As I was walking into work this morning I had an idea. It would require a group effort though, as it would require entering thousands of data points.
There are now thousands of RV's in various places all around the world. Google Maps supports a feature that allows one to create "overlays" (http://maps.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=155420). I thought, wouldn't it be cool if we had an overlay showing the location of every RV in the world? You could click on an RV-point on the map and it would bring up information about the aircraft, who it's registered to, etc. Lots of questions to sort out - would it be restricted to completed RVs? Many of the datapoints would be located together at airports, how would these best be presented? How would we coordinate population of such an overlay? Could separate overlays for various regions be somehow merged to create a master RV Overlay?
It could be a neat way to map-out the whole community in a visual way, and also be a useful tool for quickly identifying what other RVs you might find when traveling.
Thoughts?
There are now thousands of RV's in various places all around the world. Google Maps supports a feature that allows one to create "overlays" (http://maps.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=155420). I thought, wouldn't it be cool if we had an overlay showing the location of every RV in the world? You could click on an RV-point on the map and it would bring up information about the aircraft, who it's registered to, etc. Lots of questions to sort out - would it be restricted to completed RVs? Many of the datapoints would be located together at airports, how would these best be presented? How would we coordinate population of such an overlay? Could separate overlays for various regions be somehow merged to create a master RV Overlay?
It could be a neat way to map-out the whole community in a visual way, and also be a useful tool for quickly identifying what other RVs you might find when traveling.
Thoughts?