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Mapping the Votes with Michael Geary

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Michael Geary, the external developer responsible for building the Google election maps, discussed the following:
  • Using the same code for a mapplet, a Google Gadget, and a Maps API map
  • Turning shapefiles into map tiles, polygons, and markers
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Intro

0:00

Hash Hack

3:00

Maps API

4:56

New Hampshire

6:27

Color Codes

10:07

Bias

10:38

Twitter Vision

11:42

County Outlines

15:27

Announcements

16:21

Common Code

17:07

API Map

18:01

Developer Map

19:16

Reload Map

20:24

Set breakpoints

20:58

Separate wrappers

21:12

GAsync

23:22

Data Loading

24:00

Shape Files

25:11

Shape Utils

26:50

Finding a centroid

29:19

Zacharys code

30:49

Security software

31:26

KML file

31:56

Votes

33:28

Twitter

34:45

Twitter Updater

35:24

Jabber

35:57

Jabber Simple

36:24

HH Precut

36:50

HH Parser

37:02

Twitter Map

37:58

Campaign Trail

38:24

Hosting

39:31

Cache

40:02

Google Code

40:59

IGoogle Caching

42:29

Out of Time

43:32

Summer Township

44:29

Consulting for Google

45:01

Twitters API

45:51

Twig Twitter

46:20

Track Command

46:37

HTTP Polling

47:28

JavaScript Tricks

48:27

Question

49:37

For Each and Map

56:17

Index Method

57:14

Index by ID

59:18
Mapping the Votes with Michael Geary
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2008Apr 11
Michael Geary, the external developer responsible for building the Google election maps, discussed the following:
  • Using the same code for a mapplet, a Google Gadget, and a Maps API map
  • Turning shapefiles into map tiles, polygons, and markers
  • Collecting voting results into JSON objects
  • Making markers load faster
  • Hosting on Google Code and Amazon S3
  • Creating a custom Twitter map using Jabber to track keywords
Read his round-up blog post here: http://mg.to/2008/04/04/mapping-votes...

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Google for Developers

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