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The Chinese New Year on Google Maps

Category: Google Maps | Feb 19, 2010

Tiger Beer iPhone AppTiger Beer have released an iPhone app that lets Londoners discover entertainment and activities in the city to do with the Chinese New Year. Of course, the app also lets you find nearby restaurants and bars that serve Tiger Beer.The app includes a game and an augmented reality feature. The AR feature allows you to view points of interest around you through the phone’s

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Finding a Place to Rent with Google Maps

Category: Google Maps | Feb 18, 2010

The RentablesThe Rentables is a rental property listings website that uses Google Maps to show the locations of rental properties. The site provides a number of interactive filters to narrow property search results. These filters make it easy to search by location, price, unit size and other characteristics.The site includes free listings posted by private users and is integrated with the

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Google Maps Store Locator Plugin

Category: Google Maps | Feb 18, 2010

Google Maps Store Locator Plugin for WordpressViadat have produced a Google Maps Store Locator plugin for Wordpress. The plugin enables you to create sites in Wordpress to show the locations of stores and points of interest.The plugin allows users to import locations from CSV files and can export locations to CSV and XML for safe storage. The plugin also supports a number of themes so that you

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Biking the World with Google Maps

Category: Google Maps | Feb 18, 2010

RiderpediaRiderpedia is a website for motorcyclists to share and log their favourite journeys. Bikers can use the site to create travel logs of their journeys, which can be illustrated with photographs and videos, all of which can then be viewed on a Google Map.The site also has a great journey planner. To plan a journey you just need to enter the starting location and the destination. You can

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Google’s Liquid Galaxy

Category: Google Maps | Feb 17, 2010

CNN with Mike PeggGoogle’s Liquid Galaxy is a Google Earth booth that uses eight screens to give the user a very immersive experience of Google’s 3D globe.CNN have just put out this video of Google Maps Mania founder Mike Pegg demonstrating a fly-through of San Francisco._____________

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Nice Real Estate Google Maps Mashup

Category: Google Maps | Feb 17, 2010

Itssold.caBack in April 2005 Paul Rademacher created the first Google Maps and real-estate mashup, HousingMaps. Itssold.ca provides a nice comparison to Paul’s original real-estate map, showing how things have developed in the last five years.Housing Maps pulled in data from Craigslist and allowed users to filter results by property prices. Itssold.ca has far more extensive filtering of your

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New Orleans Homicides on Google Map

Category: Google Maps | Feb 17, 2010

New Orleans Murder MapThis Flash based Google Map shows the locations of New Orleans murders in 2009. It is possible to search the map by zip code, police district, month of the year or by cause of death. The map shows that the majority of murders were caused by gun shot wound. In terms of location the map shows that police districts 3 and 8 seem to have the lowest murder rates._____________

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Find a Mailbox with Google Maps

Category: Google Maps | Feb 17, 2010

Mailbox MapMailbox Map is a Google Maps mashup showing the locations of mailboxes in the USA.Search for an address or zip code and Mailbox Map will display the locations of mailboxes in that area. If you click on a mailbox map marker the map will display the box’s collection times.The site also has a mobile phone version of the map that displays USPS mailboxes, US post offices

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Wi-fi Locator App for iPhone

Category: Google Maps | Feb 16, 2010

Laptopfriendlycafes.comLaptopfriendlycafes.com is a website dedicated to finding and listing free wifi locations that are also laptop user friendly.Each individual cafe listing on the site comes with a ‘Directions’ link that leads to the cafe’s location on Google Maps. The site also has a very handy iPhone app.The iPhone app contains the listings for New York, London, Melbourne and Sydney. The

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Google Buzz on Google Maps

Category: Google Maps | Feb 16, 2010

Google Buzz MapA lot of you have probably been enjoying the Buzz layer in Google Maps for Mobile. It is also possible to view the Buzz layer for Google Maps on your home computer.Click here to load the Google Maps for Mobile map in your browser. Then choose ‘Buzz’ from the ‘Layers’ menu (bottom left corner). The map will then display the buzzes around your current location.If you want to check

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