Essential Resources for Google Maps

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Last Update: 2005/11/19 – Added GChart – What time is it application.
Update: For voting your favorite (thanks to J. Shirley’s recommendation), I have created a poll at Lifehack.Community. Cast your vote and feel free to recommend more implementation and I will add it on the poll list!

Google Maps is one of the web technologies that take the web to the next level. When Google introduced Google Maps with searchable and pannable interface, and recently released the API for adding implementation on the map, it creates many interest from users and developers.

Now information on the web does not need to bind to “what” and “how” already. Your piece of information can be also represent “where” with Google Maps.

For our readers, I want to provide some greatest implementations on Google Maps, to speed up your retrieval of information on “where”. This is the essential top resources for Google Maps.

If you got suggestions of other tools and resources, feel free to recommend. I will add them to the list if I see fit.

Google Maps

Top 10 Google Maps implementations:

CheapGas
“Getting best prices in your city. It is comprised of 170 gas price information web sites that help consumers find low gasoline prices. Powered by GasBuddy.”

Geobloggers
“geobloggers is a site that’s built upon two great technologys. Google Maps takes care of the mapping side and Flickr takes care of the image hosting, scaling, and so on. geobloggers mushes those two together.”

Gmaps Pedometer
“This is a little hack that uses Google’s superb mapping application to help record distances traveled during a running or walking workout.”

Google-Yahoo Traffic-Weather Map
Combined with Yahoo Traffic Feed with Google Map to show traffic condition.

Weather Bonk
“Weather maps lets you view real time weather information on a google map. This can provide some very interesting information, particularly in areas with microclimates, such as San Francisco. For example, summer in San Francisco can be particularly cold and foggy, and this map can help you to find a sunnier area of the city to visit. Clicking on the web cams give you a visual observation from a given location. Looking at wind direction can help you locate approaching weather fronts.”

Global Coordinate
“The idea behind globalcoordinate.com is to take a number of common but different web applications and put them together. You will find here an atlas, weblogs, photo-blogs, travel guides, weather reports, news sources, etc. The objective is to let users find the synergies between these concepts.”

Cell Phone Reception and Tower Search
“Consumers can search for the best carrier in their area. And with our graphical tower location search, users can pinpoint nearby tower locations. Even to the exact rooftop with satellite imagery and the help of Google Maps!”

Housing Maps
Powered by Craigslist. This Google Maps visualize where to buy houses, rent rooms around US

Tagzania
“Tagzania is about tags and places. If you register and log in, you can add places, points, to create and document your maps. When you add a point, you may tag it with keywords. That way, Tagzania is not only a place to build and keep your own maps, shared territories are created as well.”

Gchart
Quick way to find out what time is it around the world.

Worth to mention:

ChicagoCrime
“This is a non-profit, freely browsable database of crimes reported in Chicago. It is not affiliated with the Chicago Police Department or with Google Maps. It is not an official source of crime information for the city of Chicago. Rather, it is an alternative view of public record that is available elsewhere. At any given point, this site contains crime-report information spanning a 90-day period. After 90 days, the crime data is removed.”

gWiFi: Using GoogleMaps to find free WiFi
“This website is an attempt to make it easier for the road-warrior’s, students, free loaders etc to find locations that offer free wireless internet access in the New York City area by showing all free wireless nodes on a Map of New York.”

Track visitors to your website using Google Maps
“Lets you track the visitors to your website using Google Maps.”

Earthquakes in the last week
“Earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or greater in the last 7 days. Click on the menu bar to choose a new map view or create your own view by clicking to re-center the map and then zooming in to get a closer look. Click ‘link to this page’ and then bookmark the new url so you can return to your new custom view.”

Whereis
“Geolocate where the server is on Google Maps from an URL.”

ZippyWeather
“Live Australian Weather.”

Road Sign Math
“How many road signs are there that have mathematical significance. I’ve looked at many, and there are very few. Road Sign Math is the game of finding road signs that have math in them.”

toEat.com: Where do you want to eat?
“toEat.com aims to be the central point for hungry people and restaurants to congregate. Our first release is the restaurant browser system, which is only a small piece of what is on the toEat.com roadmap.”

beenmapped.com
” Never forget the location of that awesome place again. Bookmark it on BeenMapped.com!”

