When I said standalone mode “crapped itself”. What I really meant was “I’m an idiot for trying to make standalone mode render my poorly formed XML”. Check out the Lincoln traffic cameras map [link no longer works] in all its glory. Thanks for the great tool Phil! Here is his cool map of live Seattle 911 incidents.
RobotSkirts 
You might be interested in this, to make this sort of thing easier:
myGmaps enables you to create, save and host custom data files and display them with Google Maps.
This site is “alpha” quality–while we will endeavour not to delete your account and data there are no guarantees. There are a limited number of accounts available for testing purposes. At present each user can create approximately 10 maps with 10 locations each.
myGmaps is not an official or authorised Google service.
–Phil.
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Umm, that URL was:
http://stuff.rancidbacon.com/mygmaps/mygmaps.cgi
–Phil.
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