Friday, January 28, 2011

Friday Fun with Google Maps

Street View Art

Photographer Michael Wolf is currently exhibiting at the Peurs sur la Ville exhibition at the Monnaie de Paris. His exhibition consists of a series of images collected from Google Street View.

Google API Periodic Table

I love this periodic table of all the Google API's. Not only does it look neat, it is pretty useful as well. Geo developers will be mostly interested in the blue API's, which are all geo related.

More Fun With Google Reviews


Google Maps in the UK is displaying a restaurant at the Houses of Parliament called the 'Cameron David' (David Cameron is the British Prime Minister). If you click on the icon there are a number of reviews. For example this handy guide on how to find the (non-existent) restaurant,

"Difficult to find. For those struggling to find David Cameron, walk towards Thatcher then take a sharp right."

Street View Hunting

Google Sightseeing have been Street View hunting and managed to bag this impressive looking reindeer in Norway.

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Google Map of Egyptian Protests

Aljazeera: Mapping Egypt's Day of Wrath

Aljeezeera are using Google Maps to provide up-to-date information about the geographic spread of today's protests in Egypt.

The website of Aljeezeera is displaying two maps, one that shows the location of protest locations in Cairo and the other showing the protests being held elsewhere in the country.

The maps are also accompanied by the video above which also uses Google Maps satellite imagery to provide some context about the locations of the protests.

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The Wrath of Grapes on Google Maps

Where it Went Down


Ever had one of those mornings when you have woken-up hungover and a niggling feeling that you probably did something really stupid the night before? At some point during the day the memories start to come back and you begin to wish the earth would open you up and swallow you whole.

Really your only hope is that the rest of the world has suffered collective amnesia and that the whole episode will pass by unnoticed or at least unremarked.

Well MTV believe that rather than be embarrassed about your drunken exploits you should celebrate them and share them with the world on their 'Where it Went Down' Google Map.

To help promote the television season of Skins, MTV want you to "share the places where memories were made - and the scattered pieces of nights you can’t really remember."

And remember kids prospective employers are always really impressed when they Google your name and discover that you are capable of downing "16 bottles of vintage champagne" and then taking part in "a threesome, a foursome and ludicrous amounts of E."