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A few quick map and map-related gems to share with you:

• Claire showcases another collection of map tattoos.
• Indiana Jones and the Fonts on the Maps: Mark Simonson notes that the maps used in the Indiana Jones movies are anachronistic.
• Presenting the annoying (and quite likely offensive) Sat Nag: “Press the button on the front and a very well-recorded, patronising woman’s voice will come out with one of a host of hysterical Sat Nav-type commands.” Oh dear. Via Gizmodo.
• Modern Mechanix: Blind Get Fair Map Printed in Braille, from the October 1939 issue of Popular Science.
• Boing Boing has a hand-drawn 1955 map of New Jersey’s prisons.
• A replica of Paris built from refuse. Also via Boing Boing.
• A 150-year-old map of New York’s Central Park was on display last week. Maybe I should have told you sooner. Via MapHist and GeoCarta.

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Google Geo Mashup Montage
The following video played on the monitors of the Geo booth at the recent Google I/O event. It features a montage of things that can be done with various geo products like Earth, Sketchup, and of course Maps. Skip ahead to 0:50 to see a smattering of cool mashups and My Maps:

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Related: YouTube Playlist: All Google Geo Videos

New and updated mashups:

• WeatherUnderground.com + Google Maps = WunderMap! [Press release here..]
• Simple, fun “Find that Country” Google Maps Game
• A real-time plot of product reviews on 200+ retailer websites
• The Society Google maps luxury holiday rentals
• New eBay Google Maps Search Mashups: BuyItNearby & Auction Search Kit
• MapOfVideo: Mapped video clips + Wikipedia
• RoadTripHelper maps hotels worldwide and finds you the best price by searching major travel sites.

• Mappery.com integrates a Google Earth view in your browser!- Mappery is a cool maps index that plots locations of map collections (PDFs, JPGs, scanned paper maps etc..) It’s a great concept to view maps that otherwise would be very hard to browse and view.

• Panedia is working on mapping every intersection in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia!

Aaron has also added his 5000th panorama to nearly cover all of Australia. Watch for him at next weeks’s Google Developer Day. Here is his panorama of last year’s event.

• Google Maps live video mashup, Seero have created a GPX uploader to let you upload pre-recorded videos plus a GPX track to sync them both together on a map. More details are in this Seero Blog post!

More stuff:

• Media/News Maps Mashup pioneer Patrick Cain of the Toronto Star introduces a new blog and feature for TheStar.com: Map of the Week
• Reddit.com - Geospatial - a good way to track new Google Maps mashups and other fun geo stuff!
• Gizmodo shows us how Google really places Map markers!
• Press Coverage for the great Book Maps concept, The 21 Steps: Newsweek.com: Telling Stories the Online Way & ReadWriteWeb: Love it or Hate It: Penguin’s Putting Books on Twitter and Google Maps
• Learn how to use Google Maps to plan your next trip!

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The prolific Virender Ajmani from the Mibazaar blog has produced two Google Maps showing the life journeys of Barack Obama and John McCain from birth to … well probably the White House for one of them.

• Barack Obama’s Journey to the White House
• John McCain’s Journey to the White House

Both maps can be set to autoplay or manual. When set on autoplay the map automatically animates from one stage of a candidate’s biography on the map to the next. Both Obama and McCain are better travelled than many past presidential candidates so this geographical biography of the candidates works very well.

Both life journeys are also available as Google Gadgets. Download the gadgets to your iGoogle page here:

• Barack Obama’s Journey to the White House
• John McCain’s Journey to the White House

Related:

• Barack Obama’s Life Journey on Google Maps
• MapTheCandidates.com: ‘08 U.S. presidential election mashup
• Google Map of 2008 Presidential Contributions
• Wikipedia: Iowa Caucus

For more Google Maps elections mashups, click the label below..

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Leica Titan has actually been out for a while. There is a post on OgleEarth from December 2006 when the first product was just coming out. My first try with it was not so smooth. But recent updates have gone much better.

