So I’ve been looking for a good excuse to play with the google maps API a little bit. After all I haven’t touched spatial in a while and its supposed to be my specialty. (Note to self, you still need to setup that 10.1.2 database with all the new Oracle spatial features and get playing) Anyways, I decided to throw together a little site that would allow the members of LS1GTO to put down where they live, their handle on the boards and their year and color. I geocoded all of the cities on the 2000 census, I would have done it at the zip code level, but I couldn’t find a good dataset. The google maps api is pretty slick and really easy to use. It definitely does start to get bogged down when you have many members your looking to map. Does anyone have any good free resources of Oracle spatial data for the US? I’d like to do this in mapviewer and spatial, largely due to the performance benefits, but I can’t find a decent dataset. I might just make my own, it sure would be cool if somone would but out a free Oracle/Navteq competitor to google maps using the mapviewer APIs (anyone from Oracle listening, I’ll write the code, you just provide the hardware and data). Anyways, heres the quick and dirty version of the site: