Google has done a great job opening up their maps application. It allows you to seriously personalize content by using annotation and associating interactive content.
If you have a couple dozen or maybe a hundred locations, it might be OK, but what happens when you get to a large volume of data points that is in the thousands? Google maps starts to get a little unmanageable.
There are some new applications out there that help to make sense out of all these data points.
Although I found a fair amount of plugins that extend Google maps to another application, I haven't seen anything that reforms the data like Marker's Fusion from Mapeed.com.
Marker Fusion take data from aggregated areas and bundles it as a summarized. I have done a screen cast that uses the demonstration part of the Mapeed site to show these functionalities.
For companies with thousands of locations like retail stores, starbuck or fast food restaurants, it is a great way to update mapping and make it more user friendly.
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