From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:08:19 +0000 From: Balwinder S Dheeman Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8390b960ade4ccf5fffa6b3b9ea3cbe6@quintile.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] new toy - gmap Topicbox-Message-UUID: bc5a093a-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 03/13/2009 05:39 AM, Steve Simon wrote: > New toy, a google maps client in a few lines of script - thanks to them > rather than plan9. > > With no args it looks in /lib/sky/here and displays where you are, with > some args describing a place on the planet it tries to show you the local > roads. > > It should really have a GUI that lets you zoom and pan and select road, aerial > or hybrid maps but that will wait for another day. > > You will need to sign up for a google maps key, though this is free and no > significant demographics are required. > > I find it useful, YMMV > > /n/sources/contrib/steve/rc/gmap Exemplary :) Please keep improving it up. Thanks, -- Dr Balwinder S "bsd" Dheeman Registered Linux User: #229709 Anu'z Linux@HOME (Unix Shoppe) Machines: #168573, 170593, 259192 Chandigarh, UT, 160062, India Plan9, Fedora, Debian/FreeBSD/XP Home: http://cto.homelinux.net/~bsd/ Visit: http://counter.li.org/