Figures of '08 Google Map:
To ring in the New Year here is a Google Maps photo mashup produced by National Museums, Liverpool (UK). It features locations of photos throughout the city that display "08", the logo that celebrates Liverpool's year of being the European Capital of Culture. Note the special "08" map marker as well! :) This map doubles as a great New Year's Google Maps mashup! Happy New Year!10 Google Maps Mashups to help you ring in the New Year:Wikipedia: 2008, New Year, New Year's Day
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What's better than a good Christmas card around the holidays?? A Google Maps themed Christmas card of course! Loyal Google Maps Mania reader Emil Goh from Seoul, Korea dropped me a line with this Google Maps Christmas greeting:Hi Mike, Just wanted to say hi & merry xmas & happy new year. Made a google maps christmas card, which i hope you & your crew will like. Keep up the good work! cheers, Emil Goh - Seoul
Accompanying Emil's greeting was this great Google Maps screenshot which shows how far Santa Claus is from Christmas!!
The answer: 874 miles (about 13 hours 42 mins)..If Santa decides to take it easy and checks the "Avoid Highways" box on Google Maps he may need to break the news to Rudolph that he'll be galloping an extra 60 miles for 7 more hours. :) Take a look at the entire route between Santa Claus, Indiana and Christmas, Florida. :) Check out Emil's post about the card on Theme Magazine!More Christmas Maps fun: _______________
Embed a panoramic Google Maps Street View! - Hot on the heels of a 6 city Google Maps Street View update comes the launch of "embeddable panoramas". Now you can embed a panoramic image from street view in the same way you can embed a Google Map! Here's a sample view from just outside the arena of the greatest hockey team in the NHL: :)View Larger MapComments, ratings and top links added for My Maps:
This Google LatLong Blog post introduces some awesome new features for My Maps (Google's easy maps creation tools). If you're busy creating maps in the My Maps tab on Google Maps you are being rewarded with ways to learn more about the visitation of the map you've built and what people think! Follow the directions contained on this post to find out how many views your map has received, what the overall rating of the map is and who is linking to it. I've long maintained that the Google Maps mashup craze is creating a new chapter in the history of the web where the map is the web page. These tools help you, the "mapmaster" to take control, gain feedback on your work and be inspired to make your map even better! :) Confessions of a (Google Maps) search box - Learn about new Google content that has been added to Google Maps search: Panoramio pics, YouTube vids and Google Book Search pagesFor more Google Maps updates, click "Google Maps" below.._______________________
MapEcos: Awesome US Environmental Performance Mashup:
MapEcos is a Google Maps mashup that "presents a balanced view of industrial environmental performance." It mashes up with the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) dataset from the EPA and then displays the information logically on a map so an average person can understand what the factory down the street is spewing into the air. MapEcos was developed by students at Dartmouth College along with faculty of the business schools at Dartmouth, Duke, and Harvard. This is a fantastic UI that has some really nice clustering, search and zoom features to work with a very large dataset. This is a great mashup.Over 300 Great Lakes webcams (US & Canada) .. mapped!
This awesome webcam mashup is courtesy of AJ Hartley at Michigan/Canadian weather mashup PleasantWeather.com..CrimeReportsLive.com: Crime Reports in Dallas
Kenneth "Ellis" McCall has created a well presented crime map for Dallas, Texas. It welcomes you with a great options to learn about the free and premium service and also offers a mobile mapping service. (News coverage for this mashup)________________
Google Maps Fastest Roundtrip Calculator Tool:
The TSP (Traveling SalesPerson) Solver is great new Google Maps tool that will help you calculate the fastest round-trip from any starting point and one to many destinations. To use the tool just click on any two (or more) points on the map and the TSP Solver will automatically determine the quickest route for you to take. The tool incorporates Google Maps Driving Directions to provide you the right streets/roads to take and also calculates the round-trip time and length for you. It's a great tool to help you create a round-trip itinerary from a starting point to any number of locations! ________________
