Remapping Cities with Google Maps

Livehoods is an interesting project to remap city neighborhoods by ignoring the traditional geographical boundaries and instead looking at human social interactions.

By analysing over 18 million Foursquare check-ins Livehoods, a project from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, has produced three city maps with new neighborhoods based on the patterns of the groups of people that check-in to Foursquare venues.

So far there are three Livehoods maps: New York City, San Francisco, Pittsburgh. The dots on the maps represent different check-in locations. Groups of nearby dots of the same color form a Livehood. The groups are determined when the same people check-in to two nearby locations.

Create Your Own Fousquare Heat Maps

In the Heat is a heat map creation tool for foursquare check-ins.

Using the application it is possible to create an animated heat map for foursquare check-ins at any location in the world. Creating a heat map is very simple it just require choosing a location and a venue category. It is possible to select from a number of venue categories, for example coffee, stations, nightlife.

In the Heat then creates a Google Map of your location. The map can be animated to view the number of check-ins through time at the venues shown in your map view. The map also comes with a slider control that allows the user to adjust the time displayed on the map.

It's Friday Night on Google Maps

If you live in New York, Paris or San Francisco you should have a look at
Voulez-vous check-in avec moi ce soi before heading out tonight.

Voulez-vous ... uses real-time data from foursquare to see who is checked in at different locations in New York, Paris and San Francisco. Check-ins are then aggregated over one week to assess the current coolness of each venue.

The size of each circle on the map indicates the number of people checked in at each spot. Colors indicate where girls (pink) or guys (blue) are a majority.

Foursquare Venues Nearby on Google Maps

4sqoogle is a Google Map that shows the nearest restaurants, bars, clubs and shops using the foursquare API.

The application allows the user to find nearby venues based on a number of categories (food, nightlife, entertainment and shopping). Each venue shown on the map includes the address, the total number of foursquare check-ins, live check-ins and the number of opinions.

Beneath the map you can also find the venue that has the most check-ins, the venue that has the most live check-ins and the venue that has the most comments on foursquare (based on the venues in the current map view).

Via: PrgrammableWeb

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World of Fourcraft on Google Maps

Why settle for being the Mayor of Macy's when you can be the King of New York?

World of Fourcraft is a clever new Google Maps based game that turns your foursquare check-ins into a giant game of Risk. If you live in New York you can sign in with your foursquare account and then swear your allegiance to one of the city's boroughs.

After you have chosen a team every time you check-in with foursquare in New York you add one of your armies to that neighborhood. If your team places the most armies in a neighborhood you win that area for your borough.

World of Fourcraft

Via: Mashable

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Visualise Your Foursquare Data

TripsQ

TripsQ is a data visualisation application that aims to help people make full use of the data they’ve generated through Foursquare. It uses all the data you have gathered while travelling, by turning your check-ins at airports into useful travel statistics.

Everyone who uses Foursquare can easily sign in to tripsQ and visualise their trips and travel itineraries. TripsQ also provides users with detailed statistics on the distance they’ve travelled, the amount of CO² they’ve produced during each trip and other information about their travels.

The site uses Google Maps to visualise your travels around the world. The map has been beuatifully styled with the Styled Maps feature to create a map that complements the overall design of the tripsQ website.

There are some other cool features coming soon as well. One planned feature is to show the tips left by your friends in each of the cities you visit. Another planned feature will be to show the distance you have walked during each of your trips.

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Foursquare on Google Maps

4sqmap

4sqmap lets you view your foursquare check-ins on a Google Map and access all your other foursquare statistics.

As well as viewing all the locations you have checked-in you can view all the places where you have earned badges and where you have become the mayor. You can also view the latest check-ins made by your foursquare friends.

The map also allows you to search for the currently trending venues, search for recommended place nearby and search for local venues that are currently running foursquare deals or offers.

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Find the Nearest Foursquare Deals

Free Around
Free Around is a web application designed to help you find nearby foursquare deals.

