Google Maps Mania links for 2007-04-16

• Kurt Cobain Google Maps and YouTube Mashup - Here's is a tribute to Nirvana's Kurt Cobain by Hank Liu. He uses Google Maps and YouTube to take you on a journey through Kurt Cobain's career (1987-1994).
• CBS News Google Maps Mashup - Mashes up Google Maps with the CBS News KML.
• Corozal Mapia: Great local tourism mashup! - Here is a another great local tourism Google Maps mashup example (I also like this example). Mashes up local attractions and points of interest for Corozal, Belize with YouTube videos, news, photos and more. Monetized within the info-windows using Google AdSense as well!
• Team Extreme NBA Google Map - Uses Google Maps to display all NBA teams. A nice Google Calendar implementation can be found on the "Schedule" info-window tab in this mashup.
• Vino2Vino World Winery Region Map (Zoom out to see world regions) - Maps various wine regions from around the world. Here is a description from the Digg entry: "..Vino2Vino.com has launched a new winery mapping feature, built on top of the Google maps API. It has some pretty cool features like clustering at high zoom levels along with paginated info windows that allow users to easily navigate detailed information for all of the wineries in a cluster. Thus, over 1,100 wineries are viewable on a single map." Check out this blog post for more details..
• Map of the largest countries in the world by area
• New Google Maps Game - World Geography Quiz (More Google Maps Games here..)
• GiveEarthAHand.com - Uses Google Maps to help non-profits and their projects.
• Twitters on Google Maps - Another Twitter Google Maps mashup (by Virender Ajmani)
• GeoGreeting is up for a Webby Award! - GeoGreeting, the fun Google Maps greeting tool is nominated for a Webby Award in the Peoples Voice category. Go here, click 'Register now to vote' on the right side, and follow the instructions. GeoGreeting is in the NetArt category in the Entertainment section (2nd section from the top) for websites.
• The Eyes of the Earth - Check out the eyes of the earth Flickr screenshot in Mendoza Argentina that shows real photos of the location and links off to Earth and Maps to view it. A big shout-out to Kevin and Justina Mendoza on this one! :)
• Real world Google Maps marker - I posted about this a long time back but I love the video that was shot for this so I'm posting again in case you haven't seen it yet! :)
• Photo: Google Maps being used in the Hamburg Underground - Stephan Brosinski took this picture using his cell phone recently. He mentions that "For certain stations they show a satellite map of the area, marking the underground station and points of
• interests around it. There are also "bubbles" pointing to businesses in the area of the underground station" Here is the original blog post (in German language)
• DatesNearby - Check out the example query 02451 or your own local zip code to test drive this mashup.
• NAC Geographic + NAC Universal Addressing System + Google Maps
• Maps Meet Mashups - Information Week - March 17/07
• Zipcar taps Google Maps to make reserving cars easier - Network World - March 3/07