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Archive for May 17th, 2009

May-17-2009

Downtown Map Googlized

I was playing around this weekend and learned out to take an image and make Google Map tiles out of it. I took a great downtown map and used this approach with it and you can check it out below. If you want a full-screen version, try here.

Posted under Living Downtown
Tags: Maps

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