Map Mash-Ups for the Rest of Us??

Mapping mash-ups have been the rage, but personally I've been "underwhelmed" with the mash-ups I've experienced. Why?

1. Creating a mash-up required more coding skill than I cared to learn
2. Ditto for most people
3. Thus, map mash-ups were mainly created by programmers

This may all be about to change. Today, Google has released a new service named "My Maps". Via what appears to be an easy graphical interface, one may now create "and share" mash-ups.  This new feature should increase geometrically the mash-ups available, and content will now be created by normal folk (or nearer to normal)! Over the weekend, I'll play around with this service and post more comments, perhaps even a screencast.

Ziff Davis has an article you may wish to read about the new Google service.