Your Trash on a Google Map

VanTrash

If you live in Vancouver you now have no excuse for forgetting to put out your trash for collection. The city have developed this Google Maps mashup to inform residents about when their trash will be collected.

The map shows the regions for the city's trash pick-ups. If you click on a region you can then download the pick-up dates to your Google calendar or to Outlook. It is also possible to set up Twitter or email reminders informing you to put your trash out the night before the collection is due.

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Control Search Lights with Google Maps

Vectorial Elevation Vancouver

This truly amazing interactive art project in Vancouver allows you to control powerful search lights that are lighting up Vancouver’s skyline. The Vectorial Elevation website uses Google Maps and the Google Earth browser plugin as the interface for users to design their own light show that will then be beamed over Vancouver.

Once you have designed your own light sculpture your submission is added to the queue. Every night from dusk to dawn the submitted designs are then let loose on the skyline.

The project automatically creates a personal web page for each participant, documenting his or her contribution with views from four project webcams. You can view the position of each webcam from another Google Map and you can choose to view all four webcams at once or view just one at a time.

Wow! you have to check this out.

Hat-tip: Street View Gallery
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2010 Winter Olympics Maps

With the Winter Olympics fast approaching I'm sure this will be the the first post of many featuring Canadian and Winter Olympics maps.

3D Olympic Venues

Google recently added 3D buildings in Google Earth for all the Winter Olympics venues. Soren of microformats.dk has produced this Google Earth browser tour of all the venues.

To view the tour just press play. This application requires that you have the Google Earth browser plug-in to view the amazing 3D buildings.

Vancouver Sun Winter Olympics Map

The Vancouver Sun has produced a Google Map 'for everything at the 2010 Winter Olympics'.

The map includes sporting venues, complete with schedules and history; government pavilions, other countries' pavilions and houses, sponsor sites and events, transportation lines, road closures, the Flag Walk, the Olympic Line and park and ride facilities.

Cycling Metro Vancouver

This cycling route finder map for Vancouver allows cyclists to search for routes that have such features as minimum elevation gains, minimum air pollution, and minimum distances.

The site has recently been updated to include Olympic venues, venue security road closures (cycling prohibited), Olympic lanes with cycling prohibited and Olympic lanes with open bike lanes.

Via: Street View Gallery

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