{"id":98,"date":"2005-05-02T22:18:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-03T03:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/crackbaby\/?p=98"},"modified":"2005-05-02T22:18:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-03T03:18:00","slug":"cool-google-maps-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Cool Google Maps hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone figured out a way to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dasnet.org\/node\/101\">merge Terraserver data with Google Maps<\/a>.  The best bit, though, is that you can get a Firefox plugin called <a href=\"http:\/\/greasemonkey.mozdev.org\">Greasemonkey<\/a> and a DHTML script to make it happen in your own browser:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSomeone&#8217;s hacked a totally custom map into Google (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.holovaty.com\/blog\/archive\/2005\/04\/19\/0216\">Chicago Transit Authority maps<\/a>) and he&#8217;s used a <a href=\"http:\/\/greasemonkey.mozdev.org\">Greasemonkey <\/a>script to integrate it directly into the regular maps.google.com map. If you&#8217;ve got Greasemonkey installed (on Mozilla), then right-click on this script: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dasnet.org\/other\/gmaps\/terrahack\/topo_monkey.user.js\">topo_monkey.user.js<\/a>, and select &#8220;Install user script&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Then, reload Google Maps, and you should see some new options (Terra, Topo, and Urban) appear next to Map and Satellite.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why does this kick ass?  Because Terraserver did not have as cool of interface as Google Maps for scrolling\/zooming\/browsing the maps.  And now it does with this little Greasemonkey script!  But I predict that Microsoft will shut this interoperable capability down somehow since all the eyeballs will be looking at Google Maps instead of Terraserver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone figured out a way to merge Terraserver data with Google Maps. The best bit, though, is that you can get a Firefox plugin called Greasemonkey and a DHTML script to make it happen in your own browser: Someone&#8217;s hacked &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=98\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}