Newspapermap This Google Map provides a great way to browse nearly 10,000 of the world's newspapers.
The newspapers are categorised on the map by language. Each information window contains links to the websites of the listed newspapers and to read the papers through Google Translate.
If you visit the site on your mobile you can view a special Google Map customised for phones. The mobile site has been built with the jQuery Mobile framework so will work on most mobile phones.
Time Shutter Time Shutter is another great Google Maps based website that allows people to see how cities used to look and how they have changed. Users can upload historical images to the site and browse through the images submitted by others.
Currently the site is concentrating on historical images of San Francisco but images for New York will also soon be added. The site includes many postcards of San Francisco from around 1900 and includes a historical map overlay featuring the Chevalier Commercial, Pictorial and Tourist Map of San Francisco from 1903.
Time Shutter is also available as a free iPhone application.
Hospedate.pe Here is the first ever Peruvian Google Maps mashup to feature on Google Maps Mania. Being one-eighth Peruvian myself I hope it is only the first of many.
Hospedate.pe is a Google Maps based guide to hotels in Lima. The map allows you to search for hotels by location and order the results by price or by the hotel's rating.
If you click on a hotel's map marker you can get details about the services provided, the address of the hotel, a link to the hotel's website and view the hotel's rating.
UK Rail Tweet Map Until now there has been no way to visualise the dawn chorus of complaining commuters. Hurrah then, for the #ukrailtweetmap, which is trying to do for public transport what #UKSnow did for the weather.
Judging by my Twitter stream, micro-blogging services were invented to give passengers a means to vent their anger at delays on the public transportation system.
This Google Map of Tweets with the hashtag '#ukrailtweetmap' shows the location and the messages of people who have tweeted about their journey on the UK train network. To add a tweet to the map, use the hashtag #ukrailtweetmap and specify the nearest train station.
Now, to find out about the latest delays to the UK railways, you just need to fire up this Google Map and read all the submitted complaints.
What Was There What Was There uses Google Maps to show historical photographs in their modern physical context.
Anyone can upload a photograph to What Was There with two straightforward tags to show the pictures location and date. The fun however really comes from browsing the uploaded photographs superimposed on the modern view in Street View.
What Was There includes a slider that allows you to adjust the transparency of the photograph. This really helps in allowing you to compare the photo to the current Street View.
Historypin This joint effort from Google and We Are What We Do allows anyone to add historical photographs to Google Maps.
Historypin includes a great interface allowing users to superimpose a photo on the Street View of the location shown in the picture. When users upload photographs to the site they are invited to tell the stories behind the pictures. This makes browsing the uploaded photographs a fascinating experience.
SepiaTown SepiaTown is a website that geo-tags historical photographs on Google Maps.
You can search the map by location and the thumbnails of available historical photographs will be displayed on the Google Map. You can click on a thumbnail image to see a larger version with file and credit information, as well as notes and commentary.
If you have your own historical photographs you can add them to the map.
LookBackMaps LookBackMaps is a collection of historical photographs that can be compared to the same current view as seen on Google Maps Street View.
The photographs are geotagged and displayed on a Google Map. Users of the map can select a date range for the photographs that they wish to view. To view a photograph alongside the current Street View just click on any of the pictures inside the information windows.
To add your own historical photographs to the map you just need to register with LookBackMaps.
HistoGrafica HistoGrafica is an on-line community whose aim is to show in pictures how the world has changed through time. In essence HistoGrafica is an archive of old photographs and pictures tagged on a Google Map.
'There and Then' is my attempt to create a map based portal to view some historical films, uploaded to YouTube, superimposed over their current Street View.
When you select to view a particular Street View you need to use the buttons beneath the map to control the embedded video.
Your Twitter Followers Mapped Here's a cool way to view what your Twitter followers are saying, on a Google Map. Your Twitter Followers Mapped animates through the latest Tweets from people you follow on Twitter.
To view your followers on the map just change the name in the URL to your Twitter user name. Once the page loads the map will then animate through the latest messages from your followers. You can then just sit back and watch.
Also See
Map My Following An application that lets you view on a Google Map the locations of people who follow you on Twitter.
HarassMap HarasssMap is using the Ushahidi incident reporting platform to provide a Google Map of sexual harassment incidents in Egypt.
The project has been created by volunteers with expertise in the issue of sexual harassment in Egypt and the aim is to implement a new system for reporting cases of sexual harassment via SMS messaging.
The Ushahidi platform has been used as it provides a confidential means for women to report incidents and provides a Google Map visualisation of the seriousness and prevalence of the problem.
