Google I/O Interactive Map: Now with videos + some Open Source goodness!
If you attended
Google I/O 2009 a few weeks ago, you may have noticed a kiosk station on the 2nd and 3rd
floors of Moscone West labelled '
Interactive Conference Map, powered
by
Google
Maps'. The kiosk simply pointed to a
JavaScript Maps API-based interactive map
of the venue I created in my 20% time.
Now that all the
I/O session videos and presentations are live, we took the
opportunity to mash up the videos with our interactive conference map to provide developers
with an alternate way to navigate through 80+ keynote and session videos, and bring the action
at I/O to life virtually. For example, here are
videos of sessions that took place in Room 1
(click the tabs for Wednesday and Thursday sessions). And
here's where the keynote sessions took
place. Check out
where we filmed interviews with I/O sandbox
developers on their apps, technical challenges and business best practices.
Now,
hopefully you enjoyed using the map and are now thinking, "Cool, I want to do something like
this for my next event!" (or your college campus, or such). If you are, then good news
everyone, I've
open sourced the interactive conference
map and all relevant resources. Inside the project, you'll also find a
how to article outlining the steps I went
through to create the map.
If you attended I/O, then I hope
you enjoyed it and had time to stop by the conference map kiosk! If not, no worries, just make
sure to check out the
open source project and see if you can use the code
and/or techniques in your next mapping project!
By Roman Nurik, Developer Programs
Engineer
If you attended
Google I/O 2009 a few weeks ago, you may have noticed a kiosk station on the 2nd and 3rd
floors of Moscone West labelled 'Interactive Conference Map, powered
by Google
Maps'. The kiosk simply pointed to a JavaScript Maps API-based interactive map
of the venue I created in my 20% time.