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This is great! It would be cool to view all the styles in one page but I guess that would cause performance issues? Anyway it's nice that the map location is persisted through all the pages :)
This was my initial idea but it did cause a few performance issues, especially on mobile devices. It's a responsive site but even with 5 Google Maps instances the performance on mobile is pretty bad. I think I might switch to just static images on mobile and then load up Google Maps for larger screens. For now you will have to make do with pagination...

Glad you noticed the persistent map bounds :D

Hey HN, I created this site and just found out via Twitter that it got submitted here! (thanks jtreminio) Had to dig up my account from a few years ago...

I whipped up the site last week and it's been getting quite a bit of traffic this weekend (by my standards). I created it after I found out that you were able to do this to Google Maps and I was looking for some solid examples.

Some of the planned features I have are:

1. A tool for creating these styles. There are a few out there but I'd like to take a crack at creating a better one.

2. Ability to register in order to favourite certain styles.

3. Add an RSS feed.

If anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear them.