Comparing contemporary maps...

[avantsam]

Hello.

Some years ago, I wanted to compare London & Melbourne Google Maps and
had to resort to overhead transparencies.

See: http://brainstrust.blogspot.com/2008/02/my-lo-fi-google-maps-mashup.html

At first glance, it looks like Hypercities could be easily expanded to
include this funcionality... What do you think?

regards

Simon

[David Shepard]

Hmmm ... What were you thinking of--allowing you to overlay two locations from Google Maps on top of each other? That could actually be kind of hard--all the tiles in Google Maps are encoded with geographic information, and the program only really knows which ones to display because of the geographic information in the tiles. So that might not be possible, sorry.

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David Shepard
Project Manager, Hypercities (http://hypercities.com/)
PhD Candidate, Department of English
UCLA

[avantsam]

Hi David,

Thanks for your reply and your explananation of why such an overlay
wouldn't work. I wonder if side by side maps would be possible
(matching levels of zoom & positioning...)

regards

Simon

On May 2, 1:19 pm, David Shepard <shepard.da...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmmm ... What were you thinking of--allowing you to overlay two locations
> from Google Maps on top of each other? That could actually be kind of
> hard--all the tiles in Google Maps are encoded with geographic information,
> and the program only really knows which ones to display because of the
> geographic information in the tiles. So that might not be possible, sorry.
>