Facebook/Google Maps tie up maps friend locations
An innovative marriage of Facebook location and Google maps functionality has been created by three college students to map friend’s positions worldwide.
“Where My Friends Be?” handily locates your mates within just a few seconds by dropping pins on a map of the Earth to illustrate who is at the centre of your world and who is out on a limb.
One of the developers of the mashup, Ajay Mehta, observed: “Surprisingly, there aren’t a lot of apps like this. There were a few that were very poorly developed and eventually canceled years ago. They weren’t this visual either, most had a lame loading bar or something similar and the mapping was laggy/slow.
“We have friends pop onto the map in a cool, interactive way (which was the hardest part to hack together).”