Find the Best Chinese Food with Google Map

Chinese Food Map

Here is a map for all lovers of Chinese food. The map shows Chinese restaurants for the whole of the United States.

You can search the map by dragging and zooming the map or by entering an address in the search bar. Alternatively, if you are searching for a specific restaurant, you can search for restaurants by name.

If your favourite Chinese restaurant is missing from the map you can add it and your rating and review will be added to the map.

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Trains Added to Google Maps for Android

Google Maps for Android version 4.3 has added new features to help you quickly choose the right place to grab dinner, catch the next train, and find friends to add in Latitude.

Public transit station pages have been given a boost with Google Maps for Android 4.3. Now if you select a transit station icon on Google Maps you will find a handy list of the next departure times for trains, subway trains, and / or buses.



The new version of Google Maps also makes it easy for you to add friends to Google Latitude. At the bottom of your Google Latitude friends list you will now find a link to add more friends from your contacts list.

Google have also made it easier for Android users to get reviews of places. Instead of taking you straight to full reviews of places, with Google Maps for Android 4.3 you will now see color-coded review bars giving you an overview of what people think about the location. If you tap one of the review bars you can get more details like the actual review snippets.

Hat-tip: Mapperz Via: Official Google Mobile Blog

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G20 Toronto Summit on Google Maps

G20 Toronto 2010 Summit

Toronto is hosting a G20 summit on June 26-27. CBC.ca have produced this Google Map to show how venues, areas, and routes will be affected during the summit.

The map shows the location of all the checkpoints that will be in operation, areas that will be restricted and the various zones that will be in operation. The demonstration zone is clearly shown on the map, as is the protester detention area.

A number of TTC Routes will be affected during the summit. It is possible to view all the affected lines on the map and get details of how they will be affected. CBC.ca have also created a Google Earth browser plug-in tour of the summit location.

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Virtual March Against the Finance Bill

March for Main Street

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce have created a protest Google Map as part of its lobbying campaign against the financial-overhaul legislation in the U.S. Congress. 24,000 people have already placed map markers on the satellite image of the National Mall on Google Maps.

The idea for the campaign is clearly inspired by the Taksim virtual protest against internet censorship in Turkey.

The U.S. Chambers map has markers that reveal the name and location of the person who placed it. It is possible to change the map to view the markers mapped by the protester's address. It is also possible to select to view only protesters from a particular state.

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Traffic Cams Added to Driving Directions

Check Your London Driving Route for Traffic

Google Maps mashups based on Transport for London data are now coming thick and fast. Last week Tfl, the body responsible for public transport in the UK capital, released a Transport for London API. Yesterday we saw the Live London Underground Map and, this morning came, Live Line, two mashups built on real-time train positions on the London Underground network.

This afternoon I found this traffic webcam map for London. The map lets you get driving directions for any route in London and then view all the traffic cams along the route. This allows drivers to see at a glance how much traffic is on the roads on the planned route.

This is a great idea that I don't think I've seen implemented elsewhere. Considering that traffic cam feeds are fairly abundant around the world I have a feeling a lot of map developers will jump on this idea and create something similar for other cities. At least I hope so.

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Coastal Care Fairs on Google Maps

Our Home, Louisiana

The Our Home, Louisiana Coalition is a partnership founded by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana to provide support to the people of the Louisiana Coast who are affected by the crisis in the Gulf.

Starting on June 22 the Coalition will be holding 12 Coastal Care Fairs beginning in Grand Isle and continuing through the summer. The fairs aim to bring employment information, health resources and other assistance to those whose lives have been affected by the Gulf oil spill crisis.

You can find out where and when the fairs are being held on Our Home, Louisiana's Google Map, featured prominently on the site's home page.

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Watch & Tweet the Footie with Google Maps

WM-Mania

WM-Mania has gone World Cup mad. They have produced a number of Google Maps based pages to help German's support their team.

The main page includes a Google Map displaying over 16,000 Sky Sports bars in Germany that are showing the World Cup games. You can click on any one of the bars to Tweet to your friends where you are watching the game. Each marker also includes a link to a details page about the bar, where you can also post a message to Facebook.

The main page features a live Tweets stream that shows all the latest Tweets sent from the site.

WM - Stadium Special

The Stadium Special page lets you view the Google Maps Street View for each of the World Cup stadia. The page also includes information from Wikipedia about each of the stadia and the latest photos from Flickr.

You can also view the results of matches played at each one of the stadia and view the upcoming fixtures.

If by this time you are a little tired of Google Maps you can head over to the Schedule page. Here you can view the latest group tables, the fixture schedules and the match results.

WM-Mania is a joint project from Ubilabs and Sky-Sport-Bars.

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