Tour de France Real-Time Map

Tour de France Real-Time Map


Impressive Tour de France in Real-Time - almost on the spot - Map is real-time and covers Elevation and actual positions with speed:[kmh/mph] Cycle reps:[rpm] heart-rate:[bpm] and energy used in [watts].
http://data.srmlive.de/TDF/

Source:
http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2011/07/live-tour-de-france-map.html

Google Map Maker USA Launches

Google Map Maker USA Launches

Start adding your local knowledge to the map.

• Add businesses and building outlines.
• Move place markers to the right locations.
• Build a detailed map of your school campus.

(note: Open Street Map does have a service with one major benefit over Google Map Maker - data you create (with many thousands of others) is available to everyone for free even if commercial organization.

Google Maps retains this information only limited places have MapMaker Downloads
http://www.google.com/support/mapmaker/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156852

but read the terms... first.

8.1
You Must Be a Non-Profit Entity, a Government Agency, or an Individual. You must be a non-profit entity, a government agency, or an individual acting on a not-for-profit basis. For-profit entities and individuals acting on a for-profit basis are not permitted to use the Map Maker Source Data, but may be eligible to use Google's other geo-related products, such as the Google Maps APIs, according to the terms of service for those products.

8.2 Your Map Project Must Be Non-Commercial and Free of Charge to Users.

(a) Your Map Project must be for non-commercial uses only. You cannot use Your Map Project to either directly or indirectly generate revenue as part of a for-profit enterprise. For example, Your Map Project cannot be hosted on the website of a for-profit company. However, Your Map Project can be hosted on the website of a validly-registered non-profit or governmental entity (as determined by the applicable law of your jurisdiction).

(b) Your Map Project must be free of charge. You may require users to log in to Your Map Project but you cannot require users to pay a fee (unless you have entered into a separate written agreement with Google or obtained Google's written permission to do so).

8.3 Your Map Project Must Provide Google with Attribution. Unless otherwise agreed to by Google in a written amendment to these Terms, in every instance in which the Map Maker Source Data are used in Your Map Project, Your Map Project must include the following attribution notice in accordance with the requirements below:

(a) Text of Notice: "Map Data © 2009 Google - Improve with Google Map Maker".

Live (real-time) updates of edits to google map maker service - http://www.google.com/mapmaker/pulse




YouTube Video the USA MapMaker

source:
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2011/04/add-your-local-knowledge-to-map-with.html

Twitter Nano

Twitter Nano

Search by Location (Cross-Hairs) and get real-time tweets from twitter.


A real-time geolocation Twitter experience Aim the crosshair by dragging the map and get realtime tweets from that location. It's that simple.

Twitter Nano
http://www.twitternano.com/

Source:
http://www.programmableweb.com/mashup/twitternano

A Real Snow Map #uksnow

A Real Snow Map #uksnow

updated 17.51 06/01/2010



via @jasonhesse

More Interactive Maps are

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

The Met Office Invent site
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/pws/invent/weathermap/

BBC Weather
http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/10209

Wunderground
http://www.wunderground.com/global/UK.html

#uksnow Map 2.0
http://uksnow.benmarsh.co.uk/

UK Snow Dynamic Crowd Sourced Maps

The UK has been experiencing a snow storm recently and people have been tweeting about it!. This page has been setup, as part of my research into crowd sourcing, to track the #uksnow hashtag based on the following format [Postcode District Score/10] since #uksnow became a trending topic. You can help out by tagging the current snow conditions in your own Tweets like this:
http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/sjg/twitter/

more info - http://stevenjamesgray.com/projects/uksnowmaps/

Live Snow Radar Map UK

Live Snow Radar Map UK
*almost live


Pink and Red highlights snowfall - blue and purple represents rain.

"Radar is a remote sensing tool used by weather forecasters to analyse the extent and intensity of precipitation. Radar detects objects by transmitting radio waves which are reflected back to the starting point by any object they encounter. Distance can be calculated using the speed of the radio waves and the amount of time that each pulse takes to reach the object and return back to the starting point. Rain, snow and hail all stop the radio waves. The more pulses that are reflected back, the greater the intensity of the precipitation."

http://www.raintoday.co.uk/static/about_radar.html

View the map in near real-time
http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

powered by Meteogroup and Google Maps API

source: @mapperz

AA Real Time Speed Map England, Scotland & Wales

AA Real Time Speed Map England, Scotland & Wales


Real-time** Speed Mapped on Major Roads and Motorways in England, Scotland and Wales

**10 minutes out approximately

Though when try to zoom out it becomes a little heavy for the Web Browser

The Automobile Association [AA] developers might want to invest a little time investigating Cluster Markers.

