{"id":408,"date":"2006-12-11T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/ny6wp\/?p=408"},"modified":"2006-12-11T08:17:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T16:17:00","slug":"google-map-tools-we-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/?p=408","title":{"rendered":"Google Map Tools We Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We came across WikiMapia, a hybrid between Google Satelite images, Wikipedia, and Flickr. Users can enter data on hot zones on the satelite images&#8211; for instance, the empty lot that now is the site of the new <a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkssixth.com\/newyorkssixthphotoblog\/labels\/Trump%20Towers.html\">Trump Towers.<\/a> Like all sites relying on user generated content though, we&#8217;ve come across a few mistakes. But in either case, <a href=\"http:\/\/wikimapia.org\/#y=40721990&#038;x=-74036307&#038;z=15&#038;l=0&#038;m=a\">Jersey City<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/wikimapia.org\/#y=40740770&#038;x=-74028604&#038;z=16&#038;l=0&#038;m=a\">Hoboken<\/a> both have extensive entries. <\/p>\n<p>And meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/hoboken411.com\/\">Hoboken411<\/a> pointed out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmap-pedometer.com\/\">GMaps Pedometer<\/a>, a service that calculates the distance of a walking trip using Google maps. We&#8217;ve found this a most useful tool after gathering construction site photographs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We came across WikiMapia, a hybrid between Google Satelite images, Wikipedia, and Flickr. Users can enter data on hot zones on the satelite images&#8211; for instance, the empty lot that now is the site of the new Trump Towers. Like all sites relying on user generated content though, we&#8217;ve come across a few mistakes. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hoboken","category-jersey-city","category-maps"],"views":1569,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}