Map Your Facebook Friends' Photos

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Log-in to Roam7 with your Facebook account and you can instantly view all of your friends' travel photos on a handy Google Map.

If you click on a photo pinned to the map you can then see your selected friend's photos turned into a travel story. You can browse through all the photos posted from their trip and see where each photo was taken on its own Google Map.

Once you have logged into Roam7 you can also start adding your own trips to the map. Users can upload photos from a trip and caption the photos to tell a story about the trip. It is possible to include details about your trip, including where you stayed, how you got around and what you did on your journey.

Explore the UK's Wildest Terrain

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Honda are promoting their CR-V compact SUV car in the UK using Google Maps Street View. In order to encourage potential customers that they could really use a SUV Honda has put together a wonderful collection of Street Views of the UK's wildest terrain.

Do More New allows users to enter a postcode and then shows a beautiful Street View of somewhere nearby that they can visit. Users can choose from a number of terrains, including mountains, snow, forest and urban.

Overlaid on top of the displayed Street View are the current weather conditions and the option to view places to stay overnight.

Hat-tip: Street View Funny

The Canadian Census on Google Maps

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Canadian Census is a great way to explore data from the 2011 Canadian census.The visualisation uses Google Maps to allow the user to browse data from the census related to 'families', 'people' and 'languages'.

One very clever feature of the map is that it allows users to explore the data and different granularities depending on the zoom level of the map. Zoom right out and you can explore the data at province level. As you zoom in on the map you can explore the data at ever smaller administrative levels, right down to the smallest census tracts when you zoom right in on the map.

The UK Census on Google Maps

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This morning the UK's Office for National Statistics released a new map that compares data from the 2011 census with the 2001 census.

The Census Map allows users to view population and age data from the 2011 census and compare the results with the data from the 2001 census. The visualisation uses two Google Maps placed side-by-side. Different variables from the census data can be selected from a drop-down menu.

If the user selects a census tract on either map they can then view a breakdown of the census results in a drop-down table, comparing the 2010 and 2001 census returns.

Other variables will be added to the map as this data is released from the 2011 UK census.

Mapping Barcelona's Immigrant Communities

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Barcelona Televisió has used Google Maps to show where the different immigrant communities live in Barcelona.

Radiografia de la Població Estrangera a Barcelona is a neat Google Map that allows you to explore the immigrant communities in each of the city's neighbourhoods and the concentration of different communities across the city.

Using a drop-down menu in the map sidebar it is possible to select individual countries to show a heat map of where immigrants from the chosen country have settled in Barcelona. Another drop-down menu allows the user to highlight a specific neighbourhood on the map.

Map Your Facebook Friends' Photos

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Log-in to Roam7 with your Facebook account and you can instantly view all of your friends' travel photos on a handy Google Map.

If you click on a photo pinned to the map you can then see your selected friend's photos turned into a travel story. You can browse through all the photos posted from their trip and see where each photo was taken on its own Google Map.

Once you have logged into Roam7 you can also start adding your own trips to the map. Users can upload photos from a trip and caption the photos to tell a story about the trip. It is possible to include details about your trip, including where you stayed, how you got around and what you did on your journey.

Google Indoor Maps Now on the Desktop

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Indoor floor plans can now be viewed on the desktop version of Google Maps. One of the great features of Google Maps on mobile phones has been the ability to view indoor floor plans. Now you can view the same indoor maps on Google Maps for the desktop.

If you want to know which venues have floor plans available on Google Maps you can check out the list here. A great bonus for Google Maps API developers is that you don't have to do anything to get the indoor floor plans to appear in your apps, as they are now part of the base Google Maps map tiles.

Unfortunately at the moment you can only view the main floor of a venue and don't have the ability to change floors as you can on Google Maps for mobile. I'm guessing this feature will be eventually added as it exists in some indoor Street Views, for example in the White House Street View imagery.


In other news the Google Map Maker team has introduced badges for contributors to Google Map Maker. The badges can be won for a number of different contributions, from editing on Map Maker to attending Map Maker events.

You can view a full list of the available badges on the Google Map Maker website.