Filed under: Utilities, Web services, Google
Another Google Maps hack: locate cellphone towers
At the rate developers are coming up with new uses for Google Maps, we may just have to make this a daily feature. Here's the latest, courtesy of our peeps at Hackaday: It's the cell phone tower search from Mobiledia. They've taken the FCC's public data on cellphone tower locations, put it into a database and created a front-end to let you search the database and display your town's towers via Google Maps; now you know where to go to avoid dead spots! Ain't open APIs grand?Go there.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
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Adam E said 4:24PM on 7-28-2005
Now THAT kicks ass.
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