{"id":995,"date":"2008-10-02T07:25:02","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T11:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=995"},"modified":"2008-10-02T15:33:18","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T19:33:18","slug":"google-formally-announces-google-voter-info-widget-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/02\/google-formally-announces-google-voter-info-widget-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Google formally announces Google Voter Info Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/nows-time-register-to-vote.html\">formally announced<\/a> Maps.Google.com\/Vote that I <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/20\/google-maps-to-provide-complete-voter-information-for-upcoming-election\/\">covered<\/a> in mid September. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to offering voting information and polling places (coming October 15) via Maps they are making the maplet available as a widget for your website via a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmodules.com\/ig\/creator?synd=open&#038;url=http:\/\/election-maps-2008.googlecode.com\/svn\/trunk\/poll411-gadget.xml\">their Gadget creator<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/www.gmodules.com\/ig\/ifr?url=http:\/\/election-maps-2008.googlecode.com\/svn\/trunk\/poll411-gadget.xml&amp;up_gadgetType=iframe&amp;up_example=Example%3A%201600%20Pennsylvania%20Ave%2020006&amp;up_fontFamily=Arial%2Csans-serif&amp;up_fontSize=10&amp;up_fontUnits=pt&amp;synd=open&amp;w=500&amp;h=300&amp;title=2008+US+Voter+Info&amp;border=%23ffffff%7C3px%2C1px+solid+%23999999&amp;output=js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned in my <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/20\/google-maps-to-provide-complete-voter-information-for-upcoming-election\/\">earlier post<\/a>, this type of mash up of deep local data with Maps offers an inkling of type of local data that will be presented on a national scale that we will be seeing over the next 12 to 18 months.  It will be exciting times indeed for local.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has formally announced Maps.Google.com\/Vote that I covered in mid September. In addition to offering voting information and polling places (coming October 15) via Maps they are making the maplet available as a widget for your website via a their Gadget creator: As I mentioned in my earlier post, this type of mash up of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}