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Category: Google Maps | May 13, 2013
The Center for Urban History of East Central Europe has created two interesting Google Maps exploring the history of Lviv, Ukraine.
The Lviv Interactive Map shows the locations of buildings, events and people who have been important in the history of the city. The locations are sorted by category and subcategories. For example, the history category of markers includes the sub-categories of Fin-de-siècle City, the Holocaust in Lviv, Jewish city, Postsocialist city, Sacred city, Secession City and Socialist City.
The Plan of Lemberg / Lviv uses the Google Maps API to display an 1863 map of the city, the ‘Plan von Lemberg’.
Using the familiar Google Maps navigation tools users can zoom in on details of the map. Quick links to zoom in on important locations on the map are displayed in the map sidebar. 
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/RDB6Eqq-XTo/now-and-then-on-google-maps.html
Category: Google Maps | May 12, 2013
Two Google Maps really seemed to capture people’s imagination this week; The Flat Route Finder and the Hate Map.
The Flat Route Finder was the most shared map on social media at the beginning of the week. While, after its release on Friday, the Hate Map quickly went viral on social media and almost as quickly was picked up by a number of the websites of the national and international press.
The Hate Map is a heat map of offensive messages made on Twitter.
The map shows the rough location of every geocoded tweet in the United
States from June 2012 – April 2013 that contained one or more of ten
‘hate words’.
The offensive words mapped include ‘racist’, ‘homophobic’ and ‘anti-disability’ terms. Users of the map can view heat maps not only of these general themes but can also explore heat maps of the ten individual hate words.
As a semi-keen cyclist the thing I hate most in the world (after cars, buses and trucks) is hills. I really, really hate hills.
Thankfully I can now use the Flat Route Finder
to find cycling routes that avoid the steepest slopes. The Flat Route
Finder uses the Google Maps elevation service to suggest the flattest
possible cycling route. Two elevation graphs are also provided to show
you the steepest parts of the route and the route itself is colour-coded
to show you the easiest and most difficult stages of the journey.
Also this week, The New York Times published an interesting Medicare Map that shows how much different hospitals charge Medicare throughout the country, for the same treatment.
The map compares the charges made at 3,300 hospitals nationwide for the
100 most commonly performed treatments and procedures. The colored
markers on the map show whether individual hospitals charged less than
the average (blue markers), 1 to 2 times the average (yellow) or twice
the national average (red).
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/woMabgYbfQI/the-google-maps-of-week_12.html
Category: Google Maps | May 11, 2013
The big news in online mapping this week was the launch of OpenStreetMap’s new map editor iD. iD has been designed to lower the threshold for users to edit OpenStreetMap data.
Central to this mission of easing users into the skills needed to add to OpenStreetMap is a great introductory walk-through tutorial. When you first open the editor an interactive tutorial guides you through some of the important features of editing OpenStreetMaps.
iD is a great improvement on the old OpenStreetMaps editing tools and greatly reduces the learning curve for new OpenStreetMap editors.
Ancient Maps of Jerusalem is a great new interactive tool to browse the National Library of Israel’s collection of maps of Jerusalem.
A timeline interface allows users to browse the maps by date. The earliest map is Civitas Iherusalem, dating from 1486 and the timeline includes hundreds of maps, right up to the Map of Jerusalem and Environs, dated 1935.
If you click on any of the map images you can view the map in a larger format. This larger format includes a handy little magnifying glass tool that allows you to view any section of the map in close-up detail. 
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/6HV5xleBy4Q/the-maps-of-week.html
Category: Google Maps | May 11, 2013
The Hate Map is a heat map of offensive messages made on Twitter.
The map shows the rough location of every geocoded tweet in the United States from June 2012 – April 2013 that contained one or more of ten ‘hate words’.
Every tweet was read by a human to determine that only messages meant as negative were used on the map. Users of the map can view three different heat maps, one for homophobic tweets, one for racist tweets and one anti-diasabled tweets. The user can also view individual heat maps for any one of the ten offensive words.
At first sight the heat maps appear to be very simialr to a population heat map of America but if you look in more detail you can see that there is more than just population density at work in hate messages on Twitter. For example, relatively densely populated California, seems to be also relatively free of hate speech.
You can find out more about the methodology behind the making of this map at the excellent Floating Sheep blog. 
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/7kJOfJiML3w/the-american-hate-map.html
Category: Google Maps | May 11, 2013
The Hate Map is a heat map of offensive messages made on Twitter.
The map shows the rough location of every geocoded tweet in the United States from June 2012 – April 2013 that contained one or more of ten ‘hate words’.
Every tweet was read by a human to determine that only messages meant as negative were used on the map. Users of the map can view three different heat maps, one for homophobic tweets, one for racist tweets and one anti-diasabled tweets. The user can also view individual heat maps for any one of the ten offensive words.
At first sight the heat maps appear to be very simialr to a population heat map of America but if you look in more detail you can see that there is more than just population density at work in hate messages on Twitter. For example, relatively densely populated California, seems to be also relatively free of hate speech.
You can find out more about the methodology behind the making of this map at the excellent Floating Sheep blog. 
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/A23Mdo3kORY/the-american-hate-map.html
Category: Google Maps | May 10, 2013
The St. Paul Crime Map is a Google Map of crime committed in St.Paul, Minnesota.
Currently users can view crime committed in the city during January and February of this year. It is possible to filter the results shown on the map by type of crime and turn on and off the neighborhood boundaries via links in the map sidebar.
If you click on a crime’s marker on the map you can view details of the crime, presented beneath a Street View of the crime’s location.
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/ctBJ7JJwBus/st-paul-crime-on-googe-maps.html
Category: Google Maps | May 10, 2013
The St. Paul Crime Map is a Google Map of crime committed in St.Paul, Minnesota.
Currently users can view crime committed in the city during January and February of this year. It is possible to filter the results shown on the map by type of crime and turn on and off the neighborhood boundaries via links in the map sidebar.
If you click on a crime’s marker on the map you can view details of the crime, presented beneath a Street View of the crime’s location.
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/kPedcawnjUI/st-paul-crime-on-googe-maps.html
Category: Google Maps | May 10, 2013
First there was the SF Live Bus map, then came the PDX Live Map (for Portland), now Seattle has its own animated live real-time map of its Metro Transit network.
Busdrone uses Google Maps to show the real-time location of Seattle’s buses. Load up the map, sit back and watch as little blue markers navigate Seattle’s streets. Hypnotic!
If you want to create one of these maps for your own city’s bus network all you need is a timetable and a little peak at the code on GitHub.
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/k2ZTx53ta7I/seatlles-buses-live-on-google-maps.html
Category: Google Maps | May 10, 2013
First there was the SF Live Bus map, then came the PDX Live Map (for Portland), now Seattle has its own animated live real-time map of its Metro Transit network.
Busdrone uses Google Maps to show the real-time location of Seattle’s buses. Load up the map, sit back and watch as little blue markers navigate Seattle’s streets. Hypnotic!
If you want to create one of these maps for your own city’s bus network all you need is a timetable and a little peak at the code on GitHub.
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/j-oYX3cIOtQ/seatlles-buses-live-on-google-maps.html
Category: Google Maps | May 10, 2013
Popturf is a Google Map of important locations in popular culture. It can help you find out where your favorite movies or television shows were shot, where music history was made and even where your favorite books were set.
You can view all the Popturf locations on one Google Map or view individual maps showing you locations in Movies, Music, Television, Literature, Comic Books, Video Games, Technology, Art & Design and History.
Registered users can contribute to the Popturf map by adding new locations.
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/YUClAlONR2w/pop-culture-on-google-maps.html
