Welcome to all NPR listeners! Please view our Mashups and Tools Index, linked along the right side of this blog, for many examples of the great things that people are creating using Google Maps!
(NPR Article Page: Tailor-made Cartography with Google Maps)
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I'll be on the National Public Radio (NPR) show "All Things Considered" today chatting with Robert Siegel about my Google Maps Mania blog and the Google Maps mashup craze. If you have the chance, listen live to an NPR station that carries this show or check this site at approximately 7:30ET for an audio stream of the interview.NPR Creates a Google Maps mashup of their own!
Looking for your nearest NPR station? NPR has created a very unique Google Maps mashup for listeners to locate an NPR station in their local area. The mashup builds on the existing station search that lets your filter stations by city, zip code or call letters. You now have the ability to "Google Map" your search results or plot an individual station in the list to a Google Map. The really cool part about this mashup is that it takes the signal strength of the station and creates circular bands around the station. This allows you to map the stations in your area or even help in planning a road trip across many states to determine what frequency to call up on your car radio. This is an "awesome" mashup!Technorati Tags: [NPR], [National Public Radio], [Robert Siegel], [mashup], [Mike Pegg], [Google Local], [Google Maps], [Google Maps Mania]
13 comments:
Uhh...where is the link to the NPR mashup?
Thanks Frank... It's linked now. This can only be blamed on my lack of coffee prior to posting this! :)
Just though I'd say hi. I happened to be listening in on the NPR broadcast this evening (in Tampa Bay, FL). It was quite an interesting broadcast and thought I'd share that someone actually listened :)
Just heard the NPR broadcast via ABC News Radio here in Sydney, Australia. Very nice segment.
I did a quick search of your mashups and couldn't find one that I use from time to time. Some ham radio operators hook their GPS boxes into their radio sets to beacon their positions to the ether and the internet. It's called APRS (Automatic Position Reporting System)
One such site that displays these position beacons is:
http://www.tech-software.net/findu.php
For example, if you enter vk2* in the "location of" box, you'll see a list of all radio hams operating in VK2 (New South Wales, Australia). Click on one and you'll see satellite image showing the last reported position of the selected station.
Cheers,
Richard (ham radio station VK2SKY)
I heard the NPR broadcast and think you did a great job communicating the power of mashups.
One nitpicking comment though, when describing the Dublin train mash up you said clicking on 'satellite' would show a picture of the train at its current location. Really? Google's now streaming real-time satellite imagery?
great job on npr! loved it.
Great interview, Mike. Found your site a couple weeks ago and am already an addict. OK, now dish. What's Robert Siegle like?
I heard your broadcast on NPR as well, here in Colorado. Interesting little tidbit of information to gain access to many interesting tidbits of information. I actually found your blog while googling the map that allows you to dig to the other side of the world. All these years I've been told I'd end up in China if I were to do such a thing, only to find out they were wrong all along!
I heard your broadcast on NPR as well, here in Colorado. Interesting little tidbit of information to gain access to many interesting tidbits of information. I actually found your blog while googling the map that allows you to dig to the other side of the world. All these years I've been told I'd end up in China if I were to do such a thing, only to find out they were wrong all along!
Thanks, this is great!
(From South Carolina, I end up in the Indian Ocean.)
Nice job on the NPR interview. Searching Google maps (especially the satellite option) is a favorite pastime. Thanks for the info on mashups. Very cool (if not always useful).
NPR Mashup could be better...
show ALL all stations within range along a (google map, naturally) driving route.
Mace
Congratulations on the NPR interview, I listened to the archived segment, you did a wonderful job.
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