Finally, I spared some time on upgrading adorr.net from WordPress 2.6 to 2.8, skipping the 2.7 Coltrane that was a big leap from 2.6, mainly on the back-end changes for user interface and some core architectures.

Some notable features and upgrades on WordPress 2.8 (The Baker) after 2.7 are:

• - Faster and smoother back-end admin panel;
• - New (easier to use) theme install capabilities;
• - Syntax highlighting in the code editor;
• - Improved Widget user interface and support for using more than one widget of the same type;
• - New screen options in every page to better organize the items on the screen.

Although upgrading WordPress is known to be simple and straightforward, I still followed through the WordPress Official Upgrade Guide as I couldn’t afford to lose anything on my site. As usual (bet they haven’t change much on their upgrade guide for some time), it takes only three simple steps. Particularly, the following was what I did to get WordPress 2.8, mainly detailed elaborations on the three simple steps…
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Google Maps has made its presence for quite some time now, and we have seen many sites utilizing it for various purposes. This includes SinGeo and maplandia.com.

In this post, I would like to talk about the indepth of how we can overlay multiple maps in one display, and allowing to toggle between maps in real-time, all these with the available functions of addOverlay(), removeOverlay(), and clearOverlays().

I would assume that you have already known the basic of Google Maps. If you have not, check out the Basics of Google Maps.

I will start off with a simple demonstration of 3 overlapping google maps (using KML taken from SinGeo)

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• MRT Stations
• Webcams
• Wifi Hotspots

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