Foto Recorridos
Foto Recorridos is a collection of 360 degree panoramic photos of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The site uses Google Maps to show the locations of all the interactive panoramas of the city.
The panoramas contain links that allow you to navigate from one image to another. You can also click on the map markers to load the panorama for that location. As you navigate from one interactive image to another a green line is drawn on the map to connect the panoramas. This feature allows the viewer to tell at a glance which photographs have already been viewed.
Other Panoramic Photograph Maps
JungleThingy
JungleThingy is a very simple to use Google Maps based search engine for travel guides listed on Amazon.
To search for a travel book for a specific location on JungleThingy just click on a location on Google Maps. The travel guides and travel books for that location are then listed in the middle column. If you then click on one of the listed books you can get further details, including the price, reader ratings and a summary of the book's contents.
Also See
GuidebookPlus - maps the page numbers of locations in guide books, such as those published by Lonely Planet and Rough Guide.
Eagle Nebula Scroll
Having played around with static Street View images to create an animated side view of Oxford Street in London I wondered if it was possible to do something similar with static map tiles fromGoogle Sky.
It is.
Here's an animated marquee of the Eagle Nebula. In itself it probably doesn't have many practical applications but the static images could be useful for anyone wanting to illustrate an astronomy article on the internet.
The image illustrating this post is itself a static Google Sky map tile.
Perhaps Google should create a static API for Google Sky as they have forGoogle Maps.
