Crazy New Weather Map Mashups

This whole mapping mashup web 2.0 thing has brought about some wild innovations in the way we see maps, images, weather, and sattellite views. For example, check out WeatherBonk.com, which has Crazy Map / Weather info mashups from Digg and John Battelle. For example, you can get live weather video feeds with "views from over 8000 worldwide weather cams." See the pins to the right showing the live cams, for Texas et al.

This same site, WeatherBonk.com also has google maps that show Temperatures using the 'pins' we've come to know and love, Forecasts, and other useful and AJAXified maps.

It's a pretty incredible offering. See what the weather is like, anywhere in the world, day or not, for free. Let's step back 25 years and imagine telling someone you could do this. They'd think you were pulling their leg, right?

Others are doing it as well. The brand new Ask City appears to be a strong success so far, with quality and innovative features, plus a vast source of local data, such as CitySearch.com, from Ask.com's father, Barry Diller. He has harnessed the resources of the interactive media conglomerate that he chairs, Interactive Corp, and the many business in IAC's portfolio.

Also noticed that GOOG tightened its relationship with NASA last week, so one of my predictions for 2007 is ubiquitous mapping technologies, on our phones, at home, wherever we are...free access to maps that do all sorts of cool things by merging a map with other useful datasets in this mapping mashup flurry and creation of a multitude of mapping tools.

Oh yeah, Merry Holidays.