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The All Points Blog points to a post on urban travel site Gridskipper that wistfully hopes people will start doing more mashing up of the many mashups that are already out there. In this case, it’s a pair of Google Maps mashups that show the locations of fast-food restaurants in one case, and demographic information in another. “I’d love to see a Google map mashup that allows you to search the Census data through fast food locations so you could find the median income level, ethnicity and age around a specific Burger King location,” Gridskipper says. (In fact, would it be possible to write an app that could automatically mash up any two mashups? That would be beautiful.) I love the idea of mashing together mashups like this. And especially when applied to maps, it’s just the kind of 3pointD stuff that’s tying the Web ever more closely to the real world.