Google Maps Lottery

Million Mole

Hers's how to win money with Google Maps or lose lots of money trying.

Last year GeoSweep launched in the UK. Geosweep is a Google Maps based lottery game, where players can buy locations on Google Maps. These virtual plots are then entered into two daily cash prize draws.

Million Mole is a similar concept from Italy, however, instead of buying plots you pay to capture one of 1,000 moles hidden on a Google Map. My Italian isn't good enough to work out all the cash prizes available but the current jackpot seems to be just over one thousand Euros.

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Pacman on Google Maps

PacMap

PacMap is an application that turns your neighborhood into a real-life Pac-Man game.

PacMap overlays yellow pac-dots on top of a Google Map of your location. Your goal is to walk your neighborhood gobbling up the dots whilst avoiding the familiar Pac-Man enemies.

You score points by eating the yellow pac-dots and lose the game if an enemy manages to capture you. You can adjust the difficulty level of the game and you can also set the time limit to 10, 15 or 20 minutes.

PacMap includes a couple of options that can help to save your battery life and data usage. If you disable the animation option your battery drains less quickly and if you switch from the default satellite view to map view you will decrease data usasage.

PacMap is available from the Android Market.

Via: AppBrain

Plant Hardiness on Google Maps

PlantMaps

This Google Map displays the current USDA plant zone hardiness zones. Hardiness zones are helpful in deciding which trees and plants will survive in a particular area.

There are detailed interactive zone maps for each US state, for example this map of California.

It is possible to search zones by zipcode and view zones down to the sub zone level. By entering your zipcode you can also get first/last freeze, heat zones, drought conditions and annual climatology for your area.

You can also embed the zip to zone search in your website using the PlantMaps widget at Hardiness Zone Zipcode Search Widget

Facilmap.org Beta

Facilmap.org Beta is an OpenLayers-based slippy map that aims to combine useful geographical information, renderings and tools of different projects into one reusable and extend-able map.



Facilmap.org Beta

Some available layers (there are more)

• Mapnik
• Osmarender
• OpenCycleMap
• Minutely Mapnik
• OpenStreetBrowser
• Hike & Bike Map
• OpenPisteMap
• ÖPNV-Karte
• MapSurfer Roads
• MapSurfer Topographic
• Ordnance Survey OS Streetview (UK only)

More information on this project:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FacilMap

Source and Credit to Candid Dauth:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Candid%20Dauth/diary/12723

Map
http://beta.facilmap.org