Panorama of London.Exeter University’s Digital Humanities Lab has created an interactive Maps Mania… more →
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