Mashup of GoogleMaps and Military History

January 3rd, 2007, 10 past midnight. I just finished the first major step in developing a demonstrator in GoogleMaps. 1000 objects are depicted on a map. The objects are part of a historically important infrastructural project in The Netherlands, until today it's still the largest project undertaken. Larger than the Deltaworks, larger than Betuwelijn, larger than HSL, ... The objects were built as a defence mechanism previous to to first world war. By inundating a large area of the country the enemy could be brought to a stand still (in the pre-aircraft years).

I have been working on a GoogleMap overlay

GoogleMaps is an interesting phenomena, Google supplied brief documentation on the API, nevertheless lots of people, not just geeks, started to work on it and step by step the API grows. I guess that that is what web 2.0 is all about. Starting with some sort of Beta and let the community work on it to the next Beta. Frankly I enjoyed my hours with the API documentation and places like Mapki, a wiki on GoogleMaps. The result is a map based search entry for documents.

Always on the outlook for the customer