Any Google Maps geniuses out there?

Technology spreading the word of wine through a world of wine drinkers

Posted by Robbin Gheesling on May 12, 2008 at 7:31am in Business and Technology

I have a grand idea that I have no time to actually implement. It might even be in the works somewhere...

Permalink Reply by Arthur Przebinda on May 12, 2008 at 10:38am: What is your idea, Robbin? Are you thinking about geographical maps or site maps?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Alex Prichard on May 12, 2008 at 1:40pm: Hi Robbin - I've sent you a message. I'm pretty sure I'd be able to help out, or I know someone who would!

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Permalink Reply by Mark Gordon on May 22, 2008 at 8:57am: Robbin:

We are doing some interesting stuff with Yahoo Maps using Adobe Flex. Feel free to PM me if you want to talk.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Patrick on June 5, 2008 at 12:41am: What exactly are you planning... I have been playing around with google maps on a simple static basis. But unfortunately I havn't found out how to use its AJAX possibilities to dynamically load new Spots etc... http://www.johner.de/maps/karte.htm; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Robbin Gheesling on June 5, 2008 at 6:19am: I guess I'd be happy to just see it exist more than actually make any money on it myself....

Somebody out there needs to put all the wine region and vineyard borders into a Google Earth app. Then us geeks can put in "Serralunga" in as a search term and go straight there....; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Philip James on June 6, 2008 at 10:17am: Yeah, thats pretty cool. We're currently mapping our 35,000 wineries into a Google Maps framework, but the borders thing is harder, someone needs to manually demark the limits of each region / vineyard. Would certainly be very cool though....

What we could do once we launch, with no additional work, is allow you to type any search term and then show you results on the map, it wouldnt be marked explicitly, but it would show you a density style map that you could kind of use to figure out the limits of the region.

Thats kind of 50% there - would that be useful?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Agent Red on June 10, 2008 at 10:01am: We currently use Microsoft's Live mapping technology as it gives us their ever-so-cool "Bird's Eye View". Here is an example from one of our recent wine sales. I would love to see a mashup as you describe, Robin, using Live maps or Google Maps. that would be cool.; ▶ Reply to This