Clever Web developers create Google Maps aggregate sites
Shortly after the launch of its maps feature last spring, Google provided techies with a free tool kit - called an application programmer interface or API - so developers could manipulate the mapping information to give it a new purpose. The idea took off, leading to hundreds of websites mapping such things as sex offenders’ homes, cheap gas and celebrity homes.
(Canadian Press via Canada.com)
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