If you’re eager to go on a summer road trip but gas prices have you a little hesitant, the 2D Driving Simulator is for you. Developed using the Google Maps API for Flash that we recently unveiled, it lets you test your (virtual) driving skills at the high speeds of the Autobahn or see how you fare on the other side of the road in London.
You can also read what the simulator’s creator, Katsuomi Kobayashi, has to say about it over on the Geo Developers blog. Drive safely!
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Celebrating NBC’s Tim Russert’s life on a map - Virender Ajmani creates this map-based tribute to the late Tim Russert.
Travel: New mashups for the summer holiday season..
BeerMenus New York City:
…This simple NYC Google Maps mashup plots the loctions of over 292 Beer Menus, 1532 Beers and 34 Events to one map. Click any of the pins to reveal each pub or restaurant’s full, categorized beer menu, sortable by price!
Click the USA label below to read about many more US mashups that can be used to help plan your travels this summer..
Crime Maps update:
SpotCrime.com now includes over 100 US Cities:
This Google Maps crime mashup was previously only available for Baltimore. That has definitely changed! SpotCrime has added over 100 cities and several cities have their own Mapplet that you can add directly to your own Google Maps view. Combine real estate mapplets with the SpotCrime city you’re in to perform power housing maps search. Engadget’s Switched and TechCrunch also recently reviewed SpotCrime.
New History Maps:
Click any of the below labels to read about many more mashups within these topics or browse their categories along the right sidebar..
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Tags: Google Maps·Mashups·US
In a previous incarnation I used to pay the rent by juggling for a living. One of the skills I used to boast, but which has now inexplicably dropped off my resume, was riding a unicycle. I am therefore delighted to report on the Ride the Lobster race.
Ride the Lobster is an 800km unicycle relay race, taking place from June 16-20th, 2008 in Nova Scotia Canada. If you are unable to get to Nova Scotia to observe this event in person then don’t worry because this year there is a live real-time tracking map of the teams on Google Maps.
It has been nearly twenty years since I was last on a unicycle myself but I understand it is like riding a bike. Maybe I’ll enter next year.
Via: Google Earth Blog
Offshore Super Series
Also taking place this week is the Don Aronow Memorial Race at Sunny Isles Beach, Florida. The race is part of the Offshore Super Series of powerboat races and takes place June 19-22.
For the occasion the Powerboat Racing Association have produced a useful Google Map of the circuit. The map describes each of the turns on the circuit and includes an embedded video, presumably of last year’s event. Local hotels are also mapped with information on cost and room type.
If you live anywhere nearby then pop along to Sunny Isles Beach as the event is free to watch from anywhere on the beach!
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Tags: Boat Racing·Google Maps
Senghor on the Rocks
Not related to Bloomsday at all but a literary event in its own right is the hugely impressive Senghor on the Rocks, ‘the first full-length novel consistently illustrated with Google Maps’.
Every page of Senghor on the Rocks is accompanied by a corresponding satellite view of the current location in the story. When the location changes in the novel the map animates the route to the new location. To achieve this the developers created their own extensions to the Google Maps API, such as long-distance panning and a moveable and rotatable arrow on the map that indicates specific locations.
The novel is presented through the interesting visual metaphor of a book. Each page of text is illustrated with a Google Map. Clicking on the page on the screen will take you to the next page of the story.
Another interesting development in this map is that time in the novel is represented visually on the map. The map gets darker and darker during the evening and at night, and brighter than normal at noon.
If you like the idea behind Senghor on the Rocks you should also take a look at The 21 Steps, which is another attempt to illustrate a fictional story with Google Maps. If you speak German you will like Senghor on the Rocks even more.
I can’t wait for the English translation guys (hint)!
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Tags: Google Maps·Novel
Bloomsday (Irish: L? Bhloom) is a commemoration observed annually on 16 June in Dublin and elsewhere to celebrate the life of Irish writer James Joyce and relive the events in his novel Ulysses, all of which took place on the same day in Dublin in 1904. The name derives from Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of Ulysses, and 16 June was the date of Joyce’s first outing with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle, when they walked to the Dublin village of Ringsend (thank you Wikipedia).
The project Joyce Walks is a Google Maps mashup which remaps routes from James Joyce’s Ulysses to any other city, generating maps which users can use to recreate Bloomsday anywhere in the world. Participants can then generate an embeddable map for their own website or blog.
Joyce Walks have produced a map of Bloom’s day in Dublin. Each location that he visits during the day is tagged on the map. Each tag contains the text from the novel and is accompanied by a short panoramic video of the location.
However Joyce Walks is a also a tool which generates walking maps based on routes from James Joyce’s Ulysses in any city in the world using Google Maps. The system prints maps to be used as the basis of walks exploring the city of your choice and generates maps that include pictures and videos.
James Joyce Walking Tour
The James Joyce Walking Tour maps a stroll around central Dublin, concentrating on places that are associated with James Joyce and the characters in his novels and stories. The tour starts at the home of Leopold Bloom at No. 7 Eccles Street and ends at Grafton Street.
Each stage of the walk is tagged on the map and includes extensive notes about the location’s relevance to either Joyce or his stories.
Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Google Book search (under the ‘about this book’ tab) includes a Google Map of places mentioned in Joyce’s Ulysees and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
A KML of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man also exists, which can also be viewed on Google Maps.
You Might Also Enjoy these Dublin Maps on Bloomsday
Just Routes - public transport route planner for Dublin
Dart Maps - real time tracking of trains in Dublin.
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Tags: Bloomsday·Google Maps
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