Google Maps. Plot Your Favorite Locations on a Map. From Wired How-To Wiki Quick! You have out-of-town visitors and no time to show them around. It's time to make a map, so they can give themselves a tour of your favorite places. But don't get out your map-drawing equipment yet -- you can do this online using Google Maps. This article is located on a wiki. Position your mouse cursor over the edit link and locate a spot in the article to position your own advice. Create an empty map First things first: You'll need to be signed into a Google account. Armed with your Google credentials, proceed to the [Google Maps] site. With the map in a familiar area, it's time to tell Google you want to make this map your own. Now is your chance to name your map, provide a description and decide who will be able to see it.
Search and plot businesses To create map locations by searching for businesses, you are able to browse just as you would when using Google Maps normally. Scroll through the results in the left column or the icons on the map. In the future. Google Maps Mania. Google Maps: 100+ Best Tools and Mashups. Most people think of Google Maps in terms of finding a place or business, or getting directions from one point to another. Others use the satellite images and terrain mapping features. But there are tons of other uses out there for Google maps. From mapping the weather and news to mapping things that aren't maps at all, like paintings or magazines, Google Maps has a lot to offer.
And there are free tools available out there for those who want to use the Google Maps API without doing a bunch of coding. Here are more than 100 of the best mashups and tools out there right now. Have a favorite Google Maps tool or mashup? Travel and Transportation Mapness - An online travel journal that interfaces with Google Maps to show where you've been. The AA Route Planner - Plan trips around the UK. Montreal Metro Map - A complete map of Montreal Metro stations. TubeJP - A London Tube journey planner using Google Maps that also incorporates a search function to find local businesses. Who is Sick? Other Maps. Google Maps Get Labs With 9 Cool New Features. Here’s a nice surprise from Google’s Maps team: Just like Gmail, Google Maps now also has the Labs feature (it’s the little green vial in the top right menu), which introduces experimental new features for you to try out. Right now, you can try out nine new features (all disabled by default): – lets you zoom in on a specific part of the map by drawing a box. – gives you rotatable, high-resolution overhead imagery, but it’s only available in certain areas.
Google plans to add more over time, though. – OK, this one is a little weird. It lets you have a beta tag on Maps (just like Gmail). Only for hardcore Google users. – test your geography knowledge by guessing the names of countries from satellite imagery. . – north facing up is just one way to look at a map. . – adds a second search button that searches for “*”, returning the top results in the current view. . – see the exact latitude and longitude next to your cursor. – stops you from zooming into an area if imagery is not available. Public Data Visualizer in Animated Charts.
Google has just launched Google Public Data Explorer. The new Google Labs tool offers a visual way to look at and analyze large public data sets on a variety of popular search topics. The tool is specifically designed for avid data crunchers like students, journalists, policy makers, and could be seen as Google's prettified approach to a user-driven computational search engine (think Wolfram Alpha). Public Data Explorer is its own dedicated utility that expands and improves upon existing functionality added to the search experience last year.
Interested parties can visually dissect — in time-lapsed animation fashion and in an array of chart types — things like fertility rate by country, employment rates, and the flux of mortality rates in the U.S. Data is provided by the World Bank, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. Big Birthday mapMashUps. Today is an important milestone here at Google and we’re all pretty excited - the Google Maps API turns 5! It was five years ago today that we posted a brief announcement to let the world know about the JavaScript Maps API and now 5 years later more than 350,000 active websites make use of it. Uses have ranged from tools that have made it easier to find an apartment, track the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and even make an Earth sandwich! Many, many more examples have been chronicled on sites like Mashable and the Google Maps Mania blog. In 2005, Adrian Holovaty launched the first crime mashup that overlaid Chicago’s public crime data onto online maps providing Chicago’s citizens and journalists with a true picture of crime in their city.
The site won the 2005 Batten Award for Innovations in Journalism and was named by The New York Times as one of 2005's best ideas. Of my 11 years of doing Web development, Spring 2005 was the most interesting and exciting time. Moon. Mars.