Well… I finally took the plunge. I bought a refurb Garmin 550 from buy.com for $179. I’ve wanted one for my wife, and for when we travel – but I also wanted one for bluetooth phone integration (as a speakerphone). The price point was always $350 or more – more than I was going to [...]

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Mashed up a few of the locations for missionaries from church and google maps (using GMaps from Firestorm Technologies) on the church website I’ve been developing. I was worried about finding some royalty free country flag icons that would work for markers but those were easily found. Wondering what is in the new “Pro” version [...]

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I’ve seen all these great applications of google maps, read a bit about the API, and think someday I’ll try that out. Well I got a key and started playing around with it. Quickly I was overwhelmed with JavaScript. I’m a Java programmer and we just don’t get along with JavaScript (well I don’t). I [...]

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