PublicEarth 'Wiki for Places'

PublicEarth 'Wiki for Places'

PublicEarth is a'wikipedia for places' that can be extended by users. Using Google Maps to display 'crowdsourced' Points of Interest [POI] locations.
Guests can view the data in a read-only format whereas registered users rate places,create collections and can personalise their suggestions.


Clean, Fast Public Earth Points of Interests [POI] Layers.

example:
http://www.publicearth.com/explore/2c51606a-c99f-11de-addb-00163e75a173?swx=-1.5652084350585938&swy=50.844538088124565&nex=-1.2411117553710938&ney=50.96534632163772#page=0


PublicEarth has currently 4 million + POI's and rising, all grouped into a number of categories. PublicEarth has over 450 categories, these include the usual categories such as restaurants and entertainment but also more unusual topics.

Full List of Catergories
http://www.publicearth.com/categories/browse
include
Arts, Culture & Entertainment
Recreation & the Outdoors
Shopping
Community Essentials
Places to Stay
Food & Drink.

Some different catergories to the norm.
Fossil Sites, Kiteboarding Locations, Public Rooftops, Shipwrecks, Sundials, Street Art

The site allows the user to plan a trip or a day out and then send the saved locations to a GPS device, a mobile phone or e-mail them to friends. PublicEarth also lets you display your saved places on your own website or blog by creating and embedding a widget.

The site even comes with an API that allows developers to access PublicEarth's huge database of recommendations.

Google Maps Mobile (3.2) More Layers

Google Map Mobile (3.2) More Layers


New Layers come to Google Maps for Mobile Devices

The new version, 3.2.0, adds a 'Layers' of information displayed on top of the map background to assist users to find out features and real-time incidents and transit information.

Google have updated Google Maps Mobile and there are new features such as:

• Wikipedia Layer
• Transit Layer - with real-time data
• MyMaps Layer - add your own content from MyMaps.
• Nearest features - search around your current map location.
  

Layers make it easier and more useful to find and interact with geographic content, like public transit, traffic (with incidents!), local search results, Latitude friend locations, Wikipedia and more. You can also see your own My Maps content as a layer on Google Maps for mobile. And finally, multiple layers can be combined at the same time to give you a content-rich view of what's around you.



Updated Release Notes:
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=156059

Related Post:
A nice roundup of the features are available from AllAboutSymbian
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/10160_Layers_added
_to_Google_Maps_fo.php

Official Source:
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/07/layers-of-fun-in
-google-maps-for-mobile.html

Google Maps adds 'More' and Explore

Google Maps adds 'More' and Explore

Google Maps has added Wikipedia and Photos from http://www.panoramio.com/


This enhances the online mapping application into a more powerful and visual locating tool.

Clicking the 'More' exposes the new available layers.

See it in action

These features seem to be spawned from the Google Earth Desktop application and now made available in the web browser.

So when will Google Maps do 3D?

Source and more information available at Google Maps Mania