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title: "More Greasemonkey Goodness: Greasemap"
date: 2005-07-14T23:31:18Z
modified: 2005-07-14T23:31:18Z
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categories:
  - Open Source
timestamp: 2005-07-14T23:31:18Z
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  - Open Source
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 [![](http://photos22.flickr.com/25993716_c0e03f8ffb_m.jpg)

](http://www.flickr.com/photos/sog/25993716/ "photo sharing")
 [Greasemonkey Plus Location Data = Greasemap](http://www.flickr.com/photos/sog/25993716/)
 
 Originally uploaded by [sogrady](http://www.flickr.com/people/sog/).



I discovered this little service [via Slashdot](http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/13/1927234&tid=217&tid=1) yesterday, which is a Greasemonkey script that looks for address or location data and, upon finding it, automagically inserts a header with mapping info acquired via the Google Maps API. In this case, the address is ripped directly from the NewsGator site as I was browsing the site in preparation for a meeting I have with them on Monday (thanks to a tip from fellow Denverites Lara MacKenzie and Larkin Kay).

Anyway, while this sort of mashup isn’t a grand effort on the order of [Chicagocrime.org](http://www.chicagocrime.org) or [Housingmaps](http://www.housingmaps.com/), what grabbed me about the announcement was this tidbit from the original Slashdot post:

> This inspired me to create Greasemap, a GPL Firefox plugin that injects a Google map into any page. Notably, it was a 7 hour project which I started when Google released their new API, and demoed the next day on the stage of the conference.

I’m not going to rehash the debate [we had](http://www.redmonk.com/sogrady/archives/000787.html) in this space earlier concerning the fragility of the Greasemonkey scripts involved, except to say that I continue to be impressed at how quickly developers are now able to create mashups (if you’re the hacker type) or composite applications (if you’re the enterprise type).

I also remain convinced that despite the “house of cards” (altho the author of that statement has softened his stance somewhat 🙂 nature of the Greasemonkey architecture, sooner rather than later we’re going to see GM within the enterprise – if only b/c they have the potential to take some of the load off of beleaguered, shortstaffed IT staffs. In other words, more of [this](https://www.sdn.sap.com/sdn/weblogs.sdn?blog=/pub/wlg/1669) (discussed previously [here](http://www.redmonk.com/sogrady/archives/000699.html)).