Google Cartography: Street Art in Your Neighborhood
car·tog·ra·phy n. The art or technique of making maps or charts.
Google Cartography (found here:
http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/google-
cartography/google-cartography.html) uses Google via the Google
Search API [Chapter 9] to build a visual representation of the
interconnectivity of streets in an area. This application takes
a starting street and finds streets that intersect with it.
Traversing the streets in a breadth-first manner, the
application discovers more and more intersections, eventually
producing a graph that shows the interconnectivity of streets
flowing from the starting street. Figures Figure 3-5 and Figure
3-6 show maps generated for two of the world's great cities, New
York and Melbourne, respectively. Figure 3-5. New York, U.S., as
determined by Google cartography Figure 3-6. Melbourne,
Australia, mapped by a little Google cartography TIP: If you
know the streets in the areas shown, you will be able to find
inconsistencies introduced