Google Maps Creation Tools and Resources - Part 9

I'm back with Part 9 of the Creation and Viewing Tools post series. It's amazing how popular these are. I've been gathering these links for several weeks and have assembled them by category below. For those of you new to the Google Maps mashup world you might find the first set of links interesting. They will allow you to build your own mashup. Check the links at the very bottom of this post for more! Enjoy! :)

Google Maps Creation Tools:

• Donkey Magic MapMaker - Lots of new mashups are using this great tool.
• BlipStar - Add a store locator to your business website. Check the TechCrunch review here.
• Mapygon - Add, share and explore locations with polygon overlay markers and paths. (Examples: Versailles, The Pentagon, Great Wall of China)
• Mapsack - How-To: Add it to your own blog/website
• MapSprout - Demo here.
• WikiWalki - Search, Share GPS tracks on Google Maps
• TripDiary
• ZeeMaps - Upload addresses from CSV file (Excel, Outlook, Act)
• Platial How-To - For publishing Platial Maps on outside websites. Also includes a YouTube video
• Wikimapia now supports Google Earth - Check out Wikimapia here you can watch.

Mashup Resources:

• Dynamic Map Icon Generator - There are lots of free mashup resources online but this one is worth the $20 (Paypal) annual rate - create high quality PNG files for your maps mashup using an online web editor! I've had a look and used the interface and it's quite good.
• Free Map Icons - From the same company as above - a load of free map icons if you don't wish to create your own.
• Lassozoomer - bookmarklet that enables fast zoom in on an AJAX map like Google Maps to a rectangular area selected by mouse drag. Add this functionality to your mashup with a few lines of code.
• Google Maps + WordPress = GeoPress - From O'Reilly Radar. Another Wordpress plugin is G-Map.
• Gmaps 101 - Continuing the Introduction to Google Maps & The Google Maps API V2 (Part 3)
• Geocoding Functionality Build Into Google Maps API V2
• GISUser Free Tools and TrialWare
• Finding and Creating Google Maps Overlays
• TLabel API Labeling Extension
• Zmanim Calendar Generator - With Google Maps lookup
• Online spreadsheets and KML

Google Maps API & Dev Resources:

• Google Maps Search Gadget - For your homepage, blog or Google Personalized Start
• How to add Google Search to your Maps API application - From the Google Maps Team. Example here.
• Google AJAX Search API (see original blog post)
• Blogger.com: Google Map search via hyperlinks in your posts
• Google Code: Google Transit Feed Specification (see original blog post)

Google Maps + Images

• Zooomr adds Tagmap - Add and browse Zooomr images on a Google Map
• Mac iPhoto + Google Maps (video clip)
• Panoramio Updates - Better map viewing performance and speed. Site now has 50,000 photos and 8,000 registered users
• MapMyPhoto
• PhotoClub Photographers Map
• TPhoto Google Maps API extension

Mac:

• Google Maps Plugin article
• Google Maps Plugin 2.6 Improves Google Earth Support
• Apps: Google Maps Plugin, ForgEdit

Viewing Tools:

• Google Maps full screen
• Locate on Google Maps 1.0 - Highlight an address on a Web page, right click the mouse, and choose Locate on Google Maps menu item, and you will see the location at Google Maps and find the directions.
• Mozdev: Regional Google Maps plugins
• Yet another Google Maps vs. Yahoo! Maps Viewer
• Google Maps plug-in for Microsoft Outlook Contacts

Other Google Maps Blogs/Wikis/groups:

• Mapki
• Google Maps API Blog
• Google Maps API Group
• Beginning Google Maps Applications

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