Google Maps Guide to Beautiful Stockholm

Google Places' business photo shoots allows businesses to request an indoor Street View shoot of their premises. Once the imagery is captured and added to Google Places it allows potential customers to take a virtual tour of the business using the Google Maps Street View technology.

If Google are looking to see how they can best implement business Street Views with Google Maps they could do worse than check out CityFinder Stockholm. CityFinder is a Google Map of Stockholm's places of interest and attractions such as hotels, cafes, museums, and much much more.

The map includes more than 1000 360 degree panoramic virtual tours of cafes, restaurants, malls, parks, gyms, beaches, museums and nightclubs in the city. The map provides a great guide to the city and an invaluable aide to visitors.

If you are looking for a hotel in Stockholm you can use CityFinder to actually view hotel rooms before you book. Or if you are heading out for a meal then you can check out the ambience of restaurants before booking a table.

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Swedish Travel Tips with Google Map

ReseEkonomen

This Swedish language Google Map provides advice and tips about the favourite tourist destinations of the Swedish around the world.

As well as providing travel tips from Mattias Varén the map also shows tips sent in by users. The yellow markers on the map indicate tips provided by Mattias and the green markers are those sent in by users of the map.

It is possible to filter the travel tips shown on the map by country and by type of holiday destination. The categories include, Family Travel, Weekend, Backpacking, Cruises and Adventure.

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More Sweden on Google Maps

Mere Sverige

Mere Sverige (More Sweden) is a tourism promotion site for Sweden aimed at the Danish market. The site is therefore in Danish. More Sweden uses Google Maps to provide Danish visitors to Sweden with all the accommodation and sightseeing information that they will need.

The map includes some very nice features. In particular the numbered marker clustering solution is well thought out. Numbered markers show the number of points of information at a location. If you mouse-over the marker a small information window opens with preview thumbnails of the individual locations. If you click on the marker the map zooms in so that you can view the individual markers.

Markers on the map are divided into the categories of 'experiences, 'accommodation' and 'transport' and each of these categories is further subdivided. For example 'accommodation' contains sub-categories of hotels, B&B's etc.

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AED's on Google Maps

Hjartstartarregistret

Here is a great idea from Sweden - a Google Map showing the location of automated external defibrillators in the country. If someone suffers a cardiac arrest the sooner they have access to an AED the greater the chance they have of surviving. Therefore knowing where the nearest defibrillator is kept is of vital importance.

The map allows anyone to enter a Swedish address and view the location of all the nearest defibrillators. So, for example, Swedish citizens can access the map to find where the nearest defibrillators are to their place of work.

If you click on any of the map markers the full address is given, as is the exact place where the defibrillator is stored, e.g. reception. Companies or organisations that have a defibrillator that isn't already listed can register its location by completing a short form.

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A Real-Time Bus Map for Malmö

Kollektivt.se

Kollektivt.se is a Google Map showing the real-time location of buses in Malmö, Sweden. The map and an API were developed in just 24 hours at the Codemocracy open data hackathon in Sweden.

Using the map it is possible to select any or all of the city's bus routes and to view the locations of all the city's buses in real-time animated on the map.

Kollectivt.se have also created an API that allows third parties to retrieve the location data of buses in central Malmö.

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Wage Negotiations with Google Maps

Mitt Mått

During the next year a new period of negotiations for a collective wage agreement will take place in Sweden. This Google Map from Almega, a Swedish employers' organisation is designed to raise the debate about wages and how people think work should be valued.

Anybody can share their opinions and experiences of wage negotiations with the website and they will appear on the map. Users can also take a simple test which will show which of four criteria – experience, development, engagement or achievement – is valued the most. Users can also share stories about the wage negotiation process.

Each test result and story is added as a marker on the map depending on where the user lives. There is also the possibility of commenting on other user's test results or stories.

The map is the creation of StoryLabs and Sthlm Connection. Sthlm Connection are writing a series of posts on how they created the map. There are three tutorials, the first of which is Creative Google Maps I: Taking control of the location.

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Visit Sweden Adds Street View

Visit Sweden

Visit Sweden, Sweden's official website for tourism and travel information, has been using Google Maps for many years to help visitors to the country discover the many interesting places to visit. This week's release of Street View imagery for the country means that Visit Sweden can now also provide Street View imagery on their maps.

Visit Sweden has created Google Maps for each of Sweden's main regions. The maps each have a number of layers that can be viewed. The layers include Culture, Family vacation, Nature experiences, Outdoor activities, Gastronomy, Coastline experiences, Wellness, Design and Airports.

Now, when a point of interest has a Street View image available, a 'Street View' button appears in the top right of the information window. Clicking on the button will display the Street View inside the information window.

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Street View Comes to Sweden and Denmark

Thanks to a heads up from Street View Gallery (who heard a rumour Street View was to be released tomorrow in Sweden) I have just noticed that Street View imagery is already live in Sweden and Denmark.

As well as Sweden and Denmark there seems to be more Street View imagery added to countries already covered. For example in the UK it seems that many National Trust properties now have Street View. Check out Stowe House, Nymans Gardens, Glendurgan Garden, Castle Drogo and Corfe Castle.


Corfe Castle


Storkyrkan, Stockholm


Nyhavn, Denmark


Frederiks Kirke, Copenhagen


Københavns Kommune


Oresund Bridge


Riddarhuset, Stockholm


Turning Torso, Malmo

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