Olympics Medal Count + Community Contributed Data + Live Maps Mashup

zroiy — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:07:22 GMT

This is still work in progress , since this countries list is not completed yet. But I'd thought I'd share the work so far.

Live maps with its extendible API/SDK allows you to do cool things. Here is one, taking the countries 2008 Olympic games medal counts, asking the community to help with getting countries coordinates, and mashing it all up with javascript to create a cool representation of nations of the worlds map with their Beijing 2008 medals count.

Here is what's ready so far.

Beijing 2008 Medals Count on Live Maps

Want to help to complete the picture, add your country coordinates to this wikipedia countries gps coordinates page

No fancy ASP.Net stuff was used to build this, just a bunch of ye-olde-regex magic procedures.

Beijing 2008 medals count

zroiy — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:29:07 GMT

China wants to be in first place in the total medals count in the 2008 games.
Here are three easy ways to see if the can stand up their word.

Search Google for Beijing 2008. The first entry would be a simple and clean table with the result.
Check out this official Beijing 2008 results page.
Embed this NBC medal count widget in your website.

For other Beijing 2008 related info, check my pervious post

Roiy Zysman : Race for Medals

Olympics Medal Count + Community Contributed Data + Live Maps Mashup

Beijing 2008 medals count