WebMapSocial and Google are hosting a Hackathon for Geo developers in Silicon Valley!

Join us on Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 from 1:30PM to 7:30PM at Google HQ, in the Bodega Bay room of 1950 Charleston Ave., for a Hackathon covering the Google Geo APIs:

The Google Maps API for JavaScript V2 and V3

The Google Maps API for Flash

The Google Earth API

KML

The Google Maps Data API

Google Engineers will be there to help out with any questions. We'll provide you with suggested codelabs, or you can just work on your own projects. So bring your laptops, and be prepared to code. Developers who demo will receive Google swag.

7:30 - 9:30 PM regular WebMapSocial Meetup (also at Google HQ, in the Bodega Bay room of 1950 Charleston Ave) featuring:

DEMOs from Geo Hackathon-ers

and

VirtualTrafficCops.com gives you the power to ticket your friends and other drivers for their bad, obnoxious, rude or just down right stupid behavior. Help bring order to the roads by joining the ranks of the "Virtual Traffic Cops", you can play the role of a cop, working up from Police Officer to Chief of Police.
VirtualTrafficCops.com offer all the expected social networking site features such as photos, blogs, IM, inviting your friends to join your "Beat" /network and compete with them in making driving safe and fun.

and

TWITTER engineer Raffi Krikorian

Raffi is currently a member of the Twitter Platform Team focused on bringing location into the Twitter platform. He worked on current version of the Geotagging API at Twitter, which has been embraced by the most active mobile Twitter clients as a way of natively embedding a sense of place into the tweets they create. Additionally, he has been working on exposing geographically specific trending topics through the Trends API. Raffi came to Twitter from Boston, MA where he ran an innovation-centric consulting firm, was an Adjunct Professor at NYU's ITP, and was a graduate of the MIT Media Lab.

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Space is limited, so register NOW! This event is also generously sponsored by Eventful and Green Map.

For more information visit...

http://hackathon.apps...