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Category: Google Maps | Aug 3, 2010
GiveMeTapGiveMeTap is a service to help you find drinkable tap water in Manchester, England. Restaurant or café owners in Manchester can sign up as providers to supply free access to clean tap water to those who carry a branded GiveMeTap life-time aluminium water bottle.You can search GiveMeTap by street name and you will be shown a Google Map showing your location and the nearest GiveMeTap
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Category: Google Maps | Aug 3, 2010
The Brazilian general election of 2010 will be held on Sunday, October 3, 2010. Ahead of the election Google have produced a dedicated web page showing search trends for the candidates and a Google Map of the candidates’ campaigns.Follow the CandidatesGoogle have produced this Google Map to show the candidates’ campaigns during the election. For each point visited by the candidates you can view
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Category: Google Maps | Aug 3, 2010
Food GPSJoshua Lurie’s mission in life appears to be to travel a lot and to eat as much good food as possible. Consequently Joshua eats as many as a dozen restaurant meals a week. When he comes across a meal that’s really good he shares it with the world through Food GPS.On the right hand side of Food GPS is a drop down menu that displays locations. If you choose any of the locations from the
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Category: Google Maps | Aug 3, 2010
MisoTrendyMisoTrendy helps you find the most popular places around any location on a Google Map. MisoTrendy uses trending data from foursquare and shows currently checked-in users, tips and mayorships from the most popular venues in real-time.With MisoTrendy you can search around any location. You can also search for specific types of venue, such as cafes, restaurants or parks. If you click on a
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Category: Google Maps | Aug 3, 2010
RouteCNGfinderOwners of cars that have been converted into bi-fuel vehicles can often have difficulties finding gas stations that sell compressed natural gas (CNG). This can be particularly true if drivers are on long journeys in areas that they are unfamiliar with. In Europe routeCNGfinder can help drivers plan routes that take them via gas stations that sell CNG.The service currently works in
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Category: Google Maps | Aug 2, 2010
Where Spam OriginatesGoogle’s e-mail and web security and archiving service Postini has created a Spam Threat Map. The map shows where e-mail spam messages are originating in real time (although the map itself doesn’t appear to be real-time). It seems that many of those Nigerians wanting to give me money don’t actually come from Nigeria. In fact according to the map Europe and India seem to be
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/rdZwlTpU4I4/google-spam-map.html
Category: Google Maps | Aug 2, 2010
Blocks and LotsBlocks And Lots is a new API that provides easy access to NYC’s property records. The new API enables you to incorporate detailed property information into all kinds of web and mobile sites and apps.The Blocks And Lots API gives you access to more than 5 million NYC property records from the Departments of Finance, Buildings, and City Planning.In the demo of the service you can
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/q0rwSFjjEfI/nyc-property-records-on-google-maps.html
Category: Google Maps | Aug 2, 2010
TipCarTipCar is a Brazilian car pooling website. Users of the site can offer and find rides quickly and easily.The home page of TipCar features a cool animated Google Map which features profile pictures and short messages of people looking to share car journeys. The map animates through each message with some nice map rotation and map tilting between messages. You can see the animation effects in
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Category: Google Maps | Aug 2, 2010
Mission ExploreIf you have children that you need to keep entertained this summer then you should introduce them to Mission Explore. Mission Explore is a series of challenges designed to get children thinking geographically.The Mission Explore website already has over 1,000 missions. The project has started in London but the missions will be expanding to other locations soon. The Mission Explore
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/KcWP2vlO9VM/mission-possible-with-google-maps.html
Category: Google Maps | Aug 2, 2010
Story MapThis morning I was reading EDTE.CH’s account of the recent Google Maps Session at the Google Teacher Academy UK meeting. The post has a lot of interesting resources for using Google Maps in the classroom but I was very impressed with one particular idea. The idea is to use Google My Maps to create interactive narratives.To create a Story Map you create a Google My Map with a starter map
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/8H0GsoyYsP4/simple-ideas-are-often-best.html
