2006-08-16

Facebook + Google maps = Facebook Friend Mapper

See where your friend are from originally. Not necessarily useful, but interesting to look at.

Facebook Friend Mapper
1) Login to Facebook
2) See where your friends are from
3) Digg here, if you feel so inclined

Quick and to the point. Where are your friends from.

Also checkout Bookfaced, exchange books on campus with other facebook users.

So the facebook api was easy to figure out once I realized that the sample php scripts were completely broken. After tackling that I moved on to the google maps api. Also not to difficult, here I basically copied the examples strait from the docs. I decided to do my own geocoding from a database I had sitting around. It seemed to be a lot quicker than using the javascript geocoding stuff they suggested. Making an individual call per item on the client side could get really slow.
FAQ

* How long did this take?
About 2 hours
* Does it work?
Maybe, you be the judge


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