Looking for love in all the wrong places? A new application powered by Google Maps and a personals Web site might just have the answer.

Dubbed "HotMaps", it allows users to roughly pinpoint where a subscriber of American dating site HotOrNot lives.

Once a specific location on the HotMaps Web site is selected, a list of markers will appear. These signposts will then denote where subscribers to the dating site live.

When a user clicks on one of the markers, the service fetches profiles, including pictures, from HotOrNot's database.

Created by programmers Jeff Marshall and Greg Lin of Frozenbear in the United States, the new application is one of many "mash ups" that allow developers to create and map data using application program interfaces (APIs) that are publicly available from Google.

Full story: ZDNet Australia