Document your life with Maptales

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Document your life with Maptales

by Chris Gilmer Jul 9th 2007

You might come across many interesting things during your day to day travels, and may have even thought about how to go about sharing them with others. Google now lets users pinpoint where pictures are taken with Picasa Web, but Maptales lets you tell a story.

Maptales is powered by Google Maps, and allows users to tell a story by pinpointing locations, and showing a route on a map. Users can create and upload their story from a blog or Flickr account, and also from mobile devices. Paging through ones posted story takes users through the journey they have created, and even displays the longitude and latitude. Getting started requires an invitation key, Maptales does provide an email address where you can ask for one.

The project was built by a small team based in Austria, and hey, if you are interested in helping develop it, they are hunting for experts in CSS, Google Earth & Maps, JavaScript, and XML.

Gallery: Maptales

Tags: api, flickr, google, map, maps, maptales, online, social, story

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Mike Bailey said 4:24AM on 7-10-2007

This is seriously gay, who the freakin hell cares the route that you take to work. What next toilet tales that allows you upload the contents of latest release for the whole world to see.

Flo Ledermann said 7:37AM on 7-11-2007

Well, the "daily way to work" story is just a demo i guess... just because there a tons of boring blogs out there do you call blogs "gay"? maptales wants to be a tool for telling stories on maps, public or shared with your friends. if you ever did a journey you might see the demand for something like this...

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