Google Maps Creation Tools and Resources - Part 8

There are so many great tools, how-tos and examples out on the web and in the blogosphere for creating and enhancing Google Maps mashups. Here is my eighth roundup of these examples that I've found over the past several weeks..

New Google Maps Creation Tools:

• Fly a plane over your hometown - Make your own Google Maps flight sim with Goggles!
• StickyMap.com - Wiki style user annotation
• Mapicurious - Create your own maps

Do-it-Yourself Google Maps sites' News:

• Communitywalk - Has added bulk edit feature and redesigned map page
• Platial - Recently enabled place blogging and buddy activity views
• Mapbuilder - The first DIY site still going strong: 20,760 maps(213,872 locations total) one year on
• Wikimapia - Now at 1 million+ documented locations (See Micro Persuasion post)

Viewing Tools and Websites:

• Google Maps extension for the Flock browser - (See video)
• Google Map Search Gadget for Google Personalized Homepage
• Firefox Google Maps extension: Shazou - Maps hosting and registration address of site you are viewing [via] Ocarto Meta Viewer - Mesh many mapping services together
• Statcounter.com now uses Google Maps - View visitor data on a map!
• PTViewer shows neat images of German locations
• View Google Maps from your Mac Address Book
• Sony GPS unit for digital cameras uses Google Maps in software pack
• Print Google Maps larger than 640 x 480
• Omnipeek Google Maps plugin

Mashup Resources:

• Dapper - A tool that makes it easy to extract content from any site
• New Blog: Google Maps Book - From the authors of the forthcoming book: Beginning Google Maps Applications with PHP and AJAX
• Google Maps API Version 2 Tutorial
• Free Demographics API - Free demographic, socio-economic or lifestyle information for your mashup
• Add a cool framing zoom method to your Google Maps mashup
• Reverse Geocoder Tool - Click "Diag" for diagnostic mode to see how it calculates an address
• GClientGeocoder - Another great tool from Esa Ojala
• Google Calendar + Google Maps mashup
• Fun with GeoRSS - Directions Magazine article
• Mapstraction - A common mapping API (Read more on ProgrammableWeb)
• Showing polylines on Google Maps Tutorial Google Maps Collaboration using Flex, Flash Media Server and Ajax
• Joomla Google Maps component
• Using Google Maps as a form field in ColdFusion
• Excel + Nitobi Grid + Google Maps
• Cartographer: Ruby on Rails Google Maps plugin
• Using Google Maps in the UK with Rails
• Ruby on Rails and Google Maps Mashup
• Designing a Google Maps plug-in for IBM Lotus Sametime Connect V7.5

Alternative Google Maps API Examples:

• Video Game Map of Cyrodill, Oblivion
• Panoramic Image Viewer of Toronto harbourfront
• More examples here..

Previous Creation Tools posts: [Part 7], [Part 6], [Part 5], [Part 4], [Part 3], [Part 2], [Part 1]
Related Links: Viewing Tools and Creation Tools