HotMaps
“HotorNot + Google Maps = Finding Hot People (Male or Female) by Zip Code”

Tools:

gMap it!
“gMap it is a mozilla Firefox extension that allows you to find directions from google maps based on publicly listed phone numbers.”

Mobile GMaps – Google Maps on J2ME mobile phones
“Mobile GMaps is a free piece of software that displays Google Maps and MSN Virtual Earth maps and satellite imagery on Java J2ME-enabled mobile phones or other devices.”

MapBuilder
“MapBuilder lets you build your own map with number of location and generate GoogleMap source code for this map. So you will be able to paste it directly into your web page and use it with your API key requested at Google http://www.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html. After creating your own map you will be able to save all locations with related information for future use. It means that you’ll be able to make some improvements for your map later.”

HOW-TO: Make your own annotated multimedia Google map
“This how-to will show you how to make your own annotated Google map from your own GPS data. Plus, you’ll be able to tie in images and video to create an interactive multimedia map. We’ll walk you through the steps we took to generate an annotated map of a walk we took recently through our hometown, now that it’s actually starting to get warm enough to want to walk about!”

Hacking Maps with the Google Maps API
Great guide on Google Maps API and how to make your own map implementation

MapKi
“This is meant to be a forum for sharing ideas, implementations, and help for the Google Maps API (http://www.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/). Any user can add to or edit any of the pages on the site, just like any wiki site.”

Google Maps on your Website
A how-to guide on putting a interactive map on your site

Integrating Google Maps into Your Web Applications
Tutorial on how to integrate Google Maps.

Resources:

Google Maps Mania
“An unofficial Google Maps blog tracking the websites, ideas and tools being influenced by Google Maps.”

Google Maps on Wikipedia
Good set of information on Google Maps by Wikipedia

Google Maps Group

Google Sightseeing
A blog introduces some interesting place to look at by using Google Maps’ screenshots

No particular order in each section.

  • combustibl

    Gmaps Pedometer (http://www.sueandpaul.com/gmapPedometer/) is another neat one.

    • George

      All these map resources are great but I can't help but think sometimes it might just be easier to get a decent sat nav and be done with it.

      Ofcourse a satellite navigation system wont help for general and specific map research but for getting around it sure can.

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  • http://www.beenmapped.com beenmapped

    Tagsania is a plagiraism of beenmapped.com

    beenmapped.com was released on July 11th, just the same day Tagsania registered their domain (it was launched 7 days after).

  • http://www.mgmaps.com Chris

    Tools/Worth To Mention: Mobile GMaps – Google Maps on J2ME mobile phones

    http://www.mgmaps.com

  • http://www.thingelstad.com/ Jamie Thingelstad

    How about the winners map at Road Sign Math?

    http://www.roadsignmath.com/Map.html

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  • http://www.birnamdesigns.com David W.

    What about ChicagoCrime?
    http://www.chicagocrime.org/

  • http://www.brianeng.com/blog Brian Eng

    ChicagoCrime (http://www.chicagocrime.org/) deserves a mention!

  • http://www.toeat.com J. Shirley

    Shameless plug: http://www.toeat.com

    We should bug Ian (guy who runs Mapki) to setup a “Favorite Hacks” page that lets people vote.

    And I also have to say that my top-favoritest hack has to be chicagocrime.org or busmonster.org — which aren’t on this list, and really should be. As others have mentioned, plagarism also calls this list into question.

  • http://www.lifehack.org/ Leon

    Thanks for the recommendation. I will take a look at them one by one!
    This is solely based on my opinion on what I have gathered from the past, so point to me anything that worth to mention and I will review it!

    A reader mentioned: “Tagsania is a plagiraism of beenmapped.com”, but I cannot find too many similarities between it. What do you all think?

    But for readers’ favorite – Thanks to J. Shirley’s recommendation, I have made a poll at Lifehack.Community now. Vote your favorite and feel free to recommend more implementation so that I will add it on the poll list!

    http://community.lifehack.org/poll/20050818/google_maps_implementations_poll

    • http://www.80s-fancy-dress.com 80s Fancy Dress

      I loved using Google Maps and had no idea that there were so many additional featured that could be added. Going to have some fun with it now and see which ones work out the best. Thanks for this great information.

