aHa Consulting is helping our clients change the way they present information to their users by integrating Google Maps with Drupal. There are several categories of content that lends itself well to visualization through maps rather than traditional text based content rendering techniques. Examples include:

• Construction projects
• Parks and recreation facilities
• Land use cases
• Schools
• Libraries
• Job Postings
• City, Count, State services locations

In addition to the traditional representation of physical locations on a map, aHa's Drupal/Google Maps integration framework provides the ability to visually represent any site content on a map based on the geograhpic location of the content's topic by assigning a physical location to a content item (e.g., land use case, items on the Planning Commission's agenda, Police reports, business licenses). Through this capability users can search content based on geographic proximity. Examples of this capability include:

• Show me all land use cases from the past year within 5 miles of my home address
• Show me all City Council meeting minutes where topics included items that are within 2 miles of my home address
• Show me all new business licenses granted over the past month within 2 miles of a specific address
• Show me all police reports within 1 mile of my home

For more information on our Drupal/Google Maps integration framework please contact us.