Where’s the Path allows users to compare the UK’s Ordnance Survey maps alongside Google Maps or Open Street Map. The two maps are synchronised, so if you pan one map the other map pans to show the same view.

The application is a very useful resource, particularly for hikers. The Ordnance Survey map has far greater detail than Google Maps about public footpaths and other off-road features. Google Maps on the other hand allows you to view satellite imagery alongside the OS map.

Ans, for those of you obsessed about whether Google Maps or Open Street Map has better map data, Where’s the Path allows you to compare the two maps side-by-side to your heart’s content.

Hat-tip: Mapperz

From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/z3BWv89oCLw/wheres-path-v3.html

If you connect Trial by Timeline to your Facebook account you can view a map of all the locations in the world where you could face imprisonment for your behaviour. I must remember not to post drunken messages to my Facebook wall if I’m ever in Kuwait.

It should be a crime under international law to listen to Bob Dylan. However Slate has decided to mark Bob Dylan’s 72nd birthday with a map of every street, town, and city Dylan has ever sung about.

If you click on a song’s marker on the Bob Dylan Map you can then click through to read the lyrics of the song or listen to it on Spotify. I was kidding by the way, I love Bob Dylan’s music.

One map kept cropping up in my never ending search for maps this week. The CSS Tube Map recreates Harry Beck’s famous London Underground map using nothing but HTML5, CSS3 and a tiny bit of jQuery. It uses no images.

The map was created by John Galantini, who you may know from his CSS Tardis.

From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/V_UeevJ7nNg/bob-dylan-facebook-crimes-css-map.html

If you select a marker on the map you can view detailed information about the company, including the postal and website address. The details include which sector the company is in. Probably the only thing missing on this map is the ability to filter the companies by the sector. It would be nice to be able to search the map by sector as well as by distance.

The data is there so it should be a simple task to add that option to the map.

From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/XTPVTKOSirg/a-google-map-of-public-stocks.html

GeoGuessr has rightly been getting a lot of great coverage lately. It has now even been featured in an xkcd strip.

Google Maps has featured a number of times over the years on xkcd. I think however this is the first time that a specific application using the Google Maps API has starred on its own.

Fame indeed!

Just in case you still haven’t played GeoGuessr:

The game drops you into a random Street View and then asks you to guess where in the world you are. Points are awarded for how close your guess is to the actual location.

Daniel Shwarz has been scanning Google Maps aerial imagery in search of locations where images taken at different times of the year have been stitched together. His post, ‘Justapose‘, includes screenshots of a number of examples. I think the images are rather beautiful.

Street View Rock Video

It has been a while since we last featured a music video created with Google Maps Street View. Here’s one from band Tereza.

It is worth watching beyond the initial timelapse sequence. Later in the video the band member’s heads have been superimposed over the blurred out heads of people in the Street View images.

Via: Google Street View World

From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/qG91RcSOCCY/its-friday-fun-with-google-maps.html

HouseinCity allows house hunters to search for a property by location, price, the number of bedrooms and by the property’s builder. In what I think is a first for Indian real-estate websites, HouseinCity also offers users the option to search by commuting time.

The map includes two commuting time options. ‘Metro Connectivity’ overlays a heat map of metro travel times on the map. The heat map shows the average commuting time for a morning commute on the metro. Alternatively, for the driving times of a commute in morning traffic, users can use the ‘Project Connectivity’ option.

It is also possible to display local amenities, like schools, shopping malls etc. on the map. If you select any of the local amenities on the map you can instantly view the travel time that it will take to reach the amenity from your selected location.

From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/FMQjqYb3_eU/indian-real-estate-with-commute-times.html

If you select a sale’s marker on the map you can view details of the sale and click on the ‘add to trip planner’ button to add the sale to your personal trip planner. After you have selected all the sales that you plan to visit you can then click on the ‘View Route and Directions’ button in the side panel to open another map with a planned route and the directions to all your planned sales. 

From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/64ZdmR-TA3I/find-garage-sales-plan-your-route-map.html

As part of field trial we opened in October, it became possible to instantly see your relevant emails, Google Drive files, Calendar events, and more when you search in Gmail. Those of you who participated in the field trial told us that you like the time-saving convenience of searching for all your stuff from one place, and over the coming week, we’ll be rolling out this feature in English to all U.S. users. Now you can find what you’re looking for faster right in Gmail.

