Your Google Maps Guide to Paris

If you want an alternative to The Guardian's Google Maps city guides then you need look no further than the New York Times. The NYT's Travel section provides Google Maps based guides for many of the most popular tourist destinations around the world.Each of the city guide maps allow you to select different categories of markers to view on the map. The categories are hotels, restaurants,

Hiking in France with Google Maps

Randonee dans l'Ain is a really nicely designed website promoting hiking, horse riding and bike trails in Ain, an area of the region Rhône-Alpes in France.Each of the trails can be viewed on Google Maps. The route of each selected trail is displayed on the map and you can select to view restaurants, activities, photos and accommodation along and near the trail. Each trail also comes with an

Street View Arrives in Monaco

Google Maps has added Street View for the principality of Monaco. As well as this new Street View imagery for Monaco the Street View trike has been busy in Switzerland.As the second smallest country in the world (after Vatican City) it probably didn't take the Street View car too long to capture the latest imagery on Google Maps. Despite its size, however, Monaco has a lot of interesting

Live Tour de France Map

It has taken a while but I have finally found a live real-time map of this year's Tour de France. The map shows the real-time position of 13 of the riders. The map sidebar shows the current speed of each rider and their current heartbeat. Beneath the map is an interactive elevation chart of the current stage. SRMLive_________________

Ride the Tour de France on Google Maps

Cycling the Alps has created a number of Google Maps and Google Earth tours for each stage of the Tour de France.Each stage comes with four options:1. You can view an animated tour of the stage in 3d with the Google Earth browser plug-in.2. You can view an animated tour with Google Maps Street View (created with the TripGeo application).3. You can view a Google Map of the route with an

Follow the Tour de France on Google Maps

Bikemap.net has created Google Maps for every stage of this year's Tour de France. Each map shows the route of the selected stage with an elevation chart and details about the route stage length, vertical climb and category. The map has Street View enabled so you can even get a first person view of what the cyclists will be seeing as they frantically pedal across France. bikemap.net_____________

Special Offers for Students

Transparent School MapThe Mapize team has created a Google Map of higher education institutions in and around Paris, displaying nearby venues with special offers.If you click on any of the map markers you can view details about the selected educational institution including its full address. To help impoverished students stretch their limited funds each mapped institution also displays nearby

Electric Car Charge Points on Google Maps

ChargeMapChargeMap can show you the location of charging stations for electric cars in France. The application is available for iPhones, Android and from the desktop.If you enter your current location into the desktop application ChargeMap will show you the nearest charging stations on a Google Map. Your location is shown by a red marker on the map and the charge stations are indicated by blue

French Shopping Deals on Google Maps

This year there has been a spurt of English language websites using Google Maps to show you nearby shops and restaurants offering daily deals and coupons. Coupon sites are also proving very popular in France.OhmydealOhmydeals is a French website for daily deals and coupons. Ohmydeals uses Google Map to allow users to find their nearest deals.It is possible to search the map by location and by