The Summits of Europe on Google Maps

Gipfel Europas

Gipfel Europas is a lovingly designed personal website by a German climber, about the mountains and summits of Europe.

The site boasts an interactive Google Map header that shows all the summits climbed by Peter Ulrich and also acts as a menu to the individual summits. The map can be enlarged by clicking on the down arrow and the individual summit pages can be accessed by selecting it from the map.

Each individual page includes details on the summit's page and also an interactive graph that show the summit's height in comparison to Europe's other mountains.



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Share a Travel Journal with Google Maps

Traveljournals.net

Traveljournals.net provides a simple means for travellers to share their journeys and travel photographs with their family and friends. Registered users of the site can upload their travel journals and pictures and get a unique URL that they are free to share with anyone they want.

Traveljournals.net provides a simple Google Maps interface to the journeys uploaded to the site. The map displays markers around the world where stories have been submitted. If you roll-over a map marker you can view statistics about the number of stories submitted in that region,

If you click on a map marker you will be taken to the dedicated page for the selected country / region where you can then browse the shared travel journals and photographs.

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Volunteering with Google Maps

Cancer Research UK

Cancer UK are using Google Maps to provide a store locator and to promote volunteering opportunities and upcoming events.

The Cancer UK Google Map shows the location of the organisation's shops as well as the location of volunteering opportunities and local events. It is possible to search the map by address and filter the results by category of 'shop', 'volunteering' or 'events'.

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6,500 Aerial Photos of the Australian Floods

Above Photography Map of the Queensland Floods

Above Photography have used Google Fusion Tables to create a Google Map that displays aerial photographs of the damage caused by the flooding in Queensland, Australia.

The map includes over 6,500 aerial photographs of the Brisbane suburbs and Rockhampton when the flooding was at its peak, as well as imagery from the Lockyer Valley.

Also See

• NearMap - aerial photo map of Australia. New imagery includes the recent flooding
• Queensland Floods - Google Map from the Google Crisis Response team.
  
• ABC Qld Flood Crisis Map - Map using the Ushahidi crisis reporting platform.
• Panedia - Brisbane Flooding Panoramas - 360 degree panoramas of the flooding in Brisbane
• Australian Early Warning Network - Bureau of Meteorology information and emergency alerts

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The Truth is Out There on Google Maps

UFO Stalker

UFO Stalker uses Google Maps to show the locations of the latest reports from MUFON (the Mutual UFO Network - for the science fiction scientific study of the UFO phenomenon). The map displays the latest UFO sightings submitted to MUFON.

If you click on a map marker you can read the event details of the reported sighting. It is also possible to search the map by location and date and view the latest reports in list format.

Via: @geoparadigm

Also See

UFO Route Simulator
This UFO route simulator uses the Google Earth browser plug-in to show what a UFO would look like if it was to fly over Copenhagen.

The UFO Route Simulator is in Danish but is very easy to use. Click "Indlæs UFO Data" to load the kml of the route. A pop up appears saying "OK" when the kml has loaded. Next just press the "Start" button" to run the simulator.

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World Development Goals on Google Maps

MDG Maps

MDG Maps is a Google Maps based geovisulisation tool for the Millennium Development Goals. The Millennium Development Goals are indicators which were agreed by leaders from 189 nations to ensure: a world with less poverty, hunger and disease, greater survival prospects for mothers and their infants, better educated children, equal opportunities for women, and a healthier environment.

The map uses data from the Millennium Development Goals dataset at the World Bank Data website. Using the map it is possible to visualise all the datasets on a Google Map.

The map sidebar organises the relevant datasets into the eight main development goals. Selecting any of the relevant targets loads the data onto the Google Map. Each of the datasets includes a time-line so that you can view the data for each year from 1990-2007.

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Twitter Google Map of Who You Follow

Map My Following

From the same developer as MapMyFollowers comes Map My Following. This new application lets you view on a Google Map the locations of people you follow on Twitter.

The screenshot above represents the geographical distribution of people who I follow on my @KeirClarke Twitter account. As you can see I almost exclusively follow people from northern Europe and the USA. If you come from Italy or Spain it appears you have very little chance of being followed by yours truly on Twitter.

I'm also a little surprised by the geographical distribution of the people I follow in the USA. As I mainly follow people in the geo / tech industries I would have expected to see far more markers on the west coast than on the east coast.

As well as showing a map view of people you follow you can view a word-cloud of 'common friend terms'. You can also click on any of your followers and view a Google Map showing the location of who they follow.

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