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As detailed in my last post, we've been using YouTube CFC to communicate metadata changes between our admin and YouTube.  This morning, I discovered that the stock code was creating temp XML files to send to YouTube, then deleting them right away.  (Clearly, I hadn't looked at the underlying code very hard before now.)  

This caused a problem for us because of the way our FTP mirroring works between our development and production servers.  Essentially, the FTP software was getting confused by all the little vanishing XML files, so it was locking up and refusing to transfer any files at all.

I had a request yesterday to mashup several of our Google Maps into one map, so that we could have a comprehensive view of things we do across the state.  This seemed like it should be ridiculously simple, but Googling didn't really turn up anything.  After a few more variants on the search, I came across this code snippet, which I adapted into the following:

Example Google Maps mashup (demo with source code)

This version uses jQuery to automatically generate the toggle buttons, but it should work just fine without them.