The app is designed to be used from your phone and to be used when you are out and about. When you open the app on your phone it will detect your location and then use the foursquare API to display the nearest foursquare check-in deals on a Google Map.

Details of each venue offering deals nearby are displayed beneath the map. The app also displays the distance to each venue from your current location.

Also See

Checkin Mania: Check-in Deals - A Google Maps based app showing local businesses offering deals through foursquare

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Find Foursquare Deals on Google Maps

Checkin Mania: Check-in Deals

Check-in Deals lets you find all the local businesses offering deals through Foursquare. All you have to do is type in your location and you can view all your nearby deals on a Google Map.

As well as being displayed on the map all the deals are listed in the map sidebar. You can filter the displayed deals by 'Newbie Special', 'Check-in Special', 'Mayor Special' etc. If you click on the sidebar listing the location of the selected venue is displayed on the map.

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Checkin Mania's Google Maps Widget

Checkin Mania

Checkin Mania is a Google Maps mashup to track who is checking in around you using FourSquare, Gowalla, Brightkite and Twitter.

To browse a location you can use the search facility or you can just click on the map. The map will then display all the venues around you and show you who are the top users of that venue with the popular location based social media apps.

It is now possible to add a Chekin Mania map gadget to your own website or to your Google home page. You can adjust the height and width of the Checkin Mania gadget, you can also set a default location and select the services you want displayed (Foursquare, Gowalla, BrightKite or Twitter).

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The World Cup Location Based Service

FIFA World Cup Snag Wars

Forget about becoming the mayor of your local Starbucks and start grabbing territory for your favourite football team. FIFA World Cup Snag Wars, is a location based game for the iPhone. Using the Snag Wars app players can 'snag' and flag locations for their favourite World Cup teams.

Using the application players can snag their home, their local sports centre, football pitch or any other location. Each snagged location will then display the flag of their chosen football team.

Currently Australia are in the lead with 109 snagged territories, with Brazil in second place with 70 flags. The on-line website of Snag Wars also features a Google Map that animates through the locations of the latest snagged locations.

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A Google Maps Based Forum for Locations

Foursquare Tips & Forum

Foursquare Tips and Forum allows you to view Foursquare tips on a Google Map for any location. The map on first loading automatically detects your location and displays the Foursquare tips in your vicinity.

The map uses categorised map markers so, for example if you are looking for a restaurant, you can quickly browse through the Foursquare comments about restaurants in the area.

However, as well as being able to browse tips from Foursquare, you can also start a forum about any of the businesses or venues around a location. When you are reading a Foursqure tip on the map if you click on the forum icon (positioned next to the venue name) you can then open a forum about the venue / business and start a discussion.

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Foursquare Tips on Google Maps

Foursquare Tips

This Google Maps mashup can show you some handy tips from Foursquare.

Foursquare Tips detects your current location and loads tips from the location sharing site for businesses in your current vicinity. The map uses categorised map markers to show you recommended shops, bars and restaurants.

If you wish to view Foursquare Tips for a different location just pan the map and the tips will update automatically to reflect the current map view.

Also See

• FourWhere - find reviews and comments from FourSquare about places around you
• CheckoutCheckins - create a heat map of your Foursquare checkins
• Where Do You Go? - also lets you create a heat map of your checkins
• Create Your Own Foursquare Google Map - tutorial explaining how to create your own Google Map with your latest Foursquare checkins
• SocialGreat - shows the locations of the current most popular places in cities
• Peek Maps - embeddable widget that shows your recent FourSquare location on a Google Map
• Ul.timate.info - Ul.timate.info is a FireFox add-on that allows you to check-in to Foursquare from any computer using IP and wifi based location services

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Check Who's Checkin' In

Checkin Mania

Checkin Mania is a Google Maps mashup to track who is checking in around you using FourSquare, Gowalla, