Map Mashup Cooks With Gas
August 15th, 2008
Lot’s of unbelievibly cool apps have been created with the Google Map API. Here’s one that’s cool AND timely – go to DrivePricing.com and fill out the simple form.
Enter the start and end address, the zipcode where you buy gas and the average MPG of your vehicle.
Whamo, it calculates the gas cost and displays the trip on a Google Map!
Not that anyone’s talking about gas costs these days, but DrivePricing should be called DriveTraffic. What a simple, clever way to get eyeballs to a web site – and sell a boat load of AdSense advertising too.
The only thing that would bum me out about this site is if I found out it was owned by some billionaire oil dude like T. Boone Pickens.
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