Google Maps Mania: More Google Maps Creation Tools and Resources


Google Maps Creation Tools:
JoeMap
Ning
Google Map Maker
CSV2Map - Converts csv into Google Maps API html page and Google Earth kml
Web 2.0: Introduction to Mash-ups
Google Maps Course (Chinese) (Use BabelFish page translator)
GeospatialTraning.com Google Maps Training CD

More Creation Tools are here
Odds and Ends:

HowStuffWorks.com - How Google Earth Works
Talk Maps - Lets you to inform other Google Talk users where you are

Send your Google Earth location by email - Simple web app to send a message to someone with a Google Earth (KML) file attached
Extensions, Scripts & Plugins:

Geotagging Flickr with Google Maps and Greasemonkey Part 2
GMaps Big Red Dot - This script helps you point out little details dumping a Big Red Dot in the viewport's center
TorontoMLS Google Maps - Highlight addresses in TorontoMLS for Google Maps
Firefox PhotoMap Plugin
TReND MLS Script - Wraps TReND MLS addresses with a link to Google Maps.
GeoRSS Extension - Integrates basic GeoRSS support directly into Google Maps
MapIT Firefox extension - Mapit puts an option in your context menu that comes up when you right click on a web page
Google Maps Module - for Xoops.com
Google Maps Module - for CommunityServer.org
Related to the Google Maps API:

Google Maps API Blog Posts:

Revision 2.38 of API v2
Another update on the upcoming API v2
Update on the upcoming API v2
Google Maps API Google Group: Coming soon to Google Maps: SVG support - "Goodbye polyline tiles, hello SVG graphics for Firefox and other standards based browsers"
Blog Post: Google Maps v2 to Support SVG
Blog Post: Google Maps Gotchas
Blog Post: Upcoming cool things with google maps v2
Demo of SVG in action on google maps - While the render speed on IE between SVG and VML is pretty much the same you can see the benefit in using SVG on Firefox 1.5. Crank Number of segments up to 2000 and you'll see the difference
Other previous Creation Tools posts: [Post1], [Post2], [Post3]
Other related sections here on Google Maps Mania: Google Maps Creation Tools/How-Tos

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