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  • John Smith

    How could they forget Google Maps + Hot Or Not?!?!

    This one helps you find the greatest resource of all…love.

    Here’s a Link:

    http://hotmaps.frozenbear.com/

  • SheriO

    Can the Cheap Gas data really keep up with the constantly changing prices? The cheapest gas in Austin was supposed to be a block away from where I work, at $2.33, but I just went out at lunch and it was $2.49.

  • http://www.davidgoodwin.net/run dave

    Hi – I want to plug / add my running route website. It lets you look up places to go running and add your own routes, and calcualtes route length.

    – http://www.davidgoodwin.net/run

    dave

  • http://ramennoodles.com Steve

    Don’t forget about the podcast map

    http://www.podcastdirectory.com/map/

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  • Juan García

    You should add a “USA only” next to the sites that are not world friendly.

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  • http://www.oodle.com/maps Scott

    Oodle displays housing classifieds on Google Maps. It has an innovative use of Google Maps, it allows you to scroll the map to select a location. Listings are updated as you scroll, without a page refresh. Oodle has several times more listings than housingmaps and aggregates hundreds of sources.

  • http://www.oodle.com/maps Scott

    The website link was not included in my last post.
    Oodle Maps are at http://www.oodle.com/maps

  • http://www.downloadsquad.com/ Jordan

    Take a look at MyGuestmap:

    http://myguestmap.lorca.eti.br/

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  • http://www.wikyblog.com/Map/Guest/Home Frenchie

    I recommend the maps application at wikyblog.com.
    It’s a very thorough application:
    Markers, Polylines, HTML in infoWindows, Distances, GPX…

    Each map has a different url but the test/sandbox page is http://www.wikyblog.com/Map/Guest/Home

  • http://www.pixeldevelopment.com Peter

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  • http://www.mashmap.com MashMap

    MashMap: Your Movie and Showtime Map

    http://www.mashmap.com

    Find movie, showtime and theater listings in your area.

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  • http://www.gmdir.com Roberto

    http://www.gmdir.com an unofficial Google Maps Directory

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  • http://myguestmap.lorca.eti.br Herval

    Myguestmap – a guestmap tool for google maps :)

  • http://www.waywardpuppy.com Sean

    Yes, my heart pitter patters for busmonster.org as well – should be on the list!

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  • http://www.infobuy.info Ashish

    Google maps is good and i beleive Yahoo has even come up with a better answer at Yahoo shortcuts.

    Check it out.

    Regards,
    Ashish T.

  • http://explorer.altopix.com/ FatGanz

    Hi, i Have large collection of Google maps locations – http://explorer.altopix.com/ . Be real Explorer :)

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  • http://querocarromogi.com/gmapsbrasil GMapsBrasil

    :: GMapsBrasil ::

    Brazilian GMaps archival site, written in portuguese!

    Fast (flickr + del.icio.us) tags enable!

  • http://www.web-helfer.de wanagi

    on http://www.topspot-ornot.com there is a nice project which makes a combination of google maps, hotornot and wikipedia. it provides a lot of interesting sites and you can easily browse it.

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  • FishTail

    Hotel & Hostel Search Engine with Google Maps. http://www.tripmojo.com

  • http://dosguide.com piksar

    Here’s another implementation of google maps. It’s dynamic w/ driving direction.

    http://www.dosguide.com

    It’s a shopping portal for Downtown Los Angeles Area.

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  • John

    Also worth to mention the great j2memaps, at http://j2memaps.landspurg.net. contains a nice direction feature, and work on most MIDP2.0 phones (at least on my Nokia)

  • http://www.panoramio.com Eduardo Manchón

    We just launched Panoramio.com, a new photo-sharing community over Google Maps.

  • http://www.blogabond.com/ Travel Blog

    Check out the World Browser at blogabond.com

    http://www.blogabond.com/WorldBrowser.aspx

  • Julian Reynolds

    You should try checking out http://ononemap.com – it’s much better than housingmaps, just for sheer comprehensiveness alone but it’s also fantastically usable AND RSS enabled! I’m hooked.

  • http://www.classifiedsline.com/ Peter Fink

    I agree there … Google maps is good and i beleive Yahoo has even come up with a better answer at Yahoo shortcuts.

