Sherubtse College Campus Map and Virtual Tour
Sherubtse College, in the Kingdom of Bhutan, has used the Google Maps Custom Street View feature to create a virtual tour of the college campus.
The map includes a number of connected 360 degree panoramas taken both inside and around the campus buildings. Using the internal links in the panoramas it is possible to take a virtual stroll around the campus, just as you would in Google Maps own Street View coverage.
The map itself includes a custom overlay of the college. It is possible to adjust the transparency of the custom overlay and to select to view the indoor or outdoor panoramas.
Other Custom Street View Maps
SpotCrime
UK crime data has been added to SpotCrime and MyLocalCrime. The UK recently launched a national crime map for England and Wales called Police.uk. This data is now available in SpotCrime and MyLocalCrime.
Using both services it is possible to search for a UK address and view the latest crime data for the location on a Google Map. The data for a searched location is also displayed beneath the map. It is possible to click on a map marker to click through to read further details about each recorded crime.
Christchurch 22 Feb 2011 Earthquake
This Google Map uses the Ushahidi map reporting system to record the latest news from Christchurch. The map shows closed roads, open hospitals, recovery centres and hazard zones.
Anyone can post a report to the map by sending an email to eqnzfeb@gmail.com, by sending a tweet with the hashtags '#christchurch', '#eqnz' or '#ChristchurchQuake' or by completing a short form.
Christchurch Quake Map
The Christchurch Quake Map allows you to play time-lapse visualisations of the 4,870 quakes and aftershocks that have struck in the Christchurch area since September 2010. It is also possible to view visualisations of the last seven days of quakes or the 47 that have hit today. The Google Maps plot earthquake data from GeoNet.
The animations show the epicentre of each shock and are colour-coded to show the depth of each quake and scaled to reflect the quake's strength.
Google Person Finder - Christchurch
Google have released a person finder application for today's Christchurch earthquake. Using the application it is possible to search for information or add information for someone who may have been affected by the earthquake.
Marine GeoGarage
GeoGarage Marine, the portal to international marine maps, has added 227 marine charts for the Netherlands.
GeoGarage uses Google Maps to display marine charts from around the world. The site currently provides marine chart overlays from NOAA (US), DHN (Brazil) and Linz (New Zealand). Marine GeoGarage's web interface also gives subscription members access to all private charts from the UKHO (UK), CHS (Canada), SHN (Argentina).
GeoGarage Marine is not only a seamless chart viewer, overlaying charts at different scales on aerial and satellite imagery from Google Maps, but also allows the user to plot waypoints and to prepare navigation routes. These can be saved and uploaded to GPS (in gpx format or directly to Garmin GPS via its Communicator web plugin).
