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What’s the need to go to the florist when you can collect in a city full of open gardens?

Here is a map of freely available flowers in Toulouse:

How to get a virtual world wall map similar to those you can find in most of students flat? with small pins on it to celebrate reminders of excellent moments abroad?

Using google map, it’s possible to add this pins (markers) on the map, and it’s possible to add lines between these markers, so everything is there to implement basic functionnalities.

Once the basics are done, the next steps could be more interesting: how wirtual maps can extend the experience?

• Add a slider to navigate thought time, David’s idea with his students about extending google maps with history layers (see google market sliders);
• Have the possibility to add future markers, so your friends - or other people - can see your plans for coming weeks. Serious privacy issues, but all the tracklog concept lay on these issues;
• Creating a multi-layer map with friends or other people on it, there we are really near a Global Surveillance concept;
• Color change on path, depending on the transport - plane, foot, bicycle, … - or relate to the time slider with a nice gradient.

Interesting links around the same idea:

• http://www.tinymap.net/
• http://www.mapdaze.com/index.php
• Google maps to map your packages
• Track your packages with Google Map
• Hurricane map
• http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/