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Category: Google Maps | May 24, 2013
The Atlas of Public Stocks is a searchable Google Map of publicly listed companies around the world. The map allows users to locate public companies within definable distances from a given address.
If you select a marker on the map you can view detailed information about the company, including the postal and website address. The details include which sector the company is in. Probably the only thing missing on this map is the ability to filter the companies by the sector. It would be nice to be able to search the map by sector as well as by distance.
The data is there so it should be a simple task to add that option to the map.
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/XTPVTKOSirg/a-google-map-of-public-stocks.html
Category: Google Maps | May 24, 2013
xkcd Fame for GeoGuessr
GeoGuessr has rightly been getting a lot of great coverage lately. It has now even been featured in an xkcd strip.
Google Maps has featured a number of times over the years on xkcd. I think however this is the first time that a specific application using the Google Maps API has starred on its own.
Fame indeed!
Just in case you still haven’t played GeoGuessr:
The game drops you into a random Street View and then asks you to guess where in the world you are. Points are awarded for how close your guess is to the actual location.
Four Seasons in One View
Daniel Shwarz has been scanning Google Maps aerial imagery in search of locations where images taken at different times of the year have been stitched together. His post, ‘Justapose‘, includes screenshots of a number of examples. I think the images are rather beautiful.
Street View Rock Video
It has been a while since we last featured a music video created with Google Maps Street View. Here’s one from band Tereza.
It is worth watching beyond the initial timelapse sequence. Later in the video the band member’s heads have been superimposed over the blurred out heads of people in the Street View images.
Via: Google Street View World
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/qG91RcSOCCY/its-friday-fun-with-google-maps.html
Category: Google Maps | May 24, 2013
HouseinCity is a Google Maps based real-estate engine for a number of Indian cities.
HouseinCity allows house hunters to search for a property by location, price, the number of bedrooms and by the property’s builder. In what I think is a first for Indian real-estate websites, HouseinCity also offers users the option to search by commuting time.
The map includes two commuting time options. ‘Metro Connectivity’ overlays a heat map of metro travel times on the map. The heat map shows the average commuting time for a morning commute on the metro. Alternatively, for the driving times of a commute in morning traffic, users can use the ‘Project Connectivity’ option.
It is also possible to display local amenities, like schools, shopping malls etc. on the map. If you select any of the local amenities on the map you can instantly view the travel time that it will take to reach the amenity from your selected location.
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/FMQjqYb3_eU/indian-real-estate-with-commute-times.html
Category: Google Maps | May 23, 2013
gsalr.com is a garage sale, yard sale and estate sale listing service with a handy Google Maps interface and trip planner that can help you plan your weekend garage
sale trips.
If you select a sale’s marker on the map you can view details of the sale and click on the ‘add to trip planner’ button to add the sale to your personal trip planner. After you have selected all the sales that you plan to visit you can then click on the ‘View Route and Directions’ button in the side panel to open another map with a planned route and the directions to all your planned sales. 
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/64ZdmR-TA3I/find-garage-sales-plan-your-route-map.html
Category: Google Maps | May 23, 2013
Today I came across this Open Street Map of aerial imagery showing the devastating damage caused by the tornado in Moore, Oklahoma.
Unfortunately the map doesn’t have any zoom controls or an option to view aerial imagery of the same location before the tornado struck. The map, however, does include a dynamic URL that gives the latitude and longitude of the current view. Therefore, if you want to compare before and after views of the tornado, you can grab the latitude and longitude of a view and paste it into Google Maps.
The aerial view above shows Plaza Towers Elementary School. Below is the aerial view of the same school on Google Maps, taken before the tornado.
Update: Google Crisis Map now also has the same post-tornado imagery. The Google Crisis Map also includes aerial imagery taken at the end of April, so users can compare the pre and post-tornado imagery on the same map.
The New York Times has also created two evocative custom Street View images
of the devastation caused by the tornado in Moore, Oklahoma – Before and After: 360° Views From Moore.
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/CGc1zxOs2OM/post-tornado-satellitte-imagery.html
Category: Google Maps | May 23, 2013
NPR has released a map showing aerial imagery of the damage from the tornado that struck Moore, Oklahoma. Zoom In On Oklahoma Tornado Damage displays imagery collected on May 20th.
The map includes a tool to view building footprints, the tool can be turned on and off by clicking on the ‘Hide Labels’ button.
