Fun & Games with Google Earth API

Monster Milktruck over LP Field in Nashville

One of the requirements for our personal projects is to implement some kind of web API within our project. Web APIs, or Application Programming Interfaces, allow web applications to communicate with each other in ways that extend the functionality of the applications in new ways.

Google has been offering its Google Earth API for some time, and many developers are using it to create all sorts of mapping applications that once would have taken a tremendous amount of work. For example, the Monster Milktruck mashup allows you to drive a giant milktruck anywhere on Earth. Other mashups using Google Earth include one that lets you run from Zombies in your neighborhood, or if you're feeling nostalgic, drive the A-Team Van.

I don't know if I'll have the time, but I would love to find a way to set locations for Activities in Goalizr, that way you could see where you spend your time working towards (or being distracted from) your goals. With HTML5 you can now request the location of a user from the browser (geolocation), but there would still be a lot of work getting it setup and persisting to a database. We will see... there's always Version 2.0!