Problem with Google's Geocoding API

UPDATE: This seems to be working now
All my twitter mashups (iran tweets, iran protests, ford fiesta, latest twitter status, michael jackson tweets...) stopped working because of the following error with Google's Geocoding API:

Looks like the end tag </AdministrativeArea> is missing. Hoping they would fix this error soon.

XML Parsing Error: mismatched tag. Expected: </AdministrativeArea>
Location: http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?key=APIKEY&output=xml&q=plymouth,mi
Line Number 15, Column 5: </Placemark>

Your Latest Twitter Status on Google Maps

My latest Google Maps Mashup takes your latest Twitter Status Update along with your profile location and displays it on Google Maps. The more detailed your profile location is, the higher the zoom level. So if you have a iPhone generated profile location (which is in the form of (latitude, longitude)) you will get the highest zoom level. Here's the url: (replace mibazaar at the end of the url with your twitter user id.

http://www.mibazaar.com/twitstat.php?uid=mibazaar

You can Embed the map in your website. Here's the code!! Replace the mibazaar user id in BOLD with your Twitter user id


<iframe width="425" height="425" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://www.mibazaar.com/twitstat.php?uid=mibazaar"></iframe><br /><small><a href="http://www.mibazaar.com/twitstat.php?uid=mibazaar" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">View Larger Map</a></small>


View Larger Map

U.S. Dept of State "Google Maps" Hillary Clinton's overseas travels

Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton's overseas trips are being mapped out on Google Maps by United States Department of State. You can choose any markers on the map to get more information about each trip. The information window for each marker contain links for video, photos and text of Hillary's speeches.

Google Mapping Total Solar Eclipse of 2009 (July 22nd)

On Wednesday July 22nd, 2009 there is going to be a total eclipse of the Sun. But it is going to be only visible from within a narrow corridor that traverses half of Earth. From NASA:

It begins in India and crosses through Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar and China. After leaving mainland Asia, the path crosses Japan's Ryukyu Islands and curves southeast through the Pacific Ocean where the maximum duration of totality reaches 6 min 39 s. A partial eclipse is seen within the much broader path of the Moon's penumbral shadow, which includes most of eastern Asia, Indonesia, and the Pacific Ocean.

Check out this Interactive Google Map which shows the path. (created by NASA).

Best Places to live in United States (2009) - Mapped!

Fortune is out with its list of 100 Best Places to live in United States and leading the list this year is Louisville, Colorado. Coming in at #28 is the place I live at currently - Plymouth Township, MI.

Even though Fortune has mapped out the data on Google Maps, I have taken the same data and created a Google Maps Mashup with "numbered" markers and also added a search capability (located on the left of the map) which narrows your results by "states".

(data source: FORTUNE)

100 Largest Corporations in United States Mapped!

My previous post listed World's 100 largest Corporations. Here's a look at 100 largest Corporations in United States on Google Maps. The Map shows the Company Name, City where its located and total revenues in ($ millions). Coming in at #1 is Exxon Mobil from Irving, Texas.

(Source: Fortune)

World's largest corporations Mapped!! (Top 100)

Fortune recently published a list of World's 500 largest corporations. I have taken the top 100 and mapped it out on Google Maps. The Map shows the Company Name, City and Country where its located and total revenues in ($ millions). Coming in at #1 is Royal Dutch Shell from Netherlands.

(Source: Fortune)

Mountains of the World Mapped!

Want to know about Mountains of the World! Then check out MountainsMounts.com which is a Google Maps Mashup of over 100,000 mountain peakes around the world.

The mountains are grouped by country, and listed in order of height. Its a great resource for geography class and anyone wanting to know more about mountains.

(found at GoogleMapsMania)

Here's a view of Brahmagiri Mountain from the Indian state of Karnataka

Michael Jackson Biographical Map #michaeljackson

Here's Michael Jackson bio map which I created which shows important stages in Michael Jackson's life and also has couple of YouTube videos.

The map automatically animates, in chronological order, through the map markers. You can however pause the auto play feature by clicking on "Pause Auto Play" or just by clicking on forward, back arrows.

Also check out Michael Jackson twitter map (tweets from Western/Eastern United States, Europe, India and Australia)