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Category: Google Maps | Feb 10, 2010
Google have today released Buzz, a new social network, status update, photo and video sharing tool (think Twitter, FriendFeed or Wave Lite).Google Buzz for Mobile has a lot of exciting looking integration with Google Maps. Using Google Buzz on a mobile phone lets you tag your location. The tagged location will show up on your tag and your friends can click on it to see your location on Google 
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/tSGZZX_qpFQ/buzz-locations-with-google-maps.html
Category: Google Maps | Feb 10, 2010
The Geobloggers website noticed today that Google have started using Flickr photographs in Street View.When you open Street View in Google Maps the ‘User Photos’ option often appears in the top right hand corner. If you select this option you can view photographs of the same view from Panoramio, Picasa and now from Flickr.The User Photos option includes a neat ‘Photosynth’ type experience 
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/UHIjP5Ti5IU/flickr-photos-added-to-street-view.html
Category: Google Maps | Feb 10, 2010
Transparent Map ComparisonsImagine a world where Google Maps had cycle routes!This map mashup allows you to compare Google Maps with OpenStreetMaps. It is possible to select from Google Street maps, satellite imagery, topographic maps and Yahoo Maps as a base layer and then view various OpenStreetMap layers superimposed on top.The map includes a transparency slider so it is possible to adjust the
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/BoomCUuhBos/pretend-that-google-maps-has-cycle.html
Category: Google Maps | Feb 10, 2010
Google have released Street View imagery in Norway and Finland. There also seems to have been lots more Street View imagery added in Canada (including some ski runs taken by the Street View snowmobile), the USA, and Mexico.Stortinget, OsloUspenski Cathedral, HelsinkiHelsinki CathedralIn Whistler, Canada there seem to have been a lot of ski runs added. I assume these must be related to the 
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/apGDDVgg-jA/street-view-arrives-in-norway-finland.html
Category: Google Maps | Feb 10, 2010
In the UK Google have teamed up with VisitBritain to create a competition to find Britain’s best streets in three different categories; Best Foodie Street, Best Fashion Street and Most Picturesque Street.Anyone can vote for their favourite street from a shortlist of entries in each category.If you can’t be bothered to vote you should still definitely check out The Shambles, York in Street View. 
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/5vfbyQ0H6Hc/street-view-best-streets-award.html
Category: Google Maps | Feb 10, 2010
Street View FunThis Street View demo map by Lim Chee Aun shows how to rotate a Google Map so that it faces the same direction as a Street View image. As you rotate the Street View in the demo the map rotates to face the same direction.Rotating Map DemoChris Heilmann has created his own rotating map demo using CSS3 and jQuery.Use the ‘L’ and ‘R’ keys to rotate the map. Also try and pan the map for
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/FgjPDre9XVU/rotating-google-maps.html
Category: Google Maps | Feb 8, 2010
Los Angeles Storm MapAccording to the California Geological Society more than 100 Californians have been killed by debris flows during the past 25 years. Slopes left denuded by wildfires in California are especially susceptible to “mudslides” during and immediately after major rainstorms.Just such a rainstorm yesterday caused a mudslide in the La Cañada Flintridge area. The Los Angeles Times have
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/W9977166lLE/los-angeles-mudslide-maps.html
Category: Google Maps | Feb 8, 2010
Google Street Car in Berlin (NSFW)The Free Art and Technology (F.A.T.) Lab in Berlin spotted a Google Street View car in Berlin and claim to have planted a GPS device on board. They then created this Google Map which apparently tracked the vehicle live as it drove around Berlin yesterday.The map now just shows the track the car drove on Saturday, with map markers indicating the time it was at 
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/-_1JGUPiijY/tracking-street-view-car.html
Category: Google Maps | Feb 8, 2010
1000: Find ‘Em AllGlu Mobile have just launched a new iPhone game that includes a fun Google Maps based level. The Google Maps part of the game involves finding items that are scattered around the map using your current location.The items are displayed on the map and you have to travel to the marker locations in the real world to collect them.The game also uses your current location to help you 
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/uGLqqJ8mejw/google-maps-game-for-iphone.html
Category: Google Maps | Feb 7, 2010
Riccardo Paci Photograph MapThis Google Maps mashup has replaced the Google Maps tiles with a photo montage by Riccardo Paci. Italian artist Riccardo Paci creates larger images from montages of lots of smaller photographs.It isn’t very clear from the screenshot above but this image is a human eye created by assembling a number of photographs. Using the Google Maps to display the image allows the 
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/oFZgUCSfDqE/google-maps-friday-fun.html
