Secret Rosario on Google Maps

Rosario Invisible is a community driven Google Map that highlights the secret and hidden wonders of the Argentinian city of Rosario. The map allows anyone to share photos, text and videos of the interesting locations, characters and stories of the city in order to provide an insider's guide to the city.

Users of the map can explore the experiences added to the map by selecting from categorised map markers. There are a number of categories of locations added to the map, including 'architecture', 'food' and 'nature'.

The Argentinian Elections on Google Maps

Hacks / Hackers Buenos Aires has used Google Maps and Fusion Tables to create a series of maps to explore the results in the recent Argentinian Presidential and Legislative elections.

Elecciones 2011 examines the results, trends and the socio-demographic context of the 2011 elections in Argentina. The 'Resumen General' map shows the results for each presidential candidate in each electoral ward.

Other maps provide a choropleth view for the number of votes cast for each presidential candidate in each ward and allow you to examine the socio-demographic make up of each electoral ward.

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Buenos Aires in Panorama

Foto Recorridos

Foto Recorridos is a collection of 360 degree panoramic photos of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The site uses Google Maps to show the locations of all the interactive panoramas of the city.

The panoramas contain links that allow you to navigate from one image to another. You can also click on the map markers to load the panorama for that location. As you navigate from one interactive image to another a green line is drawn on the map to connect the panoramas. This feature allows the viewer to tell at a glance which photographs have already been viewed.

Other Panoramic Photograph Maps

• 360Cities.net
• Geirangerfjord and Ålesund From the Air - Norwegian panoramas (fjords from the air)
• Tours from Above - More aerial panoramas from all over the world.
• Virtual Africa
• Panedia
• Singapore VR
• Limoges 360
• 360 Toronto
• Panoramic Earth
  

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Street View Coming for Argentina

Website FayerWayer say that Brazil and Argentina will be the next Latin American countries to get Google Maps Street View after the recent addition of imagery to Mexico.

For those who can't wait for the arrival of Street View FayerWayer have found two websites that already provide interactive 360 degree panoramic imagery in Argentina.

Mapplo

Mapplo have released a preview of a new Street View type service for Buenos Aires. In the preview you can visit the neighborhoods of Palermo, Belgrano, Caballito and other areas such as Recoleta and Almagro. Points of interest covered so far include the River Plate Football Stadium, the Natural History Museum and Centennial Park.

Fotocalle

Fotocalle first featured on Google Maps Mania in November 2009. Fotocalle have a Street View type service for Buenos Aires, Argentina. The site stitches together a number of interactive 360 degree panoramas of the city. The panoramas, just like Street View, include links to adjacent panoramas.

Fotocalle uses Google Maps as a navigation tool. Again like Street View the roads on the map with panoramas are coloured blue and it is possible to drag the map marker to view the panorama at a location.

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