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Category: Google Maps | Apr 29, 2013
If there is one major disadvantage to living in London it has to be the almost perpetually oppressive grey skies. Thanks to Here Comes the Sun we lucky cockneys can now at least pretend we live somewhere sunny.
Ian Butterworth noticed that the Street View imagery in London on Google Maps looks a little dull and lifeless. He therefore devised Here Comes the Sun so that Londoners can browse their streets on Street View and see what it would look like if the sun ever shone on their grey city.
The application does a little processing of Street View in the browser to adjust the brightness of the imagery. Unfortunately because of the differences in modern browsers you will probably need to use Google Chrome to view Here Comes the Sun.
On the plus side Here Comes the Sun isn’t actually restricted to London and you can use the application to brighten up the Street View imagery anywhere in the world. 
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/oZmmYpxViu0/the-campaign-for-sunny-street-view.html
Category: Google Maps | Apr 28, 2013
Teehan+Lax created the awesome Street View Hyperlapse app that allows anyone to create their own animated movie of a drive using Google Maps Street View.
They have now released this video of them driving in Street View with Leap Motion and a hacked version of their own Street View Hyperlapse app.
Hat-tip: Google Street View World
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/38sgOQF3i_U/street-view-hyperlapse-with-leap-motion.html
Category: Google Maps | Apr 28, 2013
TweetMap
is a Google Map of a massive 95 million global tweets. Currently the
map displays geo-tagged tweets from 10th December 2012 to 30th December
2012.
If mapping 95 million twitter messages wasn’t impressive enough the map
also allows you to query the tweets by time, location, and keyword. For
example, the heat map above shows all tweets mentioning ‘Christmas’.
TweetMap really is a great resource for exploring Twitter data. Hopefully in the future TweetMap will be able to add data from a wider date range.
Thanks to Isuzu Trail View
it is now possible to take a virtual Street View drive on some of South
Africa’s best off-road trails. Isuzu equipped a Isuzu KB with a 360
degree camera and captured custom Street View imagery of four off-road
trails.
Users can select any of the four trails and view the 360 degree imagery
just as they would with Google Maps Street View. Each trail includes a
handy little feature that allows users to capture a picture of any particular
beautiful view you find and then share
the image via social media.
Climate Commons is a Google Maps based application for providing news and information on climate change in the USA.
Climate change stories are presented on the map by location. As you zoom
in on a location on the map the sidebar automatically updates to
display the stories immediately visible in the map view. Climate change data can also be viewed on the map by selecting the
category tabs in the upper left-hand corner of the map. Users can
explore the climate data by annual averages, monthly anomalies or
extreme events.
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/Xnsuenzo-cs/the-google-maps-of-week_28.html
Category: Google Maps | Apr 27, 2013
The US Census Bureau has released an animated map that shows where the mean center of the population has been for each US census from 1790 to 2010.
The Mean Center of Population for the United States 1790 to 2010 shows how the mean center of population in the US has shifted westward in the last 220 years from Kent County, Maryland to Texas County, Missouri.
French rail operator SNCF has released a nice map to help rail passengers plan great days out in France.
Le Carte des Bons Plans allows passengers to search for great places to visit on the train within a fixed rail fare. Users simply have to enter their town and city, define how much they are prepared to pay for their train ticket and then all the great destinations within range of the fare are displayed on the map.
On a more sombre note The Guardian and CartoDB have mapped every US terror attack between 1970 and 2011.
The START Global Terrorism Database monitors terror attacks around the world and has compiled details of each incident recorded since 1970. The US Terror Attacks map animates through all 2,386 US terror attacks from 1970 to 2011. 
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/D003JNnkR7k/the-non-google-maps-of-week.html
Category: Google Maps | Apr 26, 2013
Coffee company illy have created a beautiful promotional website in which photographer Gabriele Galimberti shares his experiences and photos as he tours the world and meets fellow coffee lovers.
The whole website is worth a visit at it features some great scrolling effects as well as Gabriele’s photographs and interviews. The Tour Map is also worth checking out, especially for its stunning use of the Styled Map feature in the Google Maps API.
When you load the map be sure to mouse-over the individual map markers! When you roll over the markers the whole color scheme of the map style changes. Each marker even has its own uniquely colored map tiles. 
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/mj5eQbiYvrY/the-coffee-surfers-tour-of-google-maps.html
Category: Google Maps | Apr 26, 2013
Gmap4 is a Google Maps based interface for viewing detailed topographical maps of the USA and Canada.
The application allows the user to view a number of topographical base maps using the familiar navigation tool of Google Maps. The app also comes with a really neat hill shading effect that allows the user to adjust the hill shading on the ‘Topo High’ map view.
Gmap4 contains a whole host of other useful features, such as route planning and the ability to view KML, KMZ, GPX and TPO files. It even has a feature that lets you view your GPS tracks in 3d using the Google Earth browser plugin. 
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/wsIA_IlHKE8/hill-shading-on-google-maps.html
Category: Google Maps | Apr 26, 2013
Dive Seven is a community based website for logging, sharing and researching great scuba diving locations around the world.
The Dive Seven Google Map is a useful resource to find recommended diving spots around any location. The recommended diving spots are displayed on the map with small red map markers and interesting ship wrecks are displayed with small anchor icons. The map also displays diving and marine related photographs taken in the current map view.
Users can click through on any diving location listed to view details about the spot, including diving depths, recommended diving levels required and interesting features of the dive.
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/Yo2CXQAKEhs/find-diving-locations-with-google-maps.html
Category: Google Maps | Apr 25, 2013
Climate Commons is a Google Maps based application for providing news and information on climate change in the USA.
Climate change stories are presented on the map by location. As you zoom in on a location on the map the sidebar automatically updates to display the stories immediately visible in the map view. Users can read a brief overview of the mapped climate change stories by clicking on the map markers and read the full report by selecting the ‘Full Story’ link in the map sidebar.
Users can also search for stories on a specific climate-related issue by using the filters in the sidebar or by searching for a specific term.
Climate change data can also be viewed on the map by selecting the category tabs in the upper left-hand corner of the map. Users can explore the climate data by annual averages, monthly anomalies or extreme events.
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/iGFBdQDI2SU/climate-change-on-google-maps.html
Category: Google Maps | Apr 25, 2013
The Back To Back Bay campaign is designed to help retailers in Boston who have been affected by the Boston Marathon bombings.
As part of the campaign a Google Map has been created to show the locations of retailers whose businesses have been affected by the bombings. The map displays stores that have been closed for a week or more. The campaign asks you to support these retailers by sharing their websites on Facebook or Twitter and, when they reopen, to support them with your business.
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/itdO6qNeRkg/support-boston-retailers.html
Category: Google Maps | Apr 25, 2013
324 journalists in Italy were threatened in 2012. Ma Chi Me Lo Fa Fare (Why Am I Doing This?) uses Google Maps to show the location of the 312 journalists who were threatened last year and to provide heat maps showing which Italian regions have witnessed the most threats made against journalists.
Ma Chi Me Lo Fa Fare has used the BatchGeo Google Maps creation tool to provide three different maps. The first map plots all the cases where Italian journalists have been threatened and users of the map can click on the individual map markers to read more about each individual case.
Two other maps on Ma Chi Me Lo Fa Fare provide heat maps showing where journalists have been most and least threatened in the country. 
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/IVasYMCNWyg/journalists-under-threat.html
