When Google Maps Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade

Google Maps has long been the choice for embedding maps on your website, or building map mashups. But GM is a closed, proprietary solution and Google's recent announcement that they will start charging for maps (or including ads on maps) has people looking at other options. As an added bonus, many of the alternative solutions are not only opens source, but they have significant advantages over Google Maps.

If you are a website owner with an embedded simple map, this talk will show you how you can dump Google Maps and switch over to other solutions in minutes. If you are a web designer, you'll see how you can customize maps so they will look the way you want them to look, not the way Google wants them to look. If you are a programmer building map-based webapps, you'll see how open source mapping APIs like Leaflet make it faster and easier to build map mashups and have them work the way you want. And if you just like cool maps, you'll see some new things that are possible with the next generation of map apps using HTML5 and CSS3.