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Category: Google Maps | May 1, 2013
The King County Multi-Family Residential Parking Calculator is a Google Maps based visualisation of residential car parking demand in Seattle. The tool was developed to help support and guide parking supply and management decisions and is based on a survey of car numbers parked in residential areas between midnight and 5 a.m..
The map provides an overall choropleth map of parking demand in the city. Users of the map can click on individual parcels of land to view the parking to residential unit ratio in that area. Alternatively it is possible to use the drawing tools to select and view the parking demand for a larger area on the map
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/8zG3tiQiRqk/residential-parking-in-seattle.html
Category: Google Maps | May 1, 2013
In the UK buildings that are deemed to have a special historical, archaeological, architectural or artistic interest can be given ‘listed building’ protection. The listing is designed to protect important buildings which may not be demolished, extended, or altered without special permission.
British Listed Buildings has created a Google Map that can help the public find the location of these important buildings. The colour of each marker relates to the grade of each listed building (grade 1,2 or 3). If you want to know more about an individual building displayed on the map you can click on the ‘more information’ link in each information window to view the dedicated entry for the building. 
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/4ftnqFB9KgQ/listed-buildings-on-google-maps.html
Category: Google Maps | Apr 30, 2013
It has been my practice to call Google Business Photos ‘indoor Street View’. Google Business Photos never really seemed as accurate as ‘indoor Street View’ to me – but boy was I wrong.
I was wrong because Google Business Photos do not actually have to be taken indoors. In fact, as these Street View shots from the Turin Eye prove, they can actually be taken from 150 metres above the ground. Thanks to the owners of the Turin Eye you can now virtually ascend to the skies above Turin on Google Maps, walk around inside the hot air balloon and get a 360 degree panoramic aerial view of Turin.
Now that’s what I call a business photo!
Via: Google Street View World
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/fivDQluIyCg/introducing-hot-air-balloon-street-view.html
Category: Google Maps | Apr 30, 2013
Next month thousands of Google Maps around the world were scheduled to die. May 19, 2013 was the day that maps using version 2 of the Google Maps API were meant to be shut down but Google has now decided to extend the deprecation time-line for v2 maps by six months.
There is even better news for those who are determined not to convert their v2 maps into v3 maps. Google says that on November 19, 2013 they “will attempt to automagically turn remaining v2 maps into v3 maps, by way of a JavaScript wrapper”. Google says that they expect the wrapper to work with simple v2 maps but to be safe they encourage you to migrate your maps to v3 ahead of this date.
To help you migrate v2 maps Google have prepared an upgrade guide to help make the migration process as painless as possible.
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/M6PPfmrD15k/stay-of-execution-for-google-maps-api-v2.html
Category: Google Maps | Apr 30, 2013
In an article entitled New York Elsewhere The Morning News makes a pretty good attempt to insult everybody in the world.
Using a series of embedded Google Maps The Morning News compares neighborhoods in cities across the the US (and a few other cities worldwide) with neighborhoods in New York. The purpose of the article is to inform fleeing New Yorkers which neighborhoods they should move to in other cities.
So, for example, the embedded map of San Francisco compares Treasure Island to Roosevelt Island, NoPa to Prospect Heights and San Anselmo to Nyack. Accompanying each map is a brief witty description of the mapped neighborhoods explaining their similarities to neighborhoods in New York. 
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/VSd1mgJAOVY/new-york-neighborhoods-acroos-world.html
Category: Google Maps | Apr 30, 2013
The ‘Travelling Salesman Problem’ is a well known routing problem. Basically the travelling salesman problem is: “Given a list of destinations, what is the shortest possible route that visits each destination exactly once and returns to the original starting point?”
The latest Google Maps based solution to the travelling salesman problem that I’ve found is Speedy Route. Speedy Route is a world-wide route planner that integrates with Google Directions to find the shortest route for a number of planned destinations.
Beginning at your start location, Speedy Route calculates a route that visits every other location you provide exactly once, before finally returning to your start location to finish, all by the shortest and quickest route possible. Speedy Route also provides the driving directions as supplied by Google Directions for the entire calculated route.
