Where's This Picture From on Google Maps

Where the F##k is This?

This imaginatively named website allows you to ask the crowd where a photograph was taken.

If you have a picture and you are unsure of the location depicted you can upload it to Where the F##k is This and, if you are lucky, someone will know and show you its location on a Google Map.

Each picture is displayed with a Google Map. If you know the location depicted you can click on a Google Map to show the exact location and leave a comment.

The website includes a What's Hot section and a section for pictures that have already been located.

What's Going On with Google Maps

Map Channels Events

MLB All Star Game - Tuesday, 12 July 2011

Map Channels Events is a Google Maps based music and sporting events website with tens of thousands of events displayed at thousands of venues around the world. Using the website's interactive event calendar and Google Maps it is possible to find and buy tickets for all kinds of sporting, musical and theatrical events.

Map Channels Events has just added interactive floor-plan maps, supplied by Seatics, for many of its listed venues. The floor-plan maps allow customers to quickly compare prices in different sections of a stadium and see what kind of seating they are buying.

As well as the interactive floor-plans Map Channels Events includes a Google Map and Street View for each listed venue.

2012 Olympics on Google Maps

London Olympics Site

Today it has been gloriously sunny in London, so this afternoon I decided to take a stroll to the site of the 2012 London Olympics. I had my phone with me so I took a few photographs on my walk.

After uploading the photos to Picassa obviously the first thing that I thought of was to create a Google Map. There is nothing overly exciting about this map but I thought there might be some interest in having a look at the site of next year's London Olympics.

The satellite imagery on Google Maps for the Olympics Park was updated last month - so that's another reason to have looksie.

Historical UK Maps API

National Library of Scotland Maps API

The National Library of Scotland has released an API to give developers access to a map of the UK using out of copyright Ordnance Survey maps, dating from the 1920s to the 1940s.

The API uses Google Maps to create an interactive map based on tiles created from the Ordnance Survey Maps. You can see the basic map here. This map can be embedded into other websites and blogs just by copying and pasting the iframe code. You can even embed a map using a dynamic URL so that the embedded map is zoomed and centred on your chosen location.

However you can also use the API to create your own mashups. For examplehere is a map that has an added transparency slider, that allows you to view the Google Map tiles beneath the OS maps. 

Americas Rock on Twitter

Twitter Top 100 Users

This Google Map of the Top 100 Twitter users (based on the number of followers) reveals that only 7 of them live outside of the Americas. Those 7, who are all based in Europe, even include Brazilian footballer Kaka and U.S. tennis player Serena Williams.

The markers on the map are colour-coded by category, for example, music, entertainment, technology etc. Like BatchGeo's Map of Top 100 Websites Worldwide the map features a really cool marker clustering system. Not only does each clustered marker show the number of markers at the location it features a nice pie chart that represents the percentage of each website category at the location.

Keep on Running with Google Maps

iFit 

With the iFit you can now run anywhere in the world, virtually, with a little help from Google Maps and Street View.

You can connect iFit Live to an iFit treadmill or exercise bike. You then have the power of Google Maps to create a route anywhere that you fancy running. When you run on your iFit treadmill you can then follow your progress on your route with Google Maps and with Street View, where available.

You can get a good idea of what the experience is like by visiting the iFit demo page. With this demo feature you can draw and view workout maps. You can plan a route and even follow it in Street View.

How to Make a Census Map

WNYC 2010 Census Map

In my extensive round-up of 2010 census maps yesterday I missed one very good map. WNYC has used Google Fusion Tables to create a great Google Map of the census data for the city of New York.

The map allows you to view heat maps of demographic changes in New York over the last ten years. The map allows you to view population change and changes in race / ethnicity in each of New York's census tracts.

If you are interested in how the map was put together John Keefe has written a great post on Making the WNYC Census Map.

Also See

Data Journalism & the 2010 Census

The Colosseum in Street View

Google have added new Street View imagery in Italy and France. This latest imagery has been captured by the Street View trike that allows Google to go off road and obtain imagery from historical sites, such as inside the Colosseum in Rome.

If you want a quick tour of the Colosseum check out this animated pan of the arena in Street View. 


The Colosseum

Other highlights in Italy include: the birthplace of Rome, the Palatine Hill, theAppian Way, the Thermae (Baths) of Diocletian and the Ponte Vecchio in Florence.

In France you can visit the beautiful château of Fontainebleau.

Via: Google LatLong

Google Maps & Twitter

Twitter Nano

Twitter Nano lets you read real-time Tweets from anywhere in the world. Using the provided Google Map you can zoom in on any location and start reading the latest Tweets posted from there.

As well as dragging and zooming the map you can also use the search box to enter a location. The Tweets for each location appear beneath the map, scrolling down with a nice transition effect.

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RPG with Google Maps

Geo Hunters
GEO Hunters is a free role playing game for the iPhone that uses Google Maps satellite views to create a fantasy world based on your location.

In this game monsters have invaded your neighborhood and you are either a warrior, skilled hunter or crafty wizard. Your goal is to protect your turf by amassing your own monster army. As well as fighting the game's monsters you must also compete against other players to become the top ranking player.

The game is compatible with the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.