Finding Coupons on Google Maps

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RadarFrog offers local and national deals and coupons nationwide across the USA. To help you find local deals RadarFrog uses Google Maps to show you all the deals currently available in your area.

You can search the map by address and by category. The resulting deals and coupons are then displayed on the map. If you click on any of the map markers you can view the details of the deal and click through to find out more and print any coupons offered.

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Aerial Photo Map of the Australian Floods

NearMap

Brisbane, 13th Jan 2011


Brisbane, 12th Sept 2010

NearMap is an aerial photo map of Australia that updates and adds new imagery every month. The amazing level and frequency of coverage on NearMap means that it gives a unique overview of the devastation caused by the Australian flooding.

A great feature of NearMap is a time-line that allows you to compare the most recent aerial imagery with historical imagery. The screenshot at the top of this post was taken on the 13th Jan 2011. Using the time-line we can see how this location usually looks, without flooding, by viewing the same location on 12th Sept 2010.

NearMap uses OpenStreetMap rather the Google Maps API but I think it deserves to sneak through the normally strict screening process of Google Maps Mania.

Also See

• Queensland Floods - Google Map from the Google Crisis Response team.
  
• ABC Qld Flood Crisis Map - Map using the Ushahidi crisis reporting platform.
• Panedia - Brisbane Flooding Panoramas - 360 degree panoramas of the flooding in Brisbane
• Australian Early Warning Network - Bureau of Meteorology information and emergency alerts

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Sunday Best

This week Google Maps Mania has spent a lot of time reporting on Google Maps produced in response to the flooding in Australia. The most informative map was produced by the Google Crisis Response team but the map with the most emotional impact has to be Panedia's map of 40 panoramic images of the flooding in Brisbane.

Meanwhile the New York Times took time out to acknowledge the anniversary of the Chilean earthquake with a visualisation of satellite images taken before and after the quakes.


Panedia - Brisbane Flooding Panoramas


Destruction in Haiti, Then and Now


Google Crisis Response - Queensland Floods


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Cell Tower Triangulation

Skyhook - Coverage Map

Skyhook provide a location system based on Wi-Fi positioning, GPS and cell tower triangulation. It uses the hundreds of millions of Wi-Fi access points around the world to provide accurate location information.

To pinpoint location Skyhook uses a massive reference network of the known locations of over 250 million Wi-Fi access points and cellular towers. Skyhook's extensive coverage area includes most major metro areas in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

The Skyhook Coverage map uses Google Maps to display the extent of Skyhook's huge network. The map includes a search option that allows you to search the map by address.

Local Faves
If you wish to uses Skyhook's data in an iPhone application you can connect via Local Faves.

Local Faves is an SDK that enables location features in iPhone apps. Developers can use Local Faves to simply and quickly add location tagging, check-ins, user rankings and cool map visualizations of where content was viewed.

More Google Maps 45º Imagery

Google Maps have released more Bird's Eye imagery in a number of US cities.


Tower of the Americas, San Antonio

The new cities given Google Maps' oblique satellite views are:

Contra Costa County, CA
Escondido, CA
Long Beach, CA
Norfolk, VA
New Orleans, LA
San Antonio, TX
St Petersburg, FL
Tucson, AZ
Van Nuys, CA

I've updated my pick of Google Maps Aerial Views - Aerial View Map - to include aerial imagery from the latest cities added.



Via: Google LatLong

Google Maps Under 10k

10k Apart
10k Apart was a competition to build a web app in less than 10 kilobytes. A number of the entries used the Google Maps API.

Street View Funny took time out of their busy schedule of travelling and archiving the world of Street View to sift through the 10K Apart competition for the Google Maps entries.

HeatmapJS

HeatmapJS is an HTML5 application that allows you to quickly create heat maps with your data. To create a map you just need to enter your data and HeatmapJS will magically create a heat map with Google Maps.

Once you generate a heat map, you can save it and share the link with your friends / readers.

SunCalc Lite

SunCalc Lite is an app that shows sun movement and sunlight phases during a given day at a given location with a nice visualization on Google Maps.

You can see the full (not under 10k) version of this application at SunCalc

Rick-Fare Map

This entry enables you to know how much you should pay for an auto-rickshaw trip.

To work out the potential cost of your fare you need to click on the map to select your starting location and then click on the map again to show your destination. You can also drag the markers around to update routes.

Big Picture Small World

This app uses the Yahoo! Query Language to display images from The Big Picture on a Google Map. The app uses YQL to analyse the image captions for geographical names and then places them on a map.

A list of links below the map allows you to load images from different Big Picture collections.

Australian Flooding Twitter Maps

Historic Flooding in Australia - Tweets Mapped

Here is another Google Map that displays Tweets about the current flooding in Australia.

The map animates through the latest Twitter messages that use the hashtag #qldfloods. Many of the messages displayed on the map are informative, outlining help available and giving updates on the latest news about road closures etc.

Tweak the Tweet Queensland Flooding is also mapping the #qldfloods Twitter messages.

Also See

• Queensland Floods - Google Map from the Google Crisis Response team.
  
• ABC Qld Flood Crisis Map - Map using the Ushahidi crisis reporting platform.
• Panedia - Brisbane Flooding Panoramas - 360 degree panoramas of the flooding in Brisbane
• Australian Early Warning Network - Bureau of Meteorology information and emergency alerts

You can donate to the Flood Relief Appeal here.

Snapr - the iPhone Photo Mapping App

Snapr - Map View

Snapr is an iPhone application for sharing geo-tagged photographs. With Snapr's free application for iPhone you can take pictures and upload them to the Snapr Google Map and to your Twitter account.

If you zoom into any location on the Snapr map you are shown the latest 20 photographs taken in that area. When you view an individual image the map is set to the time when that image was taken.

Registered users of Snapr can pick favorites, add comments, and manage their individual photostream ('My Snaps'). If you don't have an iPhone you can visit the Snapr mobile optimised site m.sna.pr and upload photos by visitingm.sna.pr/upload/.

Via: Mashable

Google Crisis Response - Queensland

Queensland Floods

The Google Crisis Response team has produced what looks to be a very useful Google Map for anyone affected by the current flooding in Australia.

The map initially shows the levels of flooding but also includes a number of other layers. A layer showing Queensland road closures should be very useful for anyone in that area. There is also a layer to view the locations of evacuation centres.

The map includes two layers displaying third party data. One from ABC displays the towns and cities affected by the floods and another from SBS shows the worst affected areas.

Also See

• ABC Qld Flood Crisis Map - Map using the Ushahidi crisis reporting platform.
• Tweak the Tweet Queensland Flooding - map showing the latest #qldfloods Tweets
• Australian Early Warning Network - Bureau of Meteorology information and emergency alerts

You can donate to the Flood Relief Appeal here.

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360 Panoramas of the Brisbane Floods

Panedia - Brisbane Flooding Panoramas

I've been watching the news reports about the current flooding in Australia but nothing I have seen has quite had the emotional impact of this Google Map of 360 degree panoramas shot in Brisbane today.

The map includes 40 interactive panoramas of the flooding in Brisbane that can be viewed directly from the map. The flood has affected more than 25,000 properties in the Brisbane area. Queensland Premier Anna Bligh says it is "the worst natural disaster in our history and possibly in the history of our nation."

These interactive panoramas give a first person view of the floods and are therefore able to convey incredibly effectively the impact that the flooding has had on the city.

Have a look at the panoramas and then donate to the Flood Relief Appeal.

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