I have been wondering for a while, however, about what the opposite routing problem is called. What if you need to find a route that avoids certain locations along a planned route? In honour of the University of Waterloo, I’m calling this the ‘Brooding Goose Problem’.
The University of Waterloo set themselves the problem of devising a campus routing solution that shows the quickest route between two locations that avoids the known locations of goose nests on the campus.
To help students and staff who are frightened of geese the university have created the Goose Nest Avoider. Using ESRI Maps the Goose Nest Avoider allows users to select a starting point and a destination from two drop down menus and then displays an optimal route that steers clear of any nesting geese.
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/BVrC4iQ6BqE/solving-brooding-goose-problem.html
Category: Google Maps | Apr 30, 2013
Trulia Local inlcudes an awesome feature that allows users to check out commute times in a number of U.S. cities. Using the map house hunters can check out how long it takes to
commute to or from any location by public transit or by car. For example,
you can center the map on your place of work and find out all the areas
within your choice of commute time.
A slider tool allows the user to adjust the time of the commute and it
is possible to select either driving or public transit times. You can
drag and drop the map marker to set the center point of your commute
time request.
In the UK Locrating has created a nice Google Maps based app that displays the commute times of rail stations to any location.
If you enter a location and the length of time that you are prepared to commute the map displays all the stations that you can commute from. The markers for each station are colour-coded to show how quick the commute would be from each station.
Users can even add properties for sale to the map so that it is possible to search for a new home at a location that is within your preferred commute time zone.
Mapnificent
is a Google Maps based application that shows you how far you can
travel on public transport for any given length of time, in a number of
major cities around the world.
Mapnificent allows users
to drop a marker anywhere in a city and adjust a slide control to define
a commuting time. The map then displays the commutable area using an
isochrone layer on the map. Users can adjust the slide control to show
longer or shorter commute time zones.
The Centre for eCommerce and Communication at the University of
Ballarat created this animated Google Map visualisation of 1,000
commuter journeys undertaken by university employees.
The UB Commute Visualisation
shows how far staff travel from their home to arrive at their destination
campus by 9 am. As the visualisation animates the most used roads become
thicker on the map to reflect the increased traffic.
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/H5wvbX07GOc/commuting-times-on-google-maps.html
Category: Google Maps | Apr 29, 2013
Festival season is on the horizon once again and a couple of Google Maps based apps can help you find the best musical, arts and other types of events happenings near you.
In the U.S. EventNearby is a mapped based guide to upcoming events of all kinds. Users can use the links in the map sidebar to filter the results shown on the map by category. If you find an event that takes your fancy you can click through to get further details, such as the dates of the events and the event website.
Festival Searcher is another Google Maps guide to music festivals taking place in Europe and America this summer.
The
map markers are colour-coded by month so that you can get a quick
overview of what festival is taking place when. I assume the size of the
markers relates to the size of the festival displayed.
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/MGVXNmNRLcg/a-summer-of-festivals-on-google-maps.html
Category: Google Maps | Apr 29, 2013
Ryōgoku Kokugikan, Tokyo’s major sumo area, is now on Street View. You can walk around the arena and look down on the sumo ring from the top of the 13,000 capacity stadium. You can even wander down and stand in the ring itself.
However there are 68 sumo wrestlers guarding the arena and to gain entrance you do have to fight and beat them all. Warning – this is what happened to me when I tried:
Ideas by Music
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/DGwJSBPjcdQ/68-sumo-wrestlers-on-google-maps.html
Category: Google Maps | Apr 29, 2013
Well it appears that today is the day that everyone uses Google Maps to make London a far happier city. First came Here Comes the Sun, an app to make the streets of London shine on Google Maps, now we have Thank You London, a Google Map for people to thank other Londoners for the little things that have made their day.
If someone has brightened up your day you can add your gratitude by simply placing a marker on the map and adding a short message. 
From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/fTbpZ1MRyrw/google-maps-says-thank-you-london.html
