Search Hotels On Map

If you are a business man or travel a lot, book a hotel is your common work. We have some very good travel search sites, they let you book hotel quickly. But, you don't know where that hotel you booked is. Hotel Maps is different, it lets you search hotels on Google Maps, so you can check location. You can book hotel by a few clicks, but search engine seems unstable, some hotel prices are not correctly.

Check Online Media Around The World On Map With Hubii

Hubii is a website that mashes up web media resource and Google Maps, it lets you check internet media around the world on map. Just use your mouse click on the map, find what media resource on that area, it also lists highlight on left side. Click one, it will display that website, you can read detail of article without leave this site.

Youspots, Mark Hot Sport Exercise Spots On Map

If you are a sport activator you should read this article.

YouSpots is a new website that mash up Google Maps and an online community, like a platform for everybody they are exercisers, such as surfing, skiing, hiking. You can mark spots on map, and make friends, exchange opinions, post photos and videos. For other users, they can browse some exciting spots on the world map, find exciting places.

Search, Check Historic Photos On Map

Historypin is a website that lets users search and look historic photos in this world. It mashes up Google Maps and historic photos. You can search photos by years. It also offers some other functions, like Collections, Tours, and Community. It worth to take a look.

Make Your Tour Plan In Europe With Tripomatic

Tripomatic is a website that helps you make trip plan with Google Maps, photos, hotel information, and tour guide. Now, it only focuses on European countries, so if you want to get experienced in Europe, you should take a look this website, even just browse photos, cities information, it worth to a try before you start.

Bing Maps Launches Streetside

I am a big fan of Google, I use Google stuff all the time, like Gmail, Google Search, Google Maps. I know we have some other choices, like Microsoft's products, Yahoo Mail, so I like to try them, and compare to each other. Recently, Bing Maps launches a new feature: Streetside. It is similar with Google Street View, but still has some differences, like 360 degree view. Unfortunately, Streetside only available few major cities in US and UK, but it worth to try.

Street View In Some Major Cities With RobotFlaneur

I always think Google is a good company, it develops so many useful web services, even something can be used in real life, like Google Earth, Google Maps. I have talked about some web developers use Google Street View to make new websites, Robot Flaneur is one of them.

Robot Flaneur powered by Google Maps. The most interesting point is it puts Street View with multiple major cities around the world in one place. Just one click, you can check Street View in London, New York, Paris, Tokyo, Berlin ...

A Very Good Mash Up Site With Panoramic Photo And Google Maps

Viewat.org is an interesting website that lets you to see some very beautiful scenes around world in panoramic photos with Google Maps or Google Earth. Unlike regular photo, panoramic photo gives out a full width of viewer with very high quality. Google Maps is a good tool to browse whole world, many websites use it to mash up their web services, much easier than to use text instruction. So, Viewat.org gives out an easy way to browse beautiful panoramic photos on this world, just click a spot that marked on Google Maps, it will display a panoramic photo, even you can enlarge photo to see detail. If you are a photographer, you can upload your panoramic photo to Viewat.org after you register an account. Pretty cool!

Vidmap, Two Ways Display On Same Location

Vidmap is a special website that uses map and video to show you on same location. The interesting point is we can compare to map and video on same places. It looks very cool. You can take a look some Vidmaps, if you like you can register an account, make your own Vidmaps (sounds like your own Street Viewer). How can you make it? Only a few steps:

1. Click on the "New Vidmap" button to upload a video or to import an existing video from Youtube.
2. Once uploaded, click your video in the "My Vidmaps" menu and use the editor to add the video positions to the map.
3. In that same editor add synchronisation points to sync video time and position on the map where necessary.
4. Share your Vidmap with other people by using the embed code!

It seems simple, but I did not try. If you like you can do it.

Google Maps, Street View, Live Chat Make A Good Street Guide

Simple Guide Tool is a mash up web tool that helps you do street guide with Google Maps, Street View and live video chat. They are working together, synchronized together.