It appears to be your standard 3d earth browser, but is oriented more towards data sharing and collaboration. It has a built in instant messanger to share your spatial data with others.

Leica Titan Globe

Search for a Place and zoom

Load a shapefile. It seems to be able to handle many different formats.

You can change feature colors (not based on attributes).

Click on a loaded feature to view attributes

You can also load photos and place notes on the Earth to send to others. Performance was not to bad, though navigation was a bit touchy and took some getting used to. It seemed to me to be a bit like ArcGIS Explorer, but without the extensibility.

Leica TITAN is available for download.

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1. Find a world brewery
2. Track world terrorism
3. Find a WiFi Hotspot in the US
4. Align your satellite dish properly
5. Catch live music in your area
6. Track a US package
7. See the world at night
8. Walk in a straight line around the world
9. Explore the new 7 wonders of the world (More)
10. Map [...]

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MapEcos: Awesome US Environmental Performance Mashup:

MapEcos is a Google Maps mashup that “presents a balanced view of industrial environmental performance.” It mashes up with the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) dataset from the EPA and then displays the information logically on a map so an average person can understand what the factory down the [...]

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Make a Google Maps Wall Calendar! - Looking for a 2008 Wall calendar? Make a Google Maps wall calendar with Piet Jonas’ GMaps Wall Calendar Generator. Center and zoom the map to a place you want to capture and click “Open Print Preview” to create the calendar page. Further customize the month view [...]

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Lots of new hardware and apps integrating with Google Maps!:

iPhone 1.1.3 Video showing new Google Maps features - (See: 04:10 -> 06:05)
Amazon Kindle Easter Egg: Google Maps!
Google Maps iPhoneSender.com - Browser plugin that allows you to email a Google Map link to your iPhone.[More info here]
Send Google Maps addresses to your Tom Tom
Nokia [...]

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Online flight trackers are useful for knowing when to leave to meet guests at the airport and practical stuff like that. IFly is using the Virtual Earth map control as their visualization engine on their website which gives them traditional 2D views of where a flight is in realtime, but it also gives [...]

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Now we have a route from ESRI’s ArcMap into Second Life it opens up all sorts of possibilities for importing geographical data into an environment that is ripe for public participation and collaboration type outreach activities.
The movie below details various population data sets displayed per London Borough, it is still beta but we [...]

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Flickr Places organizes geotagged photos into location-based pages — even my little town gets its own page. Meanwhile, Flickr’s map goes from pushpins to tags, which may necessarily not be an improvement. Announcements: Flickr Blog, Yahoo Local and Maps Blog.

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geo2web.com%2F2007%2F11%2F28%2Fflickr-places%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Flickr+Places’;
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Realius Fantasy Real Estate Game (WARNING: Very addictive!)

This *addictive* Bay Area (US) real estate game uses Google Maps to challenge you to tour a home and set its market price right on the spot. Nail the price and it earns you big points. I was getting to know a particular neighborhood and nailing [...]

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Google Earth 4.2 includes Sky, which allows you to view and browse stars, planets and more. A fellow Googler has posted an excellent guide to publishing KML-based content in Sky. Complete with examples, this document describes how you can display objects in Sky and how KML elements work in Sky. View this document.
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Google Maps coverage expands… 54 more countries covered.
Update 18/09/2007
Pamela Fox (Google Maps API Team) introduces Google Spreadsheets New Features that use your data (xml, html, csv, tsv, as well as RSS and Atom based)
In combination with the Google Maps API you can now view the new tiles via her mashup.

note1 - the Google [...]

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Mapserver 5.0.0 Released
“Beyond browsing GIS data, MapServer allows you create “geographic image maps”, that is, maps that can direct users to content”

Example Screenshot of Mapserver
New features in Mapserver Version 5.0.0:
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- MS RFC 19: Added Style and Label attribute binding
- MS RFC 21: Raster Colour Correction via colour lookup table
- MS RFC 27: Added [...]

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