Crazy and/or Unique Local Content Maps for Your Blog
Google Maps Mania is a mashup-of mash-ups. The site collects and displays map mash-ups created with the Google map API. There are maps of just about anything; historical spots, celebrities, beer spots, milk farms. You name it, it’s probably there. Embedding some unique or useful maps into your blog provides engaging content for your readers.
You can also use Google Maps to create your own maps of your local community, the sky is the limit for content.
Many of the maps are very local specific. Here a are a few of the more interesting ones:
- New York City Live Music Map
- New Orleans Murder Map
- DC’s Snow Plow Response to Snowmaggedon
- Black Collar Crime (committed by someone affiliated with a religious institution)
- Historical San Francisco
- Chicago Wine Shops
- Celebrity Sightings in Toronto
- Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (one of my favorite songs, song inlcuded)
- Phoenix Food Map
- Coral Gables Coffee and Cupcakes (this one is by me)
Bonus: Lord of the Rings Map (for geeks like me)
I bet with a little searching, you will find more than one map for your blog readers. If you create maps, submit them to GoogleMapsMania for added exposure.
Have a favorite Google Map? Post it in the comments below….
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This article published on Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 at 7:14 am | Contact the editor
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Janie has been in the development, construction and real estate industries for over 20 years. She began her career in commerical construction and has slowly worked into all of the related industries and added residential properties to her resume 7 years ago. She is currently the co-owner of sister companies, Papillon Real Estate and Papillon ReDevelopment (a construction and project management firm). Janie blogs for The Coral Gables Story. In her “free” time, she is a graduate student of Atlantic History with a focus on the history of business and technology. She is a lover of geo-anything. She loves the story.
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- AgentGenius:
#agnow That was fun! http://bit.ly/dCyqai
- AgentGenius:
#agnow isn't crazy how you can become absorbed in some things that don't affect your life at the current moment at … http://bit.ly/dCyqai
- AgentGenius:
#agnow faster than a speeding bullet http://bit.ly/dCyqai
- AgentGenius:
#agnow glad you liked it http://bit.ly/dCyqai
- AgentGenius:
#agnow goth girl cemetery map! you are crazy indeed Maureen! but that is the fun of the maps, really wacky stuff! http://bit.ly/dCyqai
- Carole Bonds:
@agentgenius Crazy and/or Unique Local Content Maps for Your Blog http://bit.ly/8XYoad
- AgentGenius:
#agnow I've made several maps. I like this one that outlines the sub-neighborhoods of East Nashville – one of the a… http://bit.ly/dCyqai
- AgentGenius:
#agnow Nice! http://bit.ly/dCyqai
- Jacek Rolnik:
crzy cool map technology at work: http://bit.ly/aLF6QX
- Jacek Rolnik:
crazy wacky map technology at work: http://bit.ly/aLF6QX
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wow, I just wasted about 45 mintues tracking random flights and boats!
isn’t crazy how you can become absorbed in some things that don’t affect your life at the current moment at all. but it is all so interesting!
That’s is really cool, its amazing how technology is moving so fast. Fast then the tanker I was tracking.
faster than a speeding bullet
That was fun!
glad you liked it
I’ve made several maps. I like this one that outlines the sub-neighborhoods of East Nashville – one of the areas I work:
maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=103432177008699463961.00046bc9da77cddad1f27&z=13
Nice!
fun. I just looked at the beer belly map.
I’d found a local goth girls cemetery map on Google last summer and thought that was interesting.
goth girl cemetery map! you are crazy indeed Maureen! but that is the fun of the maps, really wacky stuff!
I need a full time assistant just for this type of work! The technology is amazing yet time-consuming!