    :-)

  • Jessica

    Environmental Defense has created a Google Maps integration with their website at http://environmentaldefense.org/esastories.cfm?esa&story=42

    It shows pins on a Google Map where people have stories of their first hand accounts with endangered species in their area. The map acts as the navigation interface to browse these stories.

  • http://www.barcelonapoint.com Fernando

    Here is a mash-up of google earth and barcelona attractions

    http://www.barcelonapoint.com/en/apartments_google_map/

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  • http://www.worldbusinessforsale.com Business for sale

    Many thanks for creating this blog site. this is really helpful for me and my friends!
    We would be honored if we could be added to this business blogger. We are from the World Business for sale is the leading independent businesses for sale listing service

  • Michelle

    I posted this to the lifehack site, however, I thought a repost might be a good idea.

    I’ve found another traceroute/Google Maps mashup. This tool allows you to traceroute by IP address or host name to see the path the packets take. You can run the trace from their server or from your PC. It’s pretty slick, and has some settings you can tweak for doing the traceroute. It also can also do “whois” queries when you click on one of the hops (to find out that hop’s IP). And if you just want to know where any particular computer/server/IP is you can also type in the IP or host name in their ping tool and find out if the host is up, where it is, and get the “whois” record. Seems like a very useful site/tool.

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  • http://www.pintomap.com M.C.U.

    Find thousands of localized Wikipedia-articles in PINTOMAP!

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  • http://www.telecombestbuy.com alex

    BUSINESS PROPOSAL LETTER.
    We have all brands of Mobile Phones,Ipods,Sidekicks,Nextels phone,Laptops for sell at cheap and
    affordable prices, they ranges from Nokia/Samsung/LG/Sony
    Ericsson/Motorola/Alcatel
    /panasonic With Bluetooth, all
    Brands and Models of Nextel Phones,Note they are all Brand New T2 Euro specs,
    unlocked, no operator logo, come in their
    original sealed box, With 1 year international warranty
    from the manufacturer.

  • http://winegeeks.com/ Wine Geek

    Maps for wine AVAs (American Viticultural Areas) that depict winery locations using Google Maps:

    Map of Finger Lakes
    Map of Napa Valley
    Map of Willamette Valley

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  • http://www.runningpaths.org Rob

    I just launched http://www.runningpaths.org. It’s a Wiki-style Google-maps running path tracking site. No logins are needed to create or even edit a path. No GPS device needed either.
    –rob

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  • http://www.workingidea.com/ tom

    Yeah, it’s a plug for… me, but here’s an implementation that integrates Yahoo’s geocoding to make the process much quicker – it’s dom-friendly and requires only two files. http://www.workingidea.com/lab/secondmap

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  • http://www.imear.com Justin

    Check out my online travelblog at http://www.imear.com. Its a place fpr global travellers to track their world journeys, keep track of friends and maintain an online blog or travel diary. Its still a Beta site with new bits and pieces being added every day and as with all new things any comments or suggestions are most appreciated. If you want to check out my personal blog see http://www.imear.com/g-nome.

  • http://www.imear.com Justin

    Check out my online travelblog at http://www.imear.com. Its a place for global travellers to track their world journeys, keep track of friends and maintain an online blog or travel diary. Its still a Beta site with new bits and pieces being added every day and as with all new things any comments or suggestions are most appreciated. If you want to check out my personal blog see http://www.imear.com/g-nome.

  • http://www.personmaps.com Matt Newman

    There is a cool site for mapping people’s addresses that are in the phonebook at:

    http://www.personmaps.com

    It is a great implementation of Google Maps, especially good for finding old friends or looking up people in different states.

  • http://photomap.mozdev.org Adam

    Creating a better map:

    http://photomap.mozdev.org

    Kind of a DIY maps.a9.com

    We still need about 20 million more pictures…

  • http://www.wherewhenwhy.co.uk/ travel inspiration

    Great list >>

    Would like to add my site WhereWhenWhy, the Travel Inspiration & Guide site. Pretty rudimentary Google Maps for now, but more coming…

    Anyone know when the ‘rest’ of the world is going to get some more detail?

