Greasemap is a one-year-old Greasemonkey user script for Firefox which, on web pages containing human-readable addresses or machine-readable location metadata, will embed Google Maps in the pages.
Here are Greasemaps in my browser on this site, and at NEW:
One of the things I’ve really enjoyed about using Firefox is the hard work others have done to expose attributes and behaviors of sites that are otherwise invisible, or at least non-obvious. The locality of web browsing is probably the coolest example. Greasemap is fun to use alongside the GeoURL extension which, from pages with location metadata, reveals a list of physically nearby pages and sites. It’s not cyberspace, but kind of what we got instead: a logical grid bolted on top of the meat grid.
(If you’re interested, I made a slight patch tidy up Greasemap’s appearance.)
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