Wifi hotspots on Multimap Thursday, August 16, 2007

By accident I strayed onto Multimap today, rather than Google maps which I invariably use.

Wow. It's been updated with many features since I last looked. Most notably, though they've added some useful overlays to pinpoint things like cash points, parking lots and best of all Wifi hotspots.

The wifi hotspots are both paid and free ones it appears. This may not be the only place you can find hotspots data, but it's certainly a very convenient feature.

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London Bridge is being knocked down Wednesday, May 23, 2007

It's not really, but I read about an excellent google maps mashup today which crawls over UK local authority websites for planning applications and then mashes the results up on a google map.

In beta at present, PlanningAlerts is an excellent idea that allows you to specify an area that you'd like to monitor and then notifies you by email as and when it discovers relevant planning applications in that area. 150 authorities are covered at time of writing (sadly my own isn't yet).

So you'd find out if a planning application was submitted to knock London Bridge down. As soon as I read about the site, I thought of MySociety, and sure enough they are hosting the site.

Google Maps Mania is an excellent source of news on interesting google maps mashups - it amazes me how many inventive applications people have come up with involving location based information.

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