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• Posted by daniel, November 28th, 2007 4:31 pm
  

  Very cool Heri. I’ve been meaning to do the exact same thing for awhile (I was interested in finding the Mtl Tech Startup scene’s center of mass). Oh well, guess I’ll have to find some other excuse to play with the gmap api :-)

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• Posted by Sylvain Carle, November 28th, 2007 10:52 pm
  

  The map is already available, n’est-ce pas?

  Nice work, custom/community maps is one area where lots of innovation will happen, glad to see you are already experimenting with it!

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• Posted by Montreal Technology Map » Billions With Zero Knowledge, November 29th, 2007 7:46 am
  

  [...] Heri from MontrealTechWatch is working on a great initiative to build a public database with a list of all the technology companies, projects and venture firms in M…. [...]

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• Posted by Heri, November 29th, 2007 3:17 pm
  

  sylvain carle, well no it’s not avalaible, we are working on it.

  i wonder how you got that. google maps search?

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• Posted by Sylvain Carle, November 29th, 2007 3:24 pm
  

  Yes, it’s a new feature of Google Maps, when you search it also gives you the “community” maps after the standard results. If you search for a business name with few entries in it (like Praized par exemple) you can find map that uses it, if the author has not checked the “privacy” option to be “unlisted”.

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• Posted by Sylvain Carle, November 29th, 2007 3:26 pm
  

  Also, you should keep the option open to import a batch of locations from a microformatted xhtml source or a KML file, might come handy one day…

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• Posted by Heri, November 29th, 2007 3:34 pm
  

  thanks, (although I am not sure if keeping a kml source file is scalable if we hit more than 100+ companies)

  by the way, it just unlisted the map, mainly because it’s still in draft version and also because there are a couple of errors on it.

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• Posted by Robin, November 30th, 2007 4:17 am
  

  I’d certainly like to help. I even have some code (php, still counts) laying around that does most of this that was used to map about 200 free software / open source companies (where the link to free software was very loosely defined).

  microformats (hcard), georss, kml, geourl, geocoder.ca… and I recently found a heatmap service that could come really handy to show $$ or number of employees density, for example.

  Great work yet again, keep it up :)

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• Posted by Stephane Daury, November 30th, 2007 10:28 am
  

  On a very loosely related note, Heri, I noticed that the Google Webmaster Tools now allow you to specify a geo-target for your site(s). I guess MTW would be a prime candidate for that.

  See GWT -> Tools -> Set geographic target

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• Posted by hughmcguire.net · Mtl Tech Map, December 6th, 2007 5:20 pm
  

  [...] got a map of Montreal tech start-uppy things going on, if you’ve got a project to put in [...]

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