Google Map of the Week

Normally the Google Maps of the Week is a round-up of the best maps to have featured on Google Maps Mania in the previous week. This week we have saved the best to last.Levi's Roadwear is a clever marketing campaign that uses the Google Maps API to help promote Levi's jeans. The application maps out and lets users explore the Levi's Roadwear range of clothes.The app includes two map layers, '

Google Maps of the Week

Discovery Channel - Remembering 9/11Nearly everybody can remember where they were when they heard that flight 11 had flown into the World Trade Center’s North Tower and that the South Tower had collapsed.The Discovery Channel has created this Google Map to commemorate the collective presence and kindness of strangers that got many people through the unimaginable horrors they witnessed that

Google Maps of the Week

Maersk Fleet - Live MapReal-time Google Maps tracking vehicles can be particularly useful for public transit passengers. However shipping company Maersk show that they can be equally effective as a marketing tool.This Google Map allows you to track in real-time the huge shipping containers of Maersk as they travel around the world. The position of the ships are displayed live on the map and you

Google Maps of the Week

They Draw & Travel - World MapThey Draw & Travel is a collection of wonderful user submitted hand drawn maps.The World Map lets you browse the maps submitted to They Draw & Travel on Google Maps. You can click on any of the map markers and view the hand drawn map submitted for that location.One Day on EarthOn 10.10.10 One Day on Earth asked people around the world to create a video of their

The Pick of this Week's Google Maps

Met Office: Storm TrackerThe UK Met Office has created a new Google Maps based application to monitor and forecast tropical cyclones around the world.The application allows you to view worldwide cloud conditions and the locations of current cyclones. If you select a cyclone on the map you can view the cyclone's observed track and wind speeds recorded along the track.As well as viewing current

Google Map of the Week

HistorypinHistorypin isn't a new map exactly but this week's release of some exciting new features is enough to make it my favourite map of the week.There is a new Historypin mobile app. The mobile app and the desktop version have a new augmented reality view in Street View that dispays thumbnails of nearby photographs. If you click on one of the photographs you are immediately transported to

The Google Maps of the Week

There has been two stand out maps this week.SRMLive is a great live real-time map of the Tour de France. If you are a fan of the peloton then you will love following the riders on this map.Intersect, on the other hand, is an excellent application for plotting your life stories, with the added bonus that you can see how your stories intersect with the stories of others.IntersectIntersect is an

The Google Maps of the Week

AnimapsThere has been quite a reaction to Animaps this week on the social networks. The ease with which you can create an animated map with Animaps seems to have particularly appealed to a lot of teachers.Animaps lets you create your own animated maps. You could use the application to create an animated map of a journey you have taken, or to show how a bike / yacht race progressed or even to

The Google Maps Apps of the Week

Hurtigruten: Minute by MinuteNorwegian Public Service broadcaster NRK this week live broadcasted the voyage of the cruise liner Hurtigruten around the Norway coastline for 134 hours. As well as amazing live footage you could follow the position of the cruise liner on a real-time Google Map.The cruise is now over but you can still view video of the event. If you click on any of the red dots on

Google Maps Mania's Apps of the Week

Mini Maps on FacebookThe most retweeted map on Google Maps Mania this week was definitely this racing game from Mini.Mini Maps is a great driving game for Facebook that lets you race anywhere in the world on Google Maps. You can race on tracks created by other players, competing against the best track times or even race against others by inviting your Facebook friends to play.Alternatively you

Google Maps of the Week

Toronto is TrendingToronto is Trending has a really cool welcome screen and a cool Google Map as well. On first entering the Toronto is Trending website you are presented with a full-screen video of Toronto. Twitter speech bubbles then appear above some of the moving pedestrians in the video and follow them down the street.If you switch to the 'map view' you can see the latest Tweets and

Google Maps of the Week

Yvan Rodic - CitiesIn many ways this is a very simple Google Map - but it just looks soooo good. Yvan Rodic is a journalist and photographer. He has used the Google Maps Styled Maps feature to create a visually attractive interface to browse his photography of cities around the world.Paint Your StreetHave you ever wanted to spray your tag on the side of the White House or Buckingham Palace?Well

The Best Google Maps of the Week

El Microscopio del VotoThe 2011 Spanish electoral results in the context of historical electoral results and a vast range of demographic indicators. Using the map you can view electoral results since 1987 and discover how the electoral and socio-economic landscape of Spain has evolved over the last few decades.TU Delft CloudviewerTU Delft Clouvdviewer allows for the 3D exploration of massive

The Best Google Maps of the Week

Invisible PlaygroundInvisible Playground was definitely the most retweeted map on Google Maps Mania this week. Using the Google Maps satellite view as a background image certainly seemed to catch a lot of people's imagination.When you drag the map around the map also moves for everyone else viewing the webpage. What's more every move of the map is recorded and Invisible Playground plan to

Google Maps of the Week

Where the Streets Have Your NameBy far the most Tweeted map this week was this Google Map that lets you find all the roads, parks and rivers that share your name around the world.If you haven't already tried this vanity map search give it a go now.Groupon NowGroupon has finally turned on location and has become a lot more useful in the process. Groupon Now lets you view the nearest deals to

Google Maps of the Week

My two favourite maps of this week are both weather maps. WeatherSpark is a pretty amazing map that lets you view historical weather records and El Tiempo is a very good implementation of a Google Map to display weather forecasts.WeatherSparkWeatherSpark is a pretty amazing Google Map of current and historical weather conditions. The site lets you view the historical records of over 4,000