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If you are searching for an apartment in the UK then Cravify is a good place to start. This Google Maps application allows you to search for flats by price, number of bedrooms and by the date the apartment was listed. The markers shown on the map include the price of the rent and the number of bedrooms which allows you to quickly find apartments you could be interested in. If you are searching for an apartment in the U.S. then you could use MyApartmentMap . The application allows you to search for apartments by price range, number of bedrooms and within a set distance of a given location. The markers displayed on the Google Map display the price and number of bedrooms of the listed apartment.Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. There are now nearly 700 maps. Maps 1-366 are also available as PDF posters. Use the menu above to find a map of interest. To learn a little more about this and other map projections read this: Worldmapper and map projections .
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MapOfStrange.com - Strange things in Google Maps
Welcome to MapOfStrange.com - strange things in google maps The MapOfStrange website is a way of recording strange, wacky, weird and wonderful anomalies, sights and oddities from Google Maps and Google Earth. Unfortunately we've had to disable new submissions for the time being. We've got a massive backlog and we really need to clear these before we start allowing new things onto the site. We've got big plans for the mapofstrange, so please come back soon and see the new, all-improved version (with a whole load of new content and loads more strange things in Google Maps and Google Earth).
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Google Sightseeing - Discover the world via Google Maps and Goog
Thursday, 26th April 2012 by Kyle Kusch Here at Google Sightseeing, our obsession with superlatives knows no bounds, whether it be the largest, the smallest, the funniest, or the strangest. Join us as we literally go in another direction with our look at ten items that have the right to be called the northernmost such things on Earth! Wednesday, 18th April 2012 by Ian Brown Faced with the challenge of building a year-round road to connect Norway’s two largest cities (Bergen and Oslo), through a mountainous region of central Norway, engineers decided to create the world’s longest road tunnel. Named after the municipality at the northern end, Lærdal, the tunnel spans 24.5km to Aurland.googlemaps
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Final resting place of a pioneering scurvy researcher The term, “antiscorbutic,” refers to foods that cure scurvy. For centuries, people knew that there were certain foods that seemed to stave off the disease, but had no understanding of why.