  • http://www.shawngo.com shawngo

    I have a few Google Map pages myself. I have a Fishing Spot locator at http://www.shawngo.com/hotspots.php

    as well as a traffic cam / outdoor webcam finder at http://www.shawngo.com/trafficams.php

    and also a Gentleman’s Club Locator linked from the hotspots page.

    I also made a site similar to apartment.com using Google Maps and Yahoo Local Search API. Worked out nice using a geocoding service!

    Shawn

  • http://www.virtualtrespassing.com Eric

    I have a virtual billboard web site.

    http://www.virtualtrespassing.com

  • http://www.HomePriceMaps.com HomePriceMaps

    http://www.HomePriceMaps.com compliments
    thie HousingMaps site quite well.

    while HousingMaps integrates Craigs list homes currently for sale and rent
    with Google Maps, http://www.HomePriceMaps.com integrates how much homes SOLD for
    with the google mapping technology

  • http://racingmaps.blogspot.com/ Vidal

    Another great implementation of Google Racing Circuits Satellite Maps. Check it out here:
    http://racingmaps.blogspot.com/

  • http://www.pokermashup.com mark stephens

    Find the 10 closest casinos based on your zipcode.

  • http://www.pokermashup.com mark stephens

    The website didn’t come out on that last posting …. http://www.pokermashup.com

  • http://www.shawngo.com shawngo

    I have a new map with almost 2 million locations. Basically all sorts data on geographical locations for all 50 states.

    I managed to page the results so i’m not displaying 5,0000 lakes from one state!

    http://www.shawngo.com/gmaps/states.php

    cheers

  • http://www.geniee.com/ nazzy

    kool site

  • http://www.usatf.org/routes alanroth

    If you are a runner and like GmapsPedometer, check out America’s Running Routes at http://www.usatf.org/routes. It provides the same mapping functions as Gmaps but it allows you to save it for others to use. There are over 18,000 routes now in the database. It’s the place to go for running routes when you are traveling.

  • http://www.shawngo.com/gmaps/states2.php shawngo

    This map has nearly 2 million locations for all 50 US states and about 50 different types of locations including lakes, streams, bridges, glaciers, almost anything you can think of!!

    Pretty cool. Just updated to Google Maps 2.44 and it worked out nice.

    Lemme know what you think!

    Shawn

  • http://wind.cube.gr cirrus

    Also check out the WiND – Wireless Nodes Database project at http://wind.cube.gr . It’s an open source project aimed at wireless communities. It uses google maps to display nodes and wireless links on the map.

  • http://virtualtourism.blogspot.com/ Cornea

    http://virtualtourism.blogspot.com/ is another great Google maps site that features satellite images of world wide tourist destinations. What makes Virtual Tourism unique is that it includes videos of the features sites.

  • Ádám

    Does any of You know about a j2me application to run on mobile phones which fetches NMEA data from an attached BT GPS receiver and writes them into a MySQL database through GPRS connection? Than later You can visualize the position of these handies on your web site using gmaps

  • http://www.petflight.com Chris

    Airports where pets have been reported lost, injured, or killd during transport. http://www.petflight.com/pet-incidents/map

  • http://www.isharemaps.com Convert Postcode to Lat & Long

    We have an UK geocoder that can be used to create Google Map mashups.

    You can find it at http://www.isharemaps.com

  • dan

    Here’s on just featured by google maps.
    http://www.las-vegas-maps.com shows las vegas strip hotels

  • http://www.sellhouse.com.au andy

    The 1st in Australia property portal with the interactive Google map. We cover properties for 8,000+ suburbs in all the States. You can find it at
    http://www.sellhouse.com.au

  • http://www.gophernow.com oms

    Just launched gophernow.com – combining time sensitive information with restaurants for a utility for late night food.

  • http://www.stickymap.com msklar

    http://www.stickymap.com was recently launched. It allows all site visitors to annotate the map, wiki style.

  • http://SQUIBY mrPib

    http://www.squiby.com is in beta.

    Free event listings with maps.

  • James
  • http://www.CollegeToolkit.com/Hangouts.aspx Mark

    Shows bars / restaurants / music venues near college campuses. Users can vote and add their own favorites.

