I was chatting to John McKerrell yesterday and he was showing me his new creation http://mapof.it/. This is one of the coolest thinks I have seen recently and like all really cool things it is really simple.
Basically http://mapof.it/ allows you to build URLs that take you to a specific location (or route) on a web mapping site of your choice. So http://mapof.it/innsbruck will take you to a map of Innsbruck. You can also request a route between two places like this http://mapof.it/munich/innsbruck. In a way it is a kind of understandable TinyURL for maps! You can specify a mapping site of you choice using this approach: http://mapof.it/mm/graz,austria or set a specific site as your default with http://mapof.it/set/mm (this preference is saved as a cookie).
What I love about this is it is simple, useful (as an easy way to send a link to a map of have an easy URL to type) and you can choose which mapping provider you want to use.
More info is on John’s blog.
So only one question remains: How many spelling mistakes will John find in this post?
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Dude, you had to ask! 4 or 5 depending on how you spell Austria in Austria
Thanks for the write-up though, glad to see you like the site. Does seem to be something you either get straight away or just don’t see the point of. If it speeds up getting a map for me though then that’s all I want!