In Their Honour Google Map

In Their Honour

This Google Maps mashup uses the records of 100,000 Australian service men and women and shows the 5,000 cemeteries around the world where they are buried. The map uses data with the permission of The Commonwealth War Grave Commision.

The site uses Google Maps to show all of the records on one map. Alternatively it is possible to search for a particular service man or woman and view their individual records.

The site also contains a Google Map of photographs. This map is uses to record user contributions, personal histories and historical events. The map uses the Simile Time-Line so that it is possible to search the map by date.

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Pacman on Google Maps

Google Maps Pacman
How's this for freakin' awesome - a Pacman game on Google Maps? The game comes complete with monsters and power pills.



Currently the game only works in FireFox. It doesn't load in Internet Explorer and, whilst it seems to load in Chrome, there is no control over the Pacman character. I think I've caught this game at an early stage of development, the controls are a little tricky and I think there are some obvious bugs to iron out.

However I love the concept and the game has some nice touches, like letting the player choose the location for the game.

Roomba Pacman
Whilst we are on the subject of Pacman I saw this Roomba Pacman yesterday on Gizmodo. Basically it is a real world game of Pacman played with robo-vacuum cleaners.

Check out the monitor in the video below, it appears that Google Maps is being used as the interface for the game,



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Vote for the US Street View Trike

US Street View Trike Collections
Google asked for suggestions of where the Street View trike should visit in the US and were inundated with 25,000 suggestions.



Google have now created a short-list from the suggestions and are allowing the public to vote on the locations they would most like to see on Google Maps. The contending locations are in a number of categories, Parks & Trails, University Campuses, Pedestrian Malls, Theme Parks & Zoos and Landmarks.

You can vote as many times as you like until the deadline at 11:59pm PST, Monday, November 30th.

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Google Maps the Camino de Santiago

El Camino de Santiago Mapplet
Every year tens of thousands of people undertake the pilgrimage of the Camino de Santiago across northern Spain. Their destination is the Santiago de Compostela.


Santiago de Compostela in Street View

Svmapplets have produced a Google Maps mapplet of the pilgrimage mapping hostels and monuments along the route. The map features two drop down menus, one for the hostels and one for monuments. The map uses scallop shells (the symbol of the Camino de Santiago) as the map markers.

Due to this week's huge update to Street View in Spain it is possible to now view most of the hostels and mapped monuments in Street View.

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How to get Lost with Google Maps

Washington Post 'Lost' Map

The Washington Post have used their excellent Google Maps time-line interface 'TimeSpace' to try and make sense of of the labyrinthine plot of the popular television programme 'Lost'.

The map allows you to explore the show by year, location or season. The map markers include small summaries of the storyline and photographs of the show's stars. The information windows also contain links to episode explanations on Celebritology.

There is an embed option that allows you to put the map in your own website and the option to link to the current map view.

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Protected Marine Areas Mapped

UK Marine Protected Areas Map

This Google Maps mashup from the UK Marine Protected Areas Centre shows the location of different Marine Protected Areas in the United Kingdom. Currently it displays information on Special Areas of Conservation (SAC), Special Protection Areas (SPA), Voluntary MPAs and Marine Nature Reserves (MNR).

There are plans to develop the map further to display key information about each of the sites, with contact details for the MPA manager/warden/nature conservation agency officer and a link to relevant websites.

Via: Mapperz

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Historical Photos & Street View Mashup

Then & Now

Then & Now is another entry from the MashupAustralia contest. The map is a mashup of historical photographs from Flickr and Google Maps Street View. In essence the site places historical photographs on Google Maps and shows the same location as it is now via Google's Street View imagery.

Unfortunately there are a lot of false results produced and many of the photographs end up with a 'Sorry, there is no streetview available for this location' message. However, the occasions when it does work, more than make up for the disappointment when it doesn't.

Via: @geoparadigm


I'm a great fan of these historical Google Maps mashups. Here are few of my favourite maps in a similar vein:

Tate Gallery Mapplet

The Tate have used Street View to help explore locations depicted in a special selection of their artworks. The mapplet tries to show the same view as depicted in the paintings. Part of the idea behind the mapplet is to explore how urban and rural environments have changed.

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.

Utrecht van Boven - historical photos of Utrecht on a Google Map
Sydney Sidetracks - a map of audio, video and photographic records of Sydney's past
HistoGrafica - historical photographs on Google Maps
Virtual Time Travel - archive film of locations. One of my own old mashups. Some of the videos may now have been removed from YouTube but there are still enough old films here to make it worth a visit.

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