Driving Directions with Coupons

Vyaggio is a great application for finding coupon deals on your European excursions.

Vyaggio allows users to get driving directions with suggested rest stops along the route. Vyaggio even shows you the stops with great deals and coupons, so not only do you get directions you get great deals on your road trip.

If you don't want driving directions that's fine as well. You can also use Vyaggio to find restaurants, shops, hotels and cafes offering coupon deals in European towns. The coupons can be searched by location and filtered by category.

Finding Local Deals with Google Maps

The Dealmix is a really nicely realised daily deal website. The daily deals market is very crowded at the moment, a market that is dominated by some big name players, like Groupon and Google.

The Dealmix, however, aggregates deal offers from lots of the daily deal sites and lets you search for your nearest offers via a handy Google Map. Using the map you can find the deals nearest to your current location.

Using the map sidebar you can also select the category of deal you are interested in. So, for example, if you fancy eating out, you can select 'Food and Drink' and find all the nearby restaurants that currently have a deal on offer.

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Google Aquires Dealmap

Dealmap's biggest deal of today was selling itself to Google.

Websites offering daily deals and coupons have been one of the biggest trends in the location sector for a couple of years now. Google has been pretty keen to get into this market, which has so far been dominated by Groupon.

However Google has, until now, been painfully slow in rolling out its own Google Offers site. Google Offers launched in April promising daily offers - but the deals were initially only available in Portland, Oregon. Since then Google have rolled out the service to other areas but it is still limited to New York, San Francisco, Oakland and Portland.

By acquiring Deal Map Google can now access Dealmap's deal exchange distribution network and presumably hopes to tap into Dealmap's over 2 million users.

Google is not the only big player to have had an eye on Dealmap. Back in March Dealmap signed a deal with Bing to display deals on the homepage of m.bing.com.

For now Dealmap says it will continue as a distinct service. However my guess is that at some point in the future Dealmap and Google Offers will morph into one product (probably called Google Offers).

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Planes, Trams & Automobiles

NextBus's real-time transit map of San Francisco lets you view the live position of the city's historic cable cars.

You can select to view any of the cable car lines in San Francisco and view the cable cars moving on a Google Map in real-time. Each of the cable cars is represented by it's own map marker. Each marker displays the unique livery of the selected cable car.

From the map sidebar you can select which routes you wish to view. You can also click on individual stops on the map to view real-time arrival predictions for that stop.

NextBus




Mibazaar has created a Google Map that allows you to view Twitter messages posted from a number of U.S. and international airports.

Using the map you can view real-time messages from Twitter users as they land or arrive at the selected airports. The U.S. airports include Chicago, Atlanta, New York (JFK), San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston and Detroit. You can also view Tweets from London Heathrow, Amsterdam and Cairo.

Airport Tweets Mapped



In the UK the Royal Automobile Club is using Google Maps to show the range of offers and discounts available to its members. The offers include discounts on car products and services, on hotel stays and at restaurants.

To find discounts and deals near a location simply enter a postcode. You can also refine the deals and offers shown on the map using the map key.

RAC Members Offers

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French Shopping Deals on Google Maps

This year there has been a spurt of English language websites using Google Maps to show you nearby shops and restaurants offering daily deals and coupons. Coupon sites are also proving very popular in France.

Ohmydeal

Ohmydeals is a French website for daily deals and coupons. Ohmydeals uses Google Map to allow users to find their nearest deals.

It is possible to search the map by location and by category of deal. The categories include 'restaurants and bars', health and beauty', 'sport' and 'travel'. As well as searching for deals by Google Map it is possible to receive deals via Twitter, Facebook and mobile phone.

Plyce

Plyce is another French website that delivers daily deals and coupons. Again Plyce lets you search for the latest deals by location and by category.

If you share your location with Plyce you can then search for the nearest deals in a number of categories, including 'restaurants', 'technology', 'fashion' and many more. Once you select your location and category the deals are displayed in list form. When you select a deal Plyce shows you the location of the selected shop / restaurant on a Google Map.

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Groupon Coupons on Google Maps

Groupon Now

Groupon has finally turned on location and has become a lot more useful in the process. Groupon Now lets you view the nearest deals to your location on a Google Map. It is available both from your desktop and from your mobile device.

Actually Groupon Now is a bit of a misnomer. It should more accurately be called Groupon Later because, for now, it is only available in Chicago. If you are lucky enough to live in the Windy City then you can enter your address and search for deals by category.

The results of your search are displayed on a Google Map and each deal comes with a timer informing you just how long you have left to redeem your deal. The application works really well and, once a few more cities are added, should help to cement Groupon's position as the leading deal-of-the-day provider.

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Coupons on Google Maps

Daily deal websites are very hot right now. Recently Google failed in its attempts to buy Groupon. However Bing has successfully launched a big partnership with long Google Maps Mania favourite Dealmap.



Dealmap uses Google Maps to display all the best local deals, coupons and special offers. You can search the map by location and refine the results by a number of categories, including restaurants, shopping, hotels etc.

Bing's partnership with Dealmap means that you will now see deals on the homepage of m.bing.com. Using the DealMap database you will see daily deals and offers geared towards your location.

Dealmap has certainly been very successful. ProgrammableWeb report that Dealmap currently has "85 million monthly visitors, 36 commercial distribution partners ... and more than 280 developers using its API." It also says that "more than 11 million API queries per day (are) being handled by the DealExchange platform."

Dealmap is not the only daily deal website to be using Google Maps. 8coupons also uses Google Maps to help you find all the deals from your neighborhood restaurants, bars, salons, and stores.



Using 8coupons you can search for deals by location and by type of deal. Like Dealmap, 8coupons also provides a developer API that allows other map developers to tap into its coupon and deals database.

MetroSeeq also helps you visually locate coupons gift certificates, deals, promotions and discounts on a Google Map. The site works in every city in the U.S.. MetroSeeq includes an interesting crowdsoucing feature that allows users to add deals.

Couponmap also lets you search over 370,000 coupons by city, state or zipcode on a Google Map.

The Couponmap widget also allows you to add a deals map to your own website by cutting and pasting a short piece of code.

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