Perhaps in my Copious Free Time™ I'll get around to hacking together a Dashboard widget which checks my plazes location and displays a nice map of my surroundings. Perhaps it would remember where it has been so as to approach spime-hood.
For extra credit, I would make an SVG basic renderer using the new canvas API. After playing around with basic 3D projection, WebCore (originally I typed "WebKit" a la BeOS, *snort*) feels fast enough for basic SVG vector graphs and Ajax could deliver the SVG tree. Deer Park does not feel fast enough, but it is in early alpha, so I'm witholding judgement.
That said, if someone else took it upon themselves to build such a thing, I would show gratitude to h[er|is] tip jar.
I'm building something along the lines you are thinking of (or does it already exist?). See: http://alper.nl/blog/tech/117/
Posted by: Alper | April 23, 2006 at 12:57 PM