From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OfficialGmailBlog/~3/TsVlG1GUpBA/search-emails-google-drive-calendar-and.html

It’s critical that we share images with the world of this place in order to continue to study and preserve the islands’ unique biodiversity. Today we’re honored to announce, in partnership with Charles Darwin Foundation (CDF) and the Galapagos National Parks Directorate (GNPD), that we’ve collected panoramic imagery of the islands with the Street View Trekker. These stunning images will be available on Google Maps later this year so people around the world can experience this remote archipelago.

Images, like the one you see above, are also an important visual record that the CDF and GNPD will use to study and protect the islands by showing the world how these delicate environments have changed over time.

Our 10-day adventure in the Galapagos was full of hiking, boating and diving around the islands (in hot and humid conditions) to capture 360-degree images of the unique wildlife and geological features of the islands with the Trekker. We captured imagery from 10 locations that were hand-selected by CDF and GNPD. We walked past giant tortoises and blue-footed boobies, navigated through steep trails and lava fields, and picked our way down the crater of an active volcano called Sierra Negra.

A Galapagos giant tortoise crawls along the path near Googler Karin Tuxen-Bettman while she collects imagery with the Street View Trekker in Galapaguera, a tortoise breeding center, which is managed by the Galapagos National Park Service.

Life underwater in the Galapagos is just as diverse as life on land. We knew our map of the islands wouldn’t be comprehensive without exploring the ocean that surrounds them. So for the second time we teamed up with the folks at the Catlin Seaview Survey to collect underwater panoramic imagery of areas being studied by CDF and GNPD. This imagery will be used by Catlin Seaview Survey to create a visual and scientific baseline record of the marine environment surrounding the islands, allowing for any future changes to be measured and evaluated by scientists around the world.

We truly believe that in order to protect these Galapagos Islands, we must understand them. As they say, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” We hope this Street View imagery not only advances the important scientific research, but also inspires you to learn more about this special place. Stay tuned for updates on this collection—the first time we’ve captured imagery from both land and sea! We can’t wait to share this amazing imagery with you later this year.

Posted by Raleigh Seamster, Project Lead, Google Maps

From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/LUkWnCpHPqI/capturing-beauty-and-wonder-of.html

The map includes a tool to view building footprints, the tool can be turned on and off by clicking on the ‘Hide Labels’ button.

This Open Street Map map of aerial imagery also shows the devastating damage caused by the tornado in Moore.

Unfortunately the map doesn’t have any zoom controls or an option to view aerial imagery of the same location before the tornado struck. The map, however, does include a dynamic URL that gives the latitude and longitude of the current view. Therefore, if you want to compare before and after views of the tornado, you can grab the latitude and longitude of a view and paste it into Google Maps.

The aerial view above shows Plaza Towers Elementary School.  Below is the aerial view of the same school on Google Maps, taken before the tornado.

Update: Google Crisis Map now also has the same post-tornado imagery. The Google Crisis Map also includes aerial imagery taken at the end of April, so users can compare the pre and post-tornado imagery on the same map.

The New York Times has also created two evocative custom Street View images
of the devastation caused by the tornado in Moore, Oklahoma – Before and After: 360° Views From Moore.

From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/CGc1zxOs2OM/post-tornado-satellitte-imagery.html

Unfortunately the map doesn’t have any zoom controls or an option to view aerial imagery of the same location before the tornado struck. The map, however, does include a dynamic URL that gives the latitude and longitude of the current view. Therefore, if you want to compare before and after views of the tornado, you can grab the latitude and longitude of a view and paste it into Google Maps.

The aerial view above shows Plaza Towers Elementary School.  Below is the aerial view of the same school on Google Maps, taken before the tornado.

Update: Google Crisis Map now also has the same post-tornado imagery. The Google Crisis Map also includes aerial imagery taken at the end of April, so users can compare the pre and post-tornado imagery on the same map.

The New York Times has also created two evocative custom Street View images
of the devastation caused by the tornado in Moore, Oklahoma – Before and After: 360° Views From Moore.

From: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleMapsMania/~3/CGc1zxOs2OM/post-tornado-satellitte-imagery.html