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08 Apr 2007
My Google Maps are Lists
I have been pondering the MicroContent within My Google Maps. And I came to the conclusion that Is hould see these as ordered and unordered lists. Let me explain.
The basic Item within these maps are the points. These points are the MicroContent Items. Each point contains of multiple fields such as longitude, latitude, title and description. What is missing is a permalink for each point however. One can exchange these points between users and they hold their meaning.
However combining multiple points into a list adds extra meaning. This is just as a blog can evolve from single posts to a journal with multiple posts, where the order of the posts will evolve to a story.
Thus a line on a Google Map is an unorder list of points. And when I used it to designate a route I took, it evolves into an ordered list. And this ordered list provides extra meaning: there is a start- and an endpoint. A Google Map is even more complex as one can mix multiple points with multiple lines and multiple area's. Thus the list even grows into groups of lists.
Note that one can add titles and descriptions to lines and area's as well. This turns lines and area's into MicroContent Items itself and turns Google Maps into a complex network of MicroContent.
I should add that these Lists are also published as KML-files and thus this MicroContent can be opened in Google Earth as well.