Google Maps API Group
Link to google maps api group forum where there are questions and answers to all your google maps needs.
Google Earth Spreadsheet Mapper
Link to google spreadsheet mapper that looks really cool but haven't tested out - still waiting for some reason to.
Click Here To See It In Action (I didn't change template coords just threw NYGeog in some sample names)
James Fee has been posting about the future of open source gis recently. I'm pretty torn on the issue as I know ESRI products inside and out and trying to install GeoServer or other open source materials at work is impossible because of no admin rights (what's up wit dat corporate!).
That is one reason I'm considering more and more web-based (app's and servers hosted by entities such as Google) data storage, geoprocessing, display etc. OR what if there was a GIS application ubiquitous as Microsoft Office that was open and integrated with all programs and servers (future of QGIS?).