This web service is very good for cellphone users who try to guide friends walking on the street in different places. The interface has two frames, one is Street View, another one is Google Maps. On the bottom you can create a chat room, you can use microphone and webcam talk to your friends if they join it. Pretty cool, is it?

Explore The World With Video On A Map

VMAP is a video site that based on Google Maps. What should we do with it? A simple sentence, explore the world with video on a map. Unlike a regular video site, VMAP lets you search and watch videos around the world on a map. Of course, all video are related local events, they come from other video sites like Youtube, Vimeo. I personal thought, it is good to search local videos, but not enough.

Use Google StreetView To See Graffiti

Google StreetView is very popular, like virtual travel you can do that with it. Some websites use Google StreetView make some cool servers. I don't know if you like graffiti, Street Art View takes you to see street graffiti around the world by Google StreetView.

You can search graffiti by search bar, or just direct click "Latest addition" and "Random add" to take a look. You can also click some spots on map, it will display StreetView on local street where has graffiti. If you are interested about this subject you should take a look.

Create Your Map Easily With Tixik

Tixik is a web service that offers a useful tool helps you make a customized map for you to embed map on your site. It uses Google Maps, the map generator gives you very simple way to create map. You just fill out some basic information, like name, address, size, map type, and other. After that, it will give you a code to paste on website. I think it is cool.

Three Web Services That Based On Map

Emergency and Disaster Map - it displays current emergency and disaster events around the world.

World Network Map - it lets you check internet network information around the world.

Newspaper Map - it based on Google Maps, and helps you to search newspaper sites around the world.

Put Your Photo On Map With Locr

We have lots of image hosting services that let user store image files, Locr seems different, it is not only offers web space to share your image files with other people, also lets users make photo to mark on Google Maps. It is a geotagging(brand new word) photo community, you can upload your photo, mark it on map. If your cellphone with camera that integrated GPS, you can upload your photo to Locr, anywhere in this world your photos always shared with friends.

Within the community, users can share, rate and comment on public photos. If you don't want to share it you can set up private. Even you do not have any photo you still can browse map, check out thousands photos that came around the world. Very interesting.

Easy Shorten Long Map URL With Map.to

Many people like Google Maps, I like to use it before I go somewhere, sometimes I think it is better than GPS in someways. I use Google Maps a lot, but it is hard to send an address on map to friends because it has a very long URL. Yes, we can use some URL shorteners, like Bit.ly, Tinyurl, even Google Shortener. Today, I would like to introduce another one that is special fit Map address.

Map.to is a URL shortenr that special for address for map. It is easy to do, just type an address in to search bar, click "submit" button. After it displays your address on a map, you can choose a custom alias after map.to/.... Click "create your map link" button, it will create a shortened URL, it is easy to embed to somewhere.

Webcam Around The World

Geocam.tv is a webcam website that uses Google Maps to display live webcam around the world. Up to now, it collects total 1013 cams. I think it is good for people who want to know local weather, condition, or environment.

Check Tweets Traffic In Real Time By A Map

A World Of Tweets is an interesting website that lets you check how many tweets posted around the world in real time that displayed by a map. You can switch display type between Heatmap and Smoky Clouds, or Map View and Satellite View, even you can use 3D mode, you have to wear 3D glass.

Pull down page, you can check statistics, very interesting.

Listen Background Sounds From Different Cities

Soundcitis is an interesting website that collects sounds from different cities around the world. From Amsterdam to Tokyo, New York to Shanghai, and more. Different sounds like traffic noise, human voice, environment noise, animal noise, background sound. It uses Google Maps to display where that sound comes from. After you click one sign, you can listen this sound. Interesting!

Random Street View Around The World

Map Crunch is a cool site that based on Google Maps, but it is not a map site, just displays Street View from Google. You can choose some countries that you want to see, it lets you to play random play.