This Open Street Map map of aerial imagery also shows the devastating damage caused by the tornado in Moore.
Unfortunately the map doesn’t have any zoom controls or an option to view aerial imagery of the same location before the tornado struck. The map, however, does include a dynamic URL that gives the latitude and longitude of the current view. Therefore, if you want to compare before and after views of the tornado, you can grab the latitude and longitude of a view and paste it into Google Maps.
The aerial view above shows Plaza Towers Elementary School. Below is the aerial view of the same school on Google Maps, taken before the tornado.
Update: Google Crisis Map now also has the same post-tornado imagery. The Google Crisis Map also includes aerial imagery taken at the end of April, so users can compare the pre and post-tornado imagery on the same map.
The New York Times has also created two evocative custom Street View images
of the devastation caused by the tornado in Moore, Oklahoma – Before and After: 360° Views From Moore.
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/CGc1zxOs2OM/post-tornado-satellitte-imagery.html
Category: Google Maps | May 23, 2013
Since 1997 German artist Gunter Demnig has been creating memorials for individual victims of the Holocaust. Demnig’s stolpersteine (stumbling blocks) are small, cobblestone-sized memorials for individual victims of Nazism.
Each stolperstein is placed in the sidewalk outside the victim’s home. Stolpersteine Online is a Google Map of the memorials that have been erected. The project has created about 35,000 stumbling blocks so far. This is a very small percentage of the total number of victims of the Holocaust, however if you zoom in on any German city on this map you still can’t be overwhelmed by the sheer scale of the Nazis Holocaust. 
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/kzYtN2w73XU/victims-of-holocaust.html
Category: Google Maps | May 22, 2013
Street View Quiz is a series of quiz questions based on Google Maps Street View.
In each quiz question you are presented with a Street View and then have to answer a question related to the view presented. The questions might ask you to name something seen in the Street View or you could get a more general question about something that happened at the location.
Street View Quiz includes a simple interface that allows users to create their own questions by providing a link to a Street View and submitting the question and answer.
GeoGuessr
is a Street View geography quiz that sets you the challenge of guessing
the locations of a series of random Street View images. Using visual
clues, such as the fauna, landscape and street furniture you have to
place a pin on a global Google Map indicating where you think each
Street View image was taken.
The closer your guess to the actual location then the more points you win.
Locatestreet
is a very similar game that presents a series of random Street Views
and the player has to guess the country where the image was captured.
The featured terrain, architecture, street furniture and modes of transport
all provide clues that can help the player guess the country of origin
of the random Street View image. The game also includes three clues for
each image, but be warned – if you use a clue you will win less points.
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/jJv8Bma-MYQ/ill-name-that-mountain-in-one.html
Category: Google Maps | May 22, 2013
The New York Times have created two evocative custom Street View images of the devastion caused by the tornado in Moore, Oklahoma -Before and After: 360° Views From Moore.
The custom Street Views were captured on Tuesday and have been synced with the Google Maps Street Views that were captured in December 2007. If you pan either Street View both the before and after image moves so you can compare the images around the whole 360 degrees.
The Times captured two custom Street View images, one at South Avery Drive, between Southeast 4th and 8th Street, and the other at Southeast 4th Street and Heatherwood Drive.
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/PTiLmsqgrZQ/street-view-from-moore-oklahoma.html
Category: Google Maps | May 22, 2013
I’ve long been a fan of Vasile Cotovanu’s polygon masking effect that allows you to highlight a particular area on Google Maps. Vasile has now released a wizard app that can quickly create the GeoJSON, KML, or Google Maps API polygon code needed to create your own polygon mask.
Geomask allows you to simply draw around an area on Google Maps and just press a button to generate the polygon to create this neat masking effect. You aren’t even restricted to one area and you can highlight as many areas as you want on the map.
The tool is really easy to use. I created a polygon mask to highlight the London Olympic Park and then created a map with the mask in under two minutes using Geomask (you can see the result in the screenshot at the top of the post).
Using a polygon mask is a very effective way to highlight a specific area on a Google Map. Here are a couple of Google Maps applications that have used a similar polygon masking effect to highlight regions on the map.
Der Bayerischer Wald is a great Google Maps guide to hiking routes, accommodation and events in the Bavarian Forest region in Germany.
Ourense en Verde is using the Google Maps API to map the natural beauty of the Ourense region in Galicia, Spain. 
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/yBbxc4PKzVQ/the-polygon-masking-wizard.html
