Crumpled Notebook

So, Google recently launched My Maps. Oddly enough, I was just thinking the other night they should offer a mashup service. Basically, where you create your own maps. Say I want to make a map of all the best places to eat in Monterey. Now, in the past, unless you knew how to write the code and get the API for google maps, you were stuck. There are a couple sites that will do stuff like this with Google maps that are pretty good, but why not just do it directly from Google?

So basically, I put in the addresses of all my favorite resturants here. I give them a title and description and save it. That’s it. Now I can make it public so that anyone can see it, or I can save it just for myself. If its public, you can send a link of those things to all your family and friends who are coming to visit. Or whatever.

It’s just funny. It seems Google has this trend of, right when I start really thinking, “why don’t they do this?”, they go and do it. As indicated here.