[Editor's Note: Apple has shut-down Mapspread.com due to the acquisition of Poly9. // via DeadZones]
Google Maps is awesome. It wouldn’t be a stretch to believe that I use it every single day, for some reason or another. And the fact that they’ve opened up their API for use in other creative applications sometimes simply boggles my mind.
Mapspread, a new service leveraging Google Maps, is one of those new (and very useful) creative applications. From their own lips, “Mapspread is perfectly suited to organizations and businesses that need to centrally manage geodata. No database needed, no setup cost, no overly complex GIS.”
I like that.
You can quickly get up and running and after about 5 minutes of time I had my first location plotted and was adding a second and third.
As you can see, you can eventually embed this map into any page that you’d like. Just think, you could use this for your own ministry/church locations if you’d like, or even small groups, or something creative. Who knows?
Go ahead and try it out. What do you think?
Definitely passing this on. GMaps is great, but this definitely builds on it from an organization standpoint.
Very nice application! Does anyone know if someone is good with the Google maps API if this could be done for an individual website without the MapSpread branding? If so, is if fairly easily done or would it be a complicated job for an API developer?
We'll be announcing our pricing plans soon and we will allow users to create white-labeded applications. Contact us at sales@mapspread.com for more information.
That sounds great! I'm already planning where the new map for the nonprofit I work for is going to go.
oh, lookit that.
oh snap…this is amazing!
this app has some interesting uses