Travel Blogs and Google Maps

Blogabond is a neat application that allows anyone to create their own travel blog with an accompanying Google Map that shows the location of your blog posts and photographs.Blogabond is very easy to use. After you create an account you can create a new travel blog. This simply involves choosing a location, adding your text and uploading any photographs that you want to share.When finished your

Travel Blogs and Google Maps

Blogabond is a neat application that allows anyone to create their own travel blog with an accompanying Google Map that shows the location of your blog posts and photographs.Blogabond is very easy to use. After you create an account you can create a new travel blog. This simply involves choosing a location, adding your text and uploading any photographs that you want to share.When finished your

Create a Google Map in Minutes

Topo.ly is a free Google Maps creation tool that you can use to create a map from data from a spreadsheet, for example from data in an Excel spreadsheet. Using the tool it is very easy to create a Google Map with multiple dataset layers, apply filters to locations, choose different markers and securely share maps within a team.You can register for free with Topo.ly. Then all you need to do is

Create a Google Map in Minutes

Topo.ly is a free Google Maps creation tool that you can use to create a map from data from a spreadsheet, for example from data in an Excel spreadsheet. Using the tool it is very easy to create a Google Map with multiple dataset layers, apply filters to locations, choose different markers and securely share maps within a team.You can register for free with Topo.ly. Then all you need to do is

Map Your Life with Intersect

Intersect is an interesting new website that allows you to map stories by time and place and share them with the world. Once you have mapped your story you can then see how your narrative interacts with other stories - by seeing what else happened at the same time and place.Intersect uses a time-line and Google Maps to show the intersections between your story and the stories of others. Using the

Map Your Life with Intersect

Intersect is an interesting new website that allows you to map stories by time and place and share them with the world. Once you have mapped your story you can then see how your narrative interacts with other stories - by seeing what else happened at the same time and place.Intersect uses a time-line and Google Maps to show the intersections between your story and the stories of others. Using the

Lara Croft - Google Maps Raider

Mike Gleason has created two very nice examples of zoomable images created with the Google Maps API. He has also written a step-by-step tutorial explaining how you can create your very own image maps.To help you create your own map tiles from any image you can use Mike's C# Code - Tiles Generator (a guide on how to install and run the tile generator are included in the tutorial).The two example

Lara Croft - Google Maps Raider

Mike Gleason has created two very nice examples of zoomable images created with the Google Maps API. He has also written a step-by-step tutorial explaining how you can create your very own image maps.To help you create your own map tiles from any image you can use Mike's C# Code - Tiles Generator (a guide on how to install and run the tile generator are included in the tutorial).The two example

Map Channels Adds Fusion Tables Support

Map Channels, the popular Google Maps creation tool, now lets you add data to a map from Google Fusion Tables. In the four years that Map Channels has been running over 20,000 maps have been created by its users. It has proved popular with casual map makers and with major news organisations., including Fox News and CBC.You can create a Google Map with Map Channels using data from a KML, a Google

Map Channels Adds Fusion Tables Support

Map Channels, the popular Google Maps creation tool, now lets you add data to a map from Google Fusion Tables. In the four years that Map Channels has been running over 20,000 maps have been created by its users. It has proved popular with casual map makers and with major news organisations., including Fox News and CBC.You can create a Google Map with Map Channels using data from a KML, a Google

Create Your Own Animated Google Map

Animaps lets you create your own animated maps. You could use the application to create an animated map of a journey you have taken, or to show how a bike / yacht race progressed or even to show the progress of armies in a famous battle.With Animaps you can quickly animate, map markers, polylines or polygons. To get a true idea of what is possible with Animaps you should check out this showcase

Create Your Own Animated Google Map

Animaps lets you create your own animated maps. You could use the application to create an animated map of a journey you have taken, or to show how a bike / yacht race progressed or even to show the progress of armies in a famous battle.With Animaps you can quickly animate, map markers, polylines or polygons. To get a true idea of what is possible with Animaps you should check out this showcase

Custom Satellite View with Google Maps

Cartagen Warping ToolThe Google Maps API v3 has a great feature that lets you take and add your own Custom Street Views to Google Maps. Unfortunately it doesn't have a similar feature to add your own aerial imagery.Step forward then Cartagen Warping Tool.This tool allows you to upload your own aerial imagery and place it on top of Google Maps. The application includes tools that allow you to

Custom Satellite View with Google Maps

Cartagen Warping ToolThe Google Maps API v3 has a great feature that lets you take and add your own Custom Street Views to Google Maps. Unfortunately it doesn't have a similar feature to add your own aerial imagery.Step forward then Cartagen Warping Tool.This tool allows you to upload your own aerial imagery and place it on top of Google Maps. The application includes tools that allow you to

600 Free Google Map Markers

Map Icons CollectionI rarely make a Google Map without using map markers from the Map Icons Collection. The collection has more than 600 free icons which you can use as map markers with the Google Maps API, which means you can nearly always find a marker that fits the purpose and design of your map.The collection has previously been hosted on Google Projects but now has its very own website. With

600 Free Google Map Markers

Map Icons CollectionI rarely make a Google Map without using map markers from the Map Icons Collection. The collection has more than 600 free icons which you can use as map markers with the Google Maps API, which means you can nearly always find a marker that fits the purpose and design of your map.The collection has previously been hosted on Google Projects but now has its very own website. With

CartoView - Google Maps Templates

CartoView - SF SocialCartoView has released the source code for a number of Google Map templates. This Google Map of San Francisco includes Fusion Tables, Twitter, Flickr and You Tube layers. The map lets you view layers that display San Francisco parks, events, Tweets and videos directly on the map.If you want to create a similar map for your own town you can download the source code and adapt

CartoView - Google Maps Templates

CartoView - SF SocialCartoView has released the source code for a number of Google Map templates. This Google Map of San Francisco includes Fusion Tables, Twitter, Flickr and You Tube layers. The map lets you view layers that display San Francisco parks, events, Tweets and videos directly on the map.If you want to create a similar map for your own town you can download the source code and adapt