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Playing with the Google Maps API

Xiao Yisheng has created a handy means to employ Google's interface to present user-supplied content in an elegant Beta at maplib.net. I tried it out with an old aerial photograph from Nova Scotia, adding a few markers. I anticipate that the app's features will expand to allow more annotation and maybe even hyperlinks. I also tried it out as a way to annotate a photograph, but I'm not so sure that's a success. It's better at flickr: