Over the last two days I’ve found a couple of hours to play with both Yahoo maps and Google maps. It’s my first attempt at building an application that plots data on a map. After starting with Yahoo I quickly moved to Google. The main reason for switching was because the Yahoo (API) maps don’t include street maps for Australia. This seemed kind of strange as maps.yahoo.com.au does include them. A quick check of some US cities and London showed that they did have street maps so I think I set it up correctly.

Currently it displays a marker on the map for every data point. The next challange is:

1. Only include markers that will be rendered on the current map,
2. Combining markers as the user zooms out.