UK Google Maps Mashups Round-Up

The Bath Schools MapThe Bath Schools Map is designed to help parents choosing schools in Bath, in the UK, by displaying local schools and admissions and performance data on Google Maps.In Bath parents are only allowed to indicate 3 schools as a preference for their children. Using the map it is possible to find the nearest ten schools and compare their academic mini-league tables on a range of

A Google Map of School Immunizations

The Chicago Tribune has analysed state data for clusters of children without the required vaccinations at public and private schools in Illinois. These clusters seriously raise the chances of school-based outbreaks of serious preventable diseases like measles and whooping cough. To accompany the analysis the Chicago Tribune has created a Google Map that lets you search for individual schools and

Mapping Diabetes on Google Maps

TuAnalyze is an app for recording and sharing measures of diabetes. The app is jointly developed by Children's Hospital Boston and TuDiabetes.org.TuAnalyze uses Google Maps to map haemoglobin A1c, which is an indirect measure of diabetes management. The map shows user recordings of A1c in each U.S. state and in a number of other countries. Each state and country is shaded to reflect the average

Disease Mapping with the Google Maps API

The mapping of diseases has a long and distinguished history.Perhaps the most famous disease map is the spot map created by John Snow in 1854. Snow created his map to plot an outbreak of cholera in Soho, London. The map helped to prove that the Soho outbreak of the disease was caused by water that came from one pump in Broad Street.The dominant theory at the time was that cholera was caused by "

HIV/AIDS Service Providers Map

Find HIV / AIDS Prevention & Service ProvidersAIDS.gov has used Google Maps to provide a location-based search tool for AIDS / HIV testing services, housing providers, health centers and other service providers near your current location.The map automatically detects your location and displays the nearest HIV/AIDS prevention and service providers within 5 miles. You can also change your address