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Integration of Transit into Maps: As of today, transit icons on Google Maps are clickable in many locations around the world! Earlier in the year, we added transit icons for subway and light rail stations in major cities, but this release goes a step further and adds bus stop information for the cities we have it for. Icons for agencies that share data with us for Google Transit show additional information (in these cities, we show bus stops on the map tiles, and clicking on an icon shows line and departure information).

Google Maps: Sternschanze, Hamburg
Upcoming Departures in Zurich

via WorldChanging.

Four days left until the Google Developer Day will take off and I'm glad to be one of the attendees!

Here is my schedule:

12:00 Uhr Sign-Up und Lunch
13:15 Uhr Begrüßung und Key-Note
14:15 Uhr Google Maps API (Level: Experte) 45 Min.
15:00 Uhr GData (Level: Fortgeschritten) 45 Min.
15:45 Uhr Kaffeepause
16:15 Uhr Google Maps API (Level: Fortgeschritten) 45 Min.
17:00 Uhr Google Earth - KML (Level: Fortgeschritten) 45 Min.
17:45 Uhr Pause
18:15 Uhr Wrap-Up der Sessions
19:00 Uhr Get-Together im Google Hamburg Office

http://code.google.com/events/developerday/

From their site:

"We'll be inviting 500 developers to attend the event, which will begin with hack-related presentations from some of the Web's most respected developers. We will then dive into 24 hours of hacking on a very nice collection of tools, APIs, and data, and end with awards from the sponsors plus bragging rights until the end of eternity or the next Hack Day, whichever comes first."

Now I have to thing about what kind of hack will be my part...

http://hackday.org/

After the great feedback on the Localize Bookmarklet I got the next secret something for you guys: A tool to browse the world of Flickr photos!

Here you are: http://loc.alize.us/

Key features:
- Tag Cloud: Filter results by specific topics.
- Find People: See where your or your friends have been.
- Place Search: Find any place all around the world.
- Fast Map Interface: Smooth zoom, map/satellite/hybrid mode.
- Fullscreen Preview: See your photos in high quality.
- Shareable URLs: Copy and send dynamic anchors

Hope you will spend some relaxed hours using it. I did it in the past few months ;)

And, hey: Don't worry if something strange happend or if you can't find the right features you were looking for. Just drop your comment here and I will care about it!

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