---
title: 'Mapdango mashes Digg, Flickr, FriendFeed, Wikipedia, and more into your maps'
date: '2008-09-03T08:39:03-07:00'
type: post
word_count: 513
char_count: 3554
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categories:
  - CartoSoft
  - Mapdango
  - Mashups
  - Oregon
  - Portland
tags:
  - CartoSoft
  - Digg
  - flickr
  - 'Friend Connect'
  - friendfeed
  - Google
  - Mapdango
  - Mashup
---

# Mapdango mashes Digg, Flickr, FriendFeed, Wikipedia, and more into your maps

While mapping services are often one of the first places people start mucking with APIs and mashups, few take to it as well as Portland-based [Cartosoft](http://cartosoft.com "Cartosoft"). Continuing to push the mapping mashup envelope, they’ve just [announced the latest version](http://www.cartosoft.com/node/20 "Mapdango v2 is out") of their [award-winning](http://siliconflorist.com/2008/03/25/mapdango-tops-mashup-camp-charts/ "Mapdango tops mashup camp") flagship product, [Mapdango](http://mapdango.com "Mapdango").

[![Mapdango](https://i0.wp.com/siliconflorist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/imgmapdangov2.jpg?w=925)](http://mapdango.com "Mapdango")

From the Mapdango v2 post:

> You spoke, emailed, and clicked – and we listened. After some relatively in-depth analysis for usage trends over the last four months or so, we custom-tailored mapdango to provide users with a better experience exploring different locations around the world.

So what’s new?

Well, what’s most important to a mashup? **More stuff to mashup, of course**. And Mapdango doesn’t disappoint. If it’s got an API available and some GIS info, it’s likely that it’s on Mapdango, now.

The [Google Maps](http://maps.google.com "Google Maps") based tool now includes travel books from [Amazon](http://amazon.com "Amazon"), news from [Google News](http://news.google.com "Google News"), weather from [WeatherBug](http://weatherbug.com "WeatherBug"), photos from [Panoramio](http://panoramio.com "Panoramio"), videos from [YouTube](http://youtube.com "YouTube"), articles from [Wikipedia](http://wikipedia.org "Wikipedia"), country demographic information from the [US Census Bureau](http://census.gov "US Census Bureau"), geotagged Flickr photos, events from Eventful, social connections via [Google Friend Connect](http://www.google.com/friendconnect/ "Google Friend Connect") ([Mapdango was one of the early beta testers of the Friend Connect service](http://siliconflorist.com/2008/06/12/first-portland-google-friend-connect-sighting-mapdango-may-be-it/ "Mapdango features Friend Connect")), related news from [Digg](http://digg.com "Digg"), links from [FriendFeed](http://friendfeed.com), and “a whole bunch” of social bookmarking links.

To make things a little easier to digest, the single view map has now been split into three separate views: a [dashboard](http://www.mapdango.com/), a [map view](http://www.mapdango.com/mapdango), and a [social view](http://www.mapdango.com/social).

What’s more, they’ve added the ability to string queries through a URL, making it easier to bookmark and perform quick lookups:

> We have made it even easier to add dynamic location links to mapdango. Simply add a URL-escaped location to the following URL, and mapdango will search for a location: <http://www.mapdango.com/location.php?q=>. For example, to search for Portland, Oregon, you would create a link to <http://www.mapdango.com/location.php?q=Portland+Oregon>.

All in all, this feature-rich release marks another leap forward for Mapdango and Cartosoft. And it serves as a positive reminder to the industry that—with the continued proclivity toward open data exchange—individuals hold the power to accumulate and manage tons of data within a single resource.

To try it for yourself, visit [Mapdango](http://mapdango.com "Mapdango"). For more on the latest release, see the [Mapdango v2 release post on the Cartosoft blog](http://www.cartosoft.com/node/20 "Cartosoft announce Mapdango v2").