Google Maps - Julien Danjou

Julien Danjou

Google Maps

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Google Maps for Emacs: moving, caching and home

Google Maps for Emacs: moving, caching and home

Last week, I worked on my Google Maps for Emacs [https://julien.danjou.info/projects/emacs-packages#google-maps] extension. I've introduced a new format handling for locations which include the longitude and latitude. The initial format was just a string describing the location, which was obviously too limited. It now prints

Emacs, Google Maps and BBDB

Emacs, Google Maps and BBDB

Today's fun idea was to put all my contacts stored into BBDB [http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/] on a Google Maps' map, using my Google Maps extension for Emacs [https://julien.danjou.info/projects/emacs-packages#google-maps]. With the help of a few lines of Lisp glue: (google-maps-static-show :markers (mapcar (lambda (address-entry)

M-x google-maps

M-x google-maps

Since I have started to use Org-mode [http://www.orgmode.org], I though it was missing something to have appointment locations on a map. Of course, it's easy to get a LOCATION property from an entry, and then browse-url on Google Maps [http://maps.google.com]. But it is too