Server-Sided Cluster Markers
http://maps.forum.nu/server_side_clusterer/

Javascript Cluster Markers
http://econym.org.uk/gmap/clusterer.htm [monitors the map movements ]

http://googlemapsapi.martinpearman.co.uk/readarticle.php?article_id=1

See the Real-Time Speed Map
http://www.theaa.com/traffic-news/index.jsp

Related Previous Posts
http://mapperz.blogspot.com/2008/11/new-aa-route-planner-beta.html

Real-Time Travel Information Map - Leeds

Real-Time Travel Information Map - Leeds

The Map shows the location of all traffic affecting Road Closures, Roadworks and Planned Events active now or in the near future.

An excellent 'mashup' using numerous data sources including BBC Backstage and Leeds City Council.

Tips on Use: If the map looks cluttered when you visit first use the content panel and switch off all then click individual icons for that layer to be displayed.
Also available is a set your last selected default map position and also remembers your last selection of travel information types and time.

Full Features of the Leeds Travel Information Map

• Map: the map shows the locations of all traffic affected by road closures, roadworks and planned events that are active now or in the near future
• Car Parking: A list of up to the minute information on car parking spaces
• Travel News: This tab contains a searchable list of all traffic affecting road closures, roadworks and planned future events.
  
• RSS Feeds: subscribing to the RSS feeds you can receive up to the minute travel information of your choice for the Leeds area
  
• Mobile Services: live travel information to mobile phones with Google Maps for Mobile

More Information from the Help Guide
and for a Full Legend for the Map Icons go to the Key

Leeds Travel Information Map


More like this please! Mapperz

Google Maps includes Transit Data

Google Maps includes Transit Data


Formally they only way to access this for the 21 (most in the US) cities was via
http://www.google.com/transit

But it seems from today that is now available via the Google Maps main portal.

It's a good way to help get information to the user, real-time traffic can also be overlayed to see any potential delays.

The coverage hopefully expands and in due course 'city' commuters will be able to access it via mobile devices.
No European Cities to date.


try it out here:
http://www.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=
&time=&date=&ttype=&saddr=university+washington
&daddr=robinswood&sll=47.598755,-122.199554&sspn
=0.10441,0.32135&dirflg=r&ie=UTF8&ll=47.651281,
-122.202301&spn=0.13414,0.32135&z=12&om=1&layer=t&start=0
(time for tinyurls google?)

Mapperz Source:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6507

Now there is an Official Post from Google LatLong Blog on this topic.

Google Directions adds real Traffic Times

Google Maps Directions adds real Traffic/Journey Times


Very simple but very useful

Going to JFK to New York (Google's centre point for New York) or vice versa in this example - waiting 10 minutes between requests shows two different sets of traffic and therefore adjusts the approximate time for the journey.
Knowing the 'appendence' of each segment of line (road in this case) and the distance is therfore easy to work out the time it will take to cover that segment, join them up and you get an ETA of the journey.

Official Post from the Google Lat/Long Blog



Next transitional times - incorporating walking time, trains, train stops, buses, trams as well as Traffic?
Mapperz

Quick Note:
Geocoding Expands India, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, or Ireland (Via the MapRoom)
Official Post by Pamela Fox Maps API Team

Tour de France 2007 - Live Tracking and Elevation

Tour de France 2007 - Live Tracking and Elevation

An updated version from last year adds elevation - as well as live tracking even includes heart rate, stress points and distance travel per cyclist




Move the Slider to see location and profile elevation. Also shows Current Distance

come back in 22 hours when the next stage is live to see live tracking.
2006 Version

2007 Version

Google Earth in Tandem

Your friends can now follow along with you in Google Earth



required

• a friend

• Skype (voice/video over ip)

• Unype (little app)

• Google Earth
  

Synchronising two users with Google Earth installed on each others pc, using the popular skype program to send the information and unype sends basic kml to the viewers google earth app.

Good for demo's and showing friends places.

more info and video
http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/2007/03/skype-goolge
-earth-multi-user-google.html

http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2007/03/
skype_unype_multiuse.html

Source: Nafcom

Google Maps Live Traffic

Google Maps has now real-time traffic conditions

update:
Offical Blog: Stuck in traffic? http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/stuck-in-traffic.html


Google Maps Live Traffic now provides a new layer for traffic congestion

• Green Lines equals more than 50 miles per hour
• Orange equals 25 - 50 miles per hour
• Red equals to less than 25 miles per hour
• Grey equals no data available

3am New York (8am London GMT)

8am New York (12pm London GMT)

source: Google Operating System
mapperz