The Google Maps of the Week

The Google Maps of the Week

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The New York Times' <a href="

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 is a handy reader's guide to biking in the Big Apple. The map includes
readers' tips on good and bad biking locations and a number of popular
cycling routes, care of Strava users.



I like the use of the red and green markers on this map to indicate where positive and negative comments have been made. I also like how some of the small information windows are permanently open to highlight a section of the comments across New York.



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Pier Paolo Pasolini was an extraordinary Italian poet, writer and
director. La Cinémathèque Française in Paris has developed a Google Map
to explore Pasolini's life in Rome. The map is a "journey to the heart
of what constituted and defined him: friendship, literature, politics,
love, sex, cinema."



The <a href="

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interspersed with commentary, photos and clips from the artist's films.
The map also includes a number of entries by Žilda, a street artist from
 Rennes (France), whose collages summon the phantoms of Pasolini at the
corner of Roman alleyways.



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I'm always a sucker for these clever Google Maps based marketing campaigns. What is very clever about this campaign from Burberry is that the use of Google's Geo API's is so subtle that most users probably won't even be aware of the mapping technologies driving the application.



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of a (sealed with a loving kiss) message from your lips to the home of your loved one. The app presents skylines of famous locations around the world which
 have been captured from the 3d buildings used in Google Earth.



The
Google Geocoding API and the Google Places API are used by the app to
identify locations and important landmarks on the journey. Google Maps
Street View is also used to show the reflections of famous landmarks in
puddles in the city street scenes used in the app.&nbsp;
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		Quote:			Posted by xavier
	I honestly don't have a clue as to what this is all about?

That's what you get when you set general parameters like "get all articles that mention 'Treasure', 'Google Maps', 'Shipwreck'" and set an automated program to retrieve the results.....sort of like when you google a term like "glory hole" thinking you are looking for a rich deposit of gold or diamonds.   


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		Quote:			Posted by xavier
	Yes I get your point, but if it was interesting that would still be OK but this is total rubbish.

   I don't know, if I lived in New York City, I'd find the first map very useful.
   As for the second two on Pasolini, imagine if you will that some one had documented the travels of your favorite legendary hider of treasure hoards in such a manner----say someone had a fixation on Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and went around taking pictures of all the places the members of the Wild Bunch was known to have been and linked them to a map and then added a few before and after photos or an entry from on old diary or newsletter.   Even if the guy who put the map together didn't know about the loot Butch and Sundance supposedly buried trying to stay ahead of the posses, you might pick up some key pieces of information --- or have a couple of pieces of the puzzle fall into place for you.

   As for the last link......it's pure narcissitic fluff.

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