Gmaps.Kaeding.Name

Back in 2006, I found myself in the uncomfortable situation of having two job interviews on the same day. (I would never recommend that, by the way; the first one went great, but I was exhausted and burned out by the time I got to the second one. Oh well, I don’t think I would have liked the second company anyway, and I am still happy to this day working for the company I interviewed that morning!) I wanted to see where these two locations were in relation to each other, and in relation to my apartment and school, so I could plan my day. I hopped onto Google Maps, hoping to be able to plot these four locations on the same map. To my dismay, it was not possible.

But, I wasn’t going to give up. I had wanted to play around with the Google Maps API before that, so this was my chance. I created a site to plot multiple locations on Google Maps, and I have used it countless times since then. Other people have also found it useful; I get a little over 1,000 page views per day (on week days, slightly less on weekends).

To learn more about this project, be sure to check out my blog postings in the gmaps.kaeding.name category. Here is a listing of the recent posts in that category:

• MapCustomizer.com Launches
• Mapping site should be faster now
• Speed Improvements for Mapping Site
• Better support for international addresses
• Improvements to Google Mapping Site
• Plot multiple locations on Google Maps
• Plot multiple locations on Google Maps