Some experiments with Google Maps:
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  • Main Map
    • Custom maps, custom controls, point-in-polygon and geocoding
    Click anywhere in the US to get county information and outline.
  • POIs along a route (with server side clustering)
    • A combination of points along a route and server side clustering. Search for healthy food along your travel route. ;-)

    (Hosted at my new domain, gis5.com)
  • API V3: Custom Tile Layers with opacity
    • Newly added functionality in the API V3 offers support for custom tile overlays.
  • Municipal data for the city of Bakersfield, CA.
    • This is similar to the custom maps in the Main Map, except that each custom tile layer is added to the map as a GTileLayerOverlay, allowing for each layer to be switched on and off independently.
  • Server side clusterer
    • Written in PHP, and with a MySQL database, this server side clustering script returns results in less than 1 second from a table with 40,000 records. Please note that the co-hosted server can be moody at times.
  • Driving Radius (Multiple destinations)
    • Using a single GDirections object, plot routes that reach 30 miles from a center point
  • SIMBAD Astronomical Database and Google Sky
    • Search the SIMBAD Astronomical Database, (operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France), and display results using Google Sky tiles. The Andromeda Galaxy is quite spectacular, isn't it? :-)
  • Place That State (Draggable polygons)
    • A game like mashup where you're given the outline of a random state and you have to move it into place by dragging.
    Implements a trick to drag entire polygons without setting the polygon into edit mode.
  • MControlSuite
    • Several custom controls for your maps. (MMapTypeControl - MOpacityControl - MZoomControl - MStatusControl - MTileNumberControl)
  • Math function plotter
    • Plot a graph of math functions on a Google Map with Euclidean projection
  • Polygon selection tool
    • A tool to draw a selection area in the shape of a polygon. The selection can be either a rectangle or a circle.
  • Points of Interest along a route
    • Get driving directions and then find the points of interest that lie within a predefined distance of your route in the state of Texas.
  • Heatmap
    • A heatmap showing the density of fast food restaurants in the United States
  • Driving Directions with the GDirections object
    • Driving directions using the GDirections object. (With custom styling of results)
  • Circle
    • This is a circle on the surface of the planet. At larger radii, the effects of the Mercator projection become clearly visible.
  • Route plot and distance calculation
    • Just click around and see the distance travelled for each segment on the right.
  • Distance from mouse to line
    • Click the map two or more times to create polylines. Distance from mouse to each line is calculated in pixels
  • Minimap in infowindow
    • Click the the marker and the 'Location' tab
  • Maps in sync
    • Bunch of maps synchronized between them (useless)
  • Maps in sync 2 - different
    • Bunch of maps synchronized between them (still useless)
  • Route Plotter for Magellan Explorist files
    • Upload a track file from a Magellan Explorist GPS and see it plotted on the map.
  • Dynamic map resize
    • Show/hide map and resize
  • Driving Directions with a KML file
    • This was made before the GDirections object became available in the API. It gets the directions in a KML file that you can save on your server
  • Scanning Radar
    • A toy I made for fun. Animated radar screen with polylines.
  • Resize viewport
    • Resize the map's viewport by miles or kilometers.
  • Flight path along a great circle (Obsolete)
    • Click 1, click 2 and see the flight path an aircraft would follow
  • Mouse Wheel Zoom (Obsolete)
    • Control the map zoom with your mouse wheel.
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