GatheringPoint

Since we released our Map Maker tool we’ve seen maps popping up all over the internet.  Here are some maps that we think are really cool!

Tweets around Brooklyn from #Nets fans!

A Church Directory in York, PA

A City Explorer for Anchorage!

WalkAbout Live on the Half Moon Bay Review

Wick Communication’s Half Moon Bay Review won “Best Use of Multimedia” (under 100,000 newspaper circulation) from the Local Media Association for their Walkabout feature (powered by GatheringPoint maps).

Judges comment:  “This is pretty fantastic.  I really like what you’ve done with GatheringPoint thus far.”

Congratulations to Clay Lambert, editor, and Bill Murray, publisher!

We’re happy to welcome Ticket Network into the GatheringPoint map world.  Ticket Network taps into ticket exchanges to help you find the ticket you want for the event you want.  Because they are a ticket exchange, people can often find tickets for shows even if they are sold out at the box office.

Ticket Network is a great addition to our content family.  We’re excited that people can look for shows and events near where they are, and use Ticket Network to help get those tough to obtain tickets.

GatheringPoint presents events from Ticket Network, Brown Paper Tickets, EventBrite, MeetUp, and ConferenceHound.  There is always something to do just down the block – whether you’re at home, or visiting a new place.

We’re happy to announce that GatheringPoint partners now have the ability to easily create their own custom content layers and edit them on the fly.  They setup a Google Docs Spreadsheet with columns such as latitude, longitude, title, popup window content, and map pin selection.  Non-technical people can edit the spreadsheet and see changes on the map on their website or mobile app.

As always, partners embed a GPoint powered map widget by adding an iframe.  They set map location and zoom level, as well as which of the dozens of available content layers that will be displayed by default when the map loads.  Some partners also use a geo enabled rss feed for custom layers generated from the content of their site.

We’re excited to have added some great new content partners to GatheringPoint.  Check them out under the “Events” category (except that Instagram is in Social).  See the pictures your Instagram friends have taken… all  mapped out by location!

Watch for an “interesting places” word cloud layer – coming soon!