World Cup 2010 Maps - South Africa

World Cup 2010 Maps - South Africa

updated 8pm 11th June 2010

With South Africa Opening the World Cup with the first World Cup 2010 GOAL against Mexico here is a quick guide of the best of a selection of World Cup Maps (RSA 1 vs Mexico 1 final score)

Bing Maps World Cup 2010

Only just released is a another 'app' from Bing Maps that gives you metadata on teams, fixtures and results on the map and left side panel. Hopefully it will be updated live in real-time.

http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/?preview=1#5003/0.50380=AccordionViewState:Standings/5872/style=a&lat=0&lon=0&z=2&pid=5874

Google have a dedicated World Cup 2010 Venue Map at
http://maps.google.com/maps?ftr=marketing.worldcup



Colourful World Cup Map at:
http://worldcup.mapize.com/



Washington Post World Cup Explorer
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/worldcup/map/index.html



BBC have a Venue Map here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport/hi/football/8094737.stm & here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8726302.stm

An Best Individual Map Award goes to Keir Clarke

World Cup Venues
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/keir.clarke/web/wcvenues.htm

New York Times - 3D Olympic Venues Map

New York Times - 3D Olympic Venues Map

If you want just one map to locate events for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver 2010 then this Interactive and Animated 3D Map created by The New York Times is it.

• Highly Detailed
• Smooth Animated Zooms to Event Locations
• Interactive (Users can control 3D aspects panning and zoom)
• Informative Details on the Sport persons to look out for
• High Quality Action Photographs.

Clicking from the Map above smoothly zooms to:

Users can control Aspect using the controls in the top right corner.


Using Flash there is a quick response to load up a very impressive 3D Animated Map

Well done to
SHAN CARTER, MATTHEW ERICSON and JOE WARD; Additional reporting by Melissa Hoppert

Sources: Elevation data by Intermap Technologies Inc.; satellite photographs by Digital Globe, Province of British Columbia and TerraMetrics via Google Earth

Visit the New York Times - 3D Olympic Venues Map
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/02/09/sports/olympics/2010-olympics-venue-map.html

England Rocks! Map

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