Tour de France Maps

Ubilabs - Tour de France 2010

Yay! Ubilabs have once again produced a Tour de France live Google Maps mashup. This year the map even has a little extra styling thanks to Google Maps API v3 Styled Map options.

At the moment you can use the map to view the routes of all the tour's stages. Once the race is under way you will also be able to see real-time data from selected teams.

This year Ubilabs have also focused on making the map compatible with mobile phones. So you will be pleased to hear that the map works with the iPhone, Android phones and the iPad.

Cycling News Tour de France Map

Cycling News have also produced a Google Map showing the routes of each stage of the Tour De France.

If you click on any of the mapped stages you will find a link to Cycling News' preview of the stage.

Via: Mapperz

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Tour de France Google Maps Challenge

My Tracks Tour

The Tour de France starts tomorrow and if you are up for the challenge you can build your own Google Maps Mashup showing the real-time location of all 9 riders in the HTC/Columbia Professional Cycling team.

HTC/Columbia Professional Cycling team, HTC and SRM, have collaborated with Google to make available an API that will enable developers to build web applications that can display the location of all 9 riders on a Google Map along with their telemetry (power, heart rate, cadence, speed).

HTC has supplied the team with phones that read ANT+ wireless sensors. The phones running the Android App called My Tracks will read this data and transmit it to Google's Servers. Google's servers will then push out the data via a publicly available read only API.

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Street View Comes Indoors

Kerken Kijken met Street View

This Dutch website is the first example I've seen of someone making use of the new 'linksControl' in v3 of the Google Maps API. The linksControl lets map developers add or take away the arrow links in Street View. Kerken Kijken use the arrow links to create seamless links to their own panoramic images.

Kerken Kijken have a number of 360 degree panoramic images of the interiors of churches in Utrecht. They have created this Google Maps mashup to show the location of the panoramas and to integrate them with Street View.

The overall effect is very impressive. As you can see from the sceenshot below the added arrow links to Kerken Kijken's own panoramas are indistinguishable from the links to the adjacent Street Views.



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Learn About Your Flight with Google Maps

Hidden Journeys

Wouldn't it be great if, before taking a plane flight, you could look up the flight path and learn about all the places you will fly over on your journey? Well if you are travelling from London to Johannesburg, London to Delhi or London to Vancouver you now can.

Hidden Journeys, a project of the Royal Geographical Society, aims to enable air travellers to interact and engage with the parts of the world that can be seen from the air whilst on a plane journey. So far only three plane journeys have been mapped but more are on the way.

The website's aim is "to create a knowledgeable travelling population who can make the most of the aerial perspective whilst flying to better understand the world; to understand the depth and richness of the changing relationship between humans and their natural and built environment; and how the physical environment they can see from the air has changed, and continues to change over time."

Hidden Journeys uses Google Maps to show the flight path of the journey and to show the interesting things that can be seen from the plane on your journey. If you click on any of the map markers you will be shown detailed information and photographs of the selected location.

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Checking Water Quality with Google Maps

Water Atlas

This Water Atlas Google Map from the Hillsborough County and City of Tampa allows citizens to check water quality, hydrology, rainfall and weather data from the county's water stations.

The green map markers indicate stations with current data (anywhere from the last 60 seconds to the last 24 hours). The yellow markers show inactive stations (maybe because of maintenance or technical problems).

Depending on the type of water station selected you can view, daily rainfall, precipitation, water flow, elevation, temperature, velocity and conductance. Each information window also includes a link to view graphs of the stations recorded data for the last 24 hours, week and month.

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Spanish Real Estate on Google Maps

Zangoa

Spanish website Zangoa uses Google Maps as the main portal to holiday rental properties in Spain.

From the main map page you can select to view rental properties on the map by location, price and type of property. The returned map markers all contain links to the main page on the selected property.

On the property dedicated pages you can also choose to view another Google Map of the property, this time with local points of interest displayed on the map as well. The points of interest include local restaurants and sporting and cultural activities.


Other Spanish Real Estate Maps

• Fotocasa.es
• Locamio
• Nestoria

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EEC Funding on a Google Map

Europa Om De Hoek

Europa Om De Hoek is a Google Map showing the location of European Union funded projects in the Netherlands.

The map displays three categories of marker, City & Surroundings, People & Society and Knowledge and Innovation. If you pan or zoom the map the markers are updated automatically to reflect your current view.

You can also select to view projects by subject, by the amount of money invested, by location and by EU agency.

Also See

Sandbag Emissions Map - explore how the emissions trading system is operating in the European Union.

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