Finding Speed Traps with Google Maps

PoliceTraps.com

This iPhone app uses Google Maps to show you the location of speed cameras and traps near your current location. The website also includes a Google Map so you can check for the locations of the latest speed traps before you leave home.

Traps mapped on the map have been submitted by other PoliceTraps.com users. Users can report traps or road incidents and earn karma for their submissions. It is possible to report a trap from your phone or from the website.

The map itself uses different map marker icons for the different types of submissions. The markers indicate if the report is of a speed camera or a speed trap.

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Find a Flu Shot with Google Maps

Google Flu Shot Finder

Google has again collaborated with the U.S. Department for Health and Human Services (HHS), their flu.gov collaborators and the American Lung Association to release a Google Map that can help you find nearby locations where you can get a flu vaccine.

As well as the Google standalone map the Flu Shot Finder can be found onFlu.gov. Flu.gov are also allowing you to add their version of the map to your own website by providing a short piece of code which you can cut & paste to embed the map.

Find a Flu Shot with Google Maps

Google Flu Shot Finder

Google has again collaborated with the U.S. Department for Health and Human Services (HHS), their flu.gov collaborators and the American Lung Association to release a Google Map that can help you find nearby locations where you can get a flu vaccine.

As well as the Google standalone map the Flu Shot Finder can be found onFlu.gov. Flu.gov are also allowing you to add their version of the map to your own website by providing a short piece of code which you can cut & paste to embed the map.

Find a Flu Shot with Google Maps

Google Flu Shot Finder

Google has again collaborated with the U.S. Department for Health and Human Services (HHS), their flu.gov collaborators and the American Lung Association to release a Google Map that can help you find nearby locations where you can get a flu vaccine.

As well as the Google standalone map the Flu Shot Finder can be found onFlu.gov. Flu.gov are also allowing you to add their version of the map to your own website by providing a short piece of code which you can cut & paste to embed the map.

Sea Ice Extent Animation updated for 2010

We've told you a few times about the excellent Sea Ice Extent data that the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) has been producing. They've recently updated their files to show data from 2010, and the results are quite stunning:

According to their site, the 2010 low (reached on September 19) was the third lowest on satellite record:

Average ice extent for September 2010 was 4.90 million square kilometers (1.89 million square miles), 2.14 million square kilometers (830,000 square miles) below the 1979 to 2000 average, but 600,000 square kilometers (230,00 square miles) above the average for September 2007, the lowest monthly extent in the satellite record. Ice extent was below the 1979 to 2000 average everywhere except in the East Greenland Sea near Svalbard.

The U.S. National Ice Center declared both the Northwest Passage and the Northern Sea Route open for a period during September. Stephen Howell of Environment Canada reported a record early melt-out and low extent in the western Parry Channel region of the Northwest Passage, based on analyses of the Canadian Ice Service. Two sailing expeditions, one Norwegian and one Russian, successfully navigated both passages and are nearing their goal of circumnavigating the Arctic.

You can check it out for yourself using this KMZ file. Or, if you'd prefer, you can simply watch the video below that shows all of the data in the KMZ.

Gun Ownership Data on Google Maps

Concealed Handguns in San Antonio: 2009

The Texas Tribune have analyzed a Department of Public Safety database that tracks concealed handgun licenses in Texas. The Tribune have produced a number of Google Maps to show the rates of gun permit ownership and income levels for each county.

My SA News has used the maps and the underlying data to look at how gun permit ownership is tied to income and politics. Overall the My SA News seems to conclude that gun permit ownership is lower in lower income areas because people can't afford the permits rather than that they don't own guns