Personalized Maps

You can create your own personalized Google Maps, annotated and customized with images, video and web links. Say for documentation of a study of retail conditions. A geographic map is an ideal interface. We have experimented with Geographical Information System (GIS) interfaces to systems like optimization models. This had historically required quite a bit of programming effort. Mash-ups on top of existing platforms like Google Maps and Earth provide new flexibility for using this kind of interface.