  • http://www.CollegeToolkit.com/Hangouts.aspx Mark

    At http://www.collegetoolkit.com/Hangouts.aspx, you can see Google Maps of college campuses and the bars / restaurants / music venues near each school. Users can vote and add their own favorites.

  • http://www.easyschoolsearch.com bes

    http://www.easyschoolsearch.com went recently live. It offers location Maps of over 130000 us schools. Lets you map schools by searches or zipcodes .

  • http://RedLightCamerasGoogleMaps jeff
  • http://www.photoenforced.com/us.html Jeff

    Red Light Cameras Google Maps
    http://www.photoenforced.com/us.html

  • http://www.rightbiz.co.uk business for sale

    I know this is about the third post I’ve made on Google Maps in the last few weeks but including this one on cheap gas locations and this one on hybrid maps.

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  • http://www.lucagianluca.com/party_pictures.htm Gianluca

    Another implementation of google map…
    PARTY PICTURES FROM THE WORLD
    http://www.lucagianluca.com/party_pictures.htm

  • http://www.prague-spot.com Marek

    You may want to check out Prague’s attractions on the Google map at

    http://www.prague-spot.com/prague-map

  • http://www.multicherry.com/mapshadow/mapshadow.htm Multicherry

    We must be approaching the millionth application of Google maps… do I get a prize or something?!

    This one is a real-time, constantly-updated display, showing where on earth sunrise and sunset are occurring *right now*.

    Zoom in close enough, and you can actually watch the sunlight(daytime)/shadow(nighttime) boundaries (*) as they move across the landscape, bringing sunrise or sunset to a new part of the earth as it turns in space.

    http://www.multicherry.com/mapshadow/mapshadow.htm

    Spiel over… it might be educational for some people, but I hope it’s fun too.. :-)

    (*) Also known as the terminator. No, not *that* terminator….

  • http://kiwitracks.blogspot.com Kiwitracks

    If you’re interested in New Zealand’s back-country and mountains, have a look at tour descriptions and GPS tracks on Google Maps on the Kiwi Tracks Blog

  • http://www.homemap.com.au Tim

    Another great Google Maps implementation in Australia:
    http://www.homemap.com.au

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  • http://moviemappr.com barconati

    Another site is moviemappr.com”. Moviemappr allows users to find major motion pictures that were filmed near you. You can see the results in a Google map and even buy the movies through Amazon’s ecommerce service.

  • http://genesmith.org ncho

    http://genesmith.org/connectivity-map/

    The purpose of this Google Map is to show how connected an African country is based on total population, number of internet users, 2005 growth in user-base, overall population penetration, and landline/cell phone usage.

    I’ve set the map up so that each country is actually an individual blog post. That way, if, for example, you know of any internet cafes within a given country, you can add your comments to the post and it will be accessible via the map.

  • http://www.pressthatbutton.com Technojos

    New google map based site for all the ‘Lost’ TV drama fans.A must see for Lost fans.

  • http://www.baseballiconography.com GeorgeHCounter

    Here’s a new google maps directory I found in del.icio.us:

    http://www.gmapsdirectory.com

    Hope they list my mashup

  • http://www.locoblog.com paul

    Check out this phone app that allows you to record your real-time journeys on a google maps photo blogging site

  • http://www.grandprix-live.com/calendar Vidal

    Hi,

    I’ve just finished my Ajax Google Calendar reader in Combination with Google Maps, it’s working pretty good.
    The Google Maps feature in combination with a public shared google calendar only works if the “where” field is filled in properly! (ie: Amsterdam, Netherlands or coordinates)

    “Next update is to plot the locations on the Map!”

    Google Calendar + Google Maps Demo
    http://www.grandprix-live.com/calendar/

    With kind regards,
    Vidal de Wit

  • http://hotel-map.4hotels.us/ Clay

    a good US hotel map directory covering more than 5000 cities – http://hotel-map.4hotels.us

  • http://www.notetrace.co.uk anon

    really neat mashup for tracking banknotes!

    from the site http://www.notetrace.co.uk:

    “notetrace.co.uk allows you to track the geographical location of your bank notes. Using the unique serial numbers on the notes, you can see the path the note takes and the shops/locations the transactions take place.”

    i’m addicted!!

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    With more than 60 million people currently using online maps, I guess the mashups population will grow even more.

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