Now we are five

Mike Pegg at Google Maps Mania points out that this is the fifth anniversary of the first Google Maps mashup, announced in a post on Craigslist:

Keep in mind that an API for Google Maps did not yet exist. This was the first act of its kind to mash data up and add it to a Google Map and as far as record keeping goes, is, the first Google Maps hack, or mashup. I've always tended to call it a hack since it's just more bad-ass and disruptive than a "mashup" sanctioned by a proper API. :)

I think we can hold our heads up as reasonably early adopters - our first serious project, a homicide map backdated to the beginning of the year, launched in mid-2005, a collaboration between editors Brett Smith, Chris Carter and me.