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Category: Google Maps | May 9, 2013
The Atlas of Ingenious Ireland is an Irish geek’s dream map. The map helps you find Ireland’s ingenious places; from museums to hi-tech research institutions Ingenious Ireland shows you where great discoveries were made, and where great scientists and inventors were born and worked.
Using the map you can find great places to visit in Ireland. For example, why not visit the world’s oldest astronomical observatory at Newgrange, made 5,000 years ago in the Stone Age. Or you could visit the spot at Broome Bridge where Sir William Rowan Hamilton, in 1843, invented a revolutionary new algebra. Hamilton’s ‘quaternions’ describe things moving in 3D, and are now used to orient spacecraft, in 3D animations and in computer games.
Non-Irish geeks and nerds can use Nerdy Day Trips instead.
When
nerds go to the beach they go to Marconi Beach, named after the Italian
inventor Guglielmo Marconi. Or at least they do if they consult Nerdy Day Trips.
This
Google Map is a great collection of interesting places to visit.
Consulting the map for my own part of London I find that Edmund Halley’s
grave is nearby, there is a Cold War era nuclear bunker museum just
down the road and numerous small museums nearby that I never knew
existed. 
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/uoQLtoUFVwE/the-irish-geeks-dream-map.html
Category: Google Maps | May 9, 2013
Dodota is only the second Iranian Google Maps app that we have featured on Google Maps Mania. Dodota is a real estate search application that allows Iranians to search for property by location, price and by property features.
The results of each search are displayed on a Google Map. Users can click on each of the properties shown on the map to view the price of the property and click through to view the property’s full details.
Dodata is a Persian language property search portal. Currently the site has coverage in Tehran, Mashad, Karaj, Isfahan, Tabriz, Rasht, Shiraz, Kish and other Persian speaking towns. 
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/OfimKpVaopk/iranian-real-estate-on-google-maps.html
Category: Google Maps | May 8, 2013
Our friends down under at All Things Spatial inform us that Geoscience Australia has released a new, Google Maps based, Discovery and Delivery System. The map has been created to provide public access to a diverse range of data, products and services available from the organisation.
The map includes a number of overlay layers, including topography, geology, landcover, gravity image and magnetic image. The map also includes access to over 100,000 historic Landsat-7 and Landsat-5 images of Australia captured between 2000 and 2010. These can be viewed as WMS overlays on the map or can be downloaded as data.
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/fVyn2eqba1w/discover-australia-on-google-maps.html
Category: Google Maps | May 8, 2013
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.
If you don’t like the look of the suggested route (or perversely you want to find the steepest route) you can drag the route around to view the elevation and difficulty of alternative routes. 
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/U4GLJksrCfE/no-more-hills-on-google-maps.html
Category: Google Maps | May 8, 2013
Google Operating System are reporting that Google are about to push out a radical new design for Google Maps.
Google Operating System surmise, probably correctly, that Google will announce and release the new look Google Maps next week at Google I/O. One of the major changes in the new design seems to be the removal of the sidebar. If you want to see more then have a look at the Google Operating System post, they have another screenshot of the new design in their report.
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/NAJQw1yJfNA/google-maps-to-get-new-design.html
Category: Google Maps | May 8, 2013
Z24 Luchtvaartkaart is a neat mapped based visualisation of European airport data. The map shows the ten largest European airports in three different categories: takeoffs and landings, passenger traffic and cargo traffic.
As well as displaying the largest airports in these categories in 2012 the sidebar contains a link to view the fastest growing airports in each category.
The markers on this Google Map are really well designed and I like the way that they are scaled to represent the data. The map has also been styled to strip out unnecessary features, leaving just the country borders. 
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/xfY8-R3siYA/europes-largest-airports-on-google-maps.html
Category: Google Maps | May 7, 2013
The Saskatoon Police Service has released a crime map using the Google Maps API.
The SPS Crime Map’s default view shows on a Google Map all of the previous day’s crimes in the Canadian town. However the map includes a date tool that lets you refine the data shown on the map by any date range. The map sidebar also includes links to filter the results by type of crime and also to view traffic collisions on the map.
The crimes themselves are displayed on the map with colour-coded markers which indicate the category of crime.
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/Cvoy-JL44JY/saskatoon-crime-on-google-maps.html
Category: Google Maps | May 7, 2013
You may remember the SF Live Bus map we posted on Google Maps Mania last month.
The SF Live Bus map came with a link to the code on GitHub. Someone has now adapted the code to create a pseudo real-time map of the Portland Trimet transit system.
The PDX Live Map shows the real-time location of all buses, trains, and street cars in Portland. You can query the map to show only one route or vehicle number. You can also click on the marker of an individual vehicle on the map to view its departure point and destination. 
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/WPFfzpFaDAM/portland-buses-live-on-google-maps.html
Category: Google Maps | May 7, 2013
Belly is a universal loyalty reward program, which is available as an iPhone or Android app.
To find nearby rewards the app’s users can search on the Belly Locations Map. The map itself is simple and well designed, taking advantage of the Google Maps API Styled Maps feature, custom map markers and a nice marker clustering system.
8coupons also uses Google Maps to help you find all the deals currently available in your neighborhood restaurants, bars, salons, and stores.
8coupons collects deals from over 500 sources.
Coupon hunters can also use CouponCabin to find great nearby deals.
CouponCabin searches “tens of thousands of consumer emails, online forums, blogs, merchant sites each week and even the Sunday newspaper” to find the greatest local deals.
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/gPJ-Fsf0bVM/frind-free-deals-with-google-maps.html
Category: Google Maps | May 7, 2013
Карта местонахождений is a Russian language anthropological Google Map showing the locations of the earliest evidence of man found around the world.
This map of human evolution catalogues important palaeontological discoveries. Users can filter the results shown on the map by type of hominid and click on individual map markers to read about specific finds. Each information window includes a link to read a more detailed account of the evidence found at each location.
I’ve searched in vain for a similar English language interactive map but I did find this exhibit from the National Museum of Anthropology in México City on Street View.
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/wwhy7SEdVHA/the-history-of-world-part-1.html
