January 28th | Neighborhoods Reviewed with Google Maps

StreetAdvisor is a well thought out website that helps people to find great streets, neighborhoods and cities to live, based on the opinions of the people who actually live there. [...]

January 27th | The Forgotten Poland on Google Maps

Forgotten.pl is a Polish website dedicated to abandoned buildings, rail-roads, underground tunnels, castles, military sites and any other locations that have long been neglected. The site has a huge database [...]

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Gerrymandering Shown with Google Maps

The New York World has produced an excellent Google Maps based visualisation of the Proposed New York Senate Districts. This visualisation of the proposed rezoning works brilliantly in map form, [...]

Resources to support a new and open world for learning

Googlers are the types who never really leave the classroom. Guest speakers come to campus to give talks on subjects ranging from fiction to physics. Diverse groups of people work [...]

Ontario Election Results on Google Maps

Global News has created a series of Google Maps to visualise the 2011 Ontario election results. Ontario Election Maps shows the results of 24,094 polls in six maps: plurality winner [...]

Google Earth 6.2: It’s a beautiful world

We’re taking bird’s eye view to a whole new level with the latest version of Google Earth, released today. With Google Earth 6.2, we’re bringing you the most beautiful Google [...]

MetroCard Use Visualised on Google Maps

The Wall Street Journal created this great data visualisation to show how New Yorkers are using different kinds of MetroCards on the city’s public transit network. Examining MetroCard Usage uses [...]

An Opacity Control Slider for Google Maps

Gavin Harris has released the code for an Opacity Control for Google Maps. The control is a slider button that can be used to adjust the opacity of map overlays [...]

Australian Rain Radars on Google Maps

BOMMap is an Australian weather map that allows users to view animations of the latest radar images from Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology. The initial view of BOMMap shows where it [...]

Public Alert Warnings Now on Google Maps

Google has just launched Google Public Alerts, a Google Maps based website to bring you information about relevant emergency alerts in your area. The map shows weather alerts, public safety [...]


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