Burp's mission is to help you find the best restaurants for specific types of dish.
Currently Burp has four Google Maps, two maps showing the restaurants serving the best burgers in the San Francisco Bay and Los Angeles areas and two maps showing the restaurants serving the best Ramen in the same two areas.
After clicking on a restaurant map marker you can click through to read other users' reviews of the restaurant, the restaurant's Yelp rating, the number of Facebook 'likes' and the number of foursquare check-ins.
Monuments: Diversity, Democracy and Freedom The City Project has created a Google Map to help showcase Los Angeles' diversity. The map shows the locations of monuments in the city that celebrate diversity, democracy and freedom.
Each official monument shown on the map is an example of a site that demonstrates historic significance because it reflects or exemplifies the diversity of Los Angeles. Monuments have been chosen that are a testament to the important contributions of people of color, women, and workers or because they stimulate and promote a greater understanding of diversity, democracy, and freedom.
You can search the map by location or you can use the links in the map sidebar to zoom directly to a specific monument. The map has missed a trick by not adding an option to view the monuments in Street View, although a photograph and description is provided for each monument on the map.
The Los Angeles Times is becoming a prolific user of Google Maps. Here are just some examples of how the paper has used the Google Maps API to help illustrate news stories and give their readers access to local data.
Mapping L.A.'s Neighborhoods The LA Times’ neighborhood map of Los Angeles County is a Google Maps interface to individual maps and statistics for 158 cities and unincorporated places and 114 neighborhoods within the city of Los Angeles.
The map allows readers to click on one of the highlighted regions on the map and then select an individual neighborhood. Once you have selected a neighborhood you can view information about schools, income, demographics and news from the area.
LA Magnet Test Scores A Google Map created to compare the test scores of Los Angeles' magnet schools with other magnet schools and to their host schools.
L.A. Farmers Markets A Google Map guide to Southern California farmers markets. It is possible to browse the markets by location and by the day of the week.
Where the Westside Starts The Westside has no official defined border. Therefore the LA Times decided to ask its readers how they define the Westside.
The Times then produced two Google Maps; one to show The Times' definition of the Westside's geographical boundary and one to show the readers' ideas.
Ideum create technology-enhanced visitor experiences for museums and other public settings. They have just created a multitouch exhibit for the California Science Center.
The exhibit consists of an interactive multitouch enabled Google Map with KML overlays allowing visitors to pan and zoom around the L.A. Basin while learning about the weather patterns, wind currents, geologic make-up, and vegetative patterns that have shaped the landscape of southern California.
Thematic overlays illustrate on the map phenomenon such as fire risk, water supply, Santa Ana wind patterns and fault lines. Geo-tagged photo and video content, managed by Flickr, is displayed across the map. Visitors can explore this content through the use of intuitive gestures, building the basin's story through discovery. Flipping the images over reveals embedded metadata to assist the exhibit narrative.
The exhibit uses Ideum's multitouch and multiuser table platform, which allows several visitors to explore content simultaneously. Using multitouch gestures, users can scale, zoom, and pass virtual objects around the table.
Los Angeles Storm Map According to the California Geological Society more than 100 Californians have been killed by debris flows during the past 25 years. Slopes left denuded by wildfires in California are especially susceptible to "mudslides" during and immediately after major rainstorms.
Just such a rainstorm yesterday caused a mudslide in the La Cañada Flintridge area. The Los Angeles Times have created two Google Maps in response to the latest mudslides. The second of the two maps on the LA Times website shows the areas considered by the U.S. Geological Survey to be most at risk of mudslides.
