Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Gas Price Map

On my road trip to Southern California this weekend, I was thinking it’d be great to have a map that shows you all of the cheapest places to buy gas, along the route you’re traveling.  I’ve been using http://www.gasbuddy.com for many years now, but the default page only has textual information for gas prices and addresses.  I thought about creating a mashup and placing these prices on a mapping display, and in researching this mini project, it turns out that this feature already exists!  I didn’t realize that until today, so I thought I’d share the link.  This would be handy on a road trip, or even finding cheap gas in a foreign local city, such as Fremont.

http://www.gasbuddy.com/Map_Gas_Prices.aspx

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