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tinymap.net

Recently I've had some fun building tinymap.net which is best described as tinyurl for Google maps. You scribble on the map, and then you get a short URL to it. For example, to see my average trip to work go to http://www.tinymap.net/MkJVFx77KSX/.

I of course did no market research or planning and simply started coding, and have since found a few other similar (and fairly cool) sites such as Quikmaps and wayfaring. My site certainly has them beat in the KISS stakes, although it does involve a mashup, some AJAX and has been tagged a lot on del.icio.us so I'm claiming it is Web 2.0!

posted at: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:45 | in /web | permalink | add comment (3 others)

Posted by Tony Breeds at Thu Feb 22 09:56:06 2007

Nice.  It's has some nice improvements over
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/ . I couldn't see anyway to remove a waypoint once added.  People (like me) make mistakes ;P

Posted by Peter Wienand at Sun Feb 25 23:28:53 2007

To delete a waypoint, just click on it and choose delete.

Fun to use when you are just dying to know the distance between two points. My fiancee just figured out she rode 14km each day to and from uni when she was studying in Germany.

Posted by essays at Wed Nov 11 03:56:33 2009

good service! thanks for sharing!!

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