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Yahoo! Maps on the Silver Screen

October 28, 2006

As a movie enthusiast and film & television major, I’ve always aspired to get my work on the movie screen. I never knew that it would come (initially I hope) in the form of a mashup I did with the Yahoo! Maps API.

To promote the upcoming Da Vinci Code DVD (due Nov. 14), Sony has put together another trailer featuring interviews from Ron Howard, Dan Brown and the Yahoo! Maps mashup I did back in June. It appears Yahoo! is handling a special contest with the studio built around several hidden clues put into the original movie release.

I originally coded the mashup back for the theatrical release. It had the map panning and zooming into Paris, marking 4 locations of exclusive clips from the movie. To my knowledge it was very successful, and can still be viewed on Yahoo! Movies.

If you see the trailer in theaters, please let me know what movie you saw it with and where. I have only been informed about it by a colleague and can’t wait to see it with my own eyes.

2 thoughts on “Yahoo! Maps on the Silver Screen”

  1. RyanPManning says:
    October 30, 2006 at 3:57 pm

    Chuck this is SWEET! I ran into a few people who were asking about you out at MAX last week. When is the release date of your book….and more importantly do can I get a free copy? 😉

    – Ryan

  2. dmschraeder says:
    October 31, 2006 at 4:05 pm

    Your map was a very original way to provide a movie trailer. Very cool.-D

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