Find Live Music Events with Google Maps

Music by Map helps music lovers discover upcoming gigs by location. The site uses Google Maps to show nearby venues with upcoming events.

The map uses a color-coded map marker system to indicate when gigs are taking place. A green marker shows an event happening today, orange markers show events happening this week and the blue markers indicate events coming up later.

The events shown are powered by songkick.com. If you select an event from the map you can click through to read the full details about the concert on the songkick website.

World Tour Schedules on Google Maps

Artist / DJ Richie Hawtin has created a gorgeous looking Google Map for his current world tour. Custom map tiles have been used to give the map a distinct design. The dot-matix look of the design is continued in the custom made map markers and information windows.

Dates on the tour are displayed on the map and a slide-out sidebar shows the dates in list form.

The 'One City' world tour continues until December.

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Live Symphonic Balloon Tracking

London has today entered into the fantasy world of steampunk. In what seems like an episode from 2D Goggles a number of hot air balloons have been flying over London blasting out music to the populace below.

Don't worry if you don't live in London or if you have missed any of the balloons' flights as you can replay it all on a handy Google Maps based application.

The map shows each of the hot air balloons and their flight track. If you click on the map marker of any of the hot air balloons you can then listen to the music that was played during the flight.

Sky Orchestra

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Another Amazing HTML5 Music Video

Soul Mirror

This HTML5 video from Japanese band Soul River integrates with your Twitter and Facebook accounts and with your webcam to create a truly wild and amazing web musical video.

The video was obviously inspired by The Wilderness Downtown's experimental HTML5 video. Like the Wilderness Downtown video Soul River makes use of numerous browser windows and your geographical location.

Using your browser's geolocation detection capabilities the video displays a Google Map of your location. The Soul River singer is then shown walking across the map. There is a lot more amazing stuff in the full video but really you have to watch it yourself.

To watch the video you will need a browser that supports HTML5. Use Chrome if you have it.

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Google Maps Goes Above & Beyond

Trance Around the World with Above & Beyond

Above & Beyond's weekly 'Trance Around The World' radio show is syndicated on over 237 FM radio stations worldwide with a total estimated audience of 30 million. With such a wide range appeal it only seems natural to allow trance fans around the world to share their thoughts with this animated Google Map.

The map animates through the latest Twitter messages with the hashtags #tatw or #tatw350. The map also shows the locations of all of radio stations around the world that broadcast the show and the locations of upcoming trance events.

The map is also doing a very good job in promoting the TATW 350 event at the LA Palladium this Friday. There will be a seven hour broadcast of the event through local radio stations, Sirius XM and online via DI.FM and TATW350.com.

Via: All things spatial

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Finding Concerts with Google Maps

Transmeet.Tv Music Map

Transmeet.Tv is a Google Maps application for finding concerts and festivals. At the moment the site seems most active in Croatia, Slovenia and Serbia, although events are also listed in other countries.

Upcoming musical events are displayed on the map using categorised map markers. The lettered map markers help identify the musical genre of each listed concert.

When you click on a map marker the map disappears behind a lightbox type window that displays information about the event and also gives you access to a whole host of rich media. It is possible to listen to music by the featured artists, browse photographs, view videos from YouTube and post about the event to Facebook and Twitter.

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Tom Petty Tours Google Maps

Tom Petty Tour Map

Tom Petty is using the Google Maps API to show the locations of gigs on his latest tour. Pre-sales for the tour start on Wednesday, March 3rd.

Each of the tour dates are shown the map with red map markers. If you click on a marker an information window opens with the address of the venue. The information window includes a 'get directions' option so you can get driving directions to the venue.

You can even listen to a Tom Petty track as you browse the map.

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