Lab 3 - Google Maps Mashup

Rockclimbing and Grub in Bishop

This mashup is for all who love rockclimbing at Bishop and want to have information on the best places to eat and sleep there. The map provides some pictures of bouldering areas around Bishop to help provide a lil nudge to those who are indecisive committing to drive the long distance. All hotel/motels and restaurants included in this map were highly rated on Yelp because the last thing you want after a long day of climbing is horrible food. This mashup will hopefully provide rockclimbers and adventurers a better look into what Bishop has to offer!

Addresses, phone numbers, and food recommendations are included for each restaurant.


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Neogeography has the potential to greatly expand the information that is available to people who are looking for certain niche information. Without neogeography people looking for specific information that cannot be readily found will either have to do extensive research and deal with inefficient ways of storing, compiling, and sharing that information. The advent of neogeography and accurate geographical data online have made it possible to perform the above mentioned tasks easily and accurately. This information can then be shared and used by people who are interested in the same things, which helps to create both virtual and real-world communities.

However, having readily available and accurate peronal and geographical information can contribute to a myriad of problems. People who give up their personal information that is made public may not be aware of people that may use this data for their own purposes. For example, eightmaps.com is a mashup of those who contributed money to the prop 8 campaign. Their personal information allowed people who were angry about the campaign to send hate mail and boycott thier businesses, hardly what those who contibuted expected to happen with the information they gave up.

With the advent of new technology like neogeography, standards governing the access of information must be revisited. People must be warned about the potential consequences that may occur should they give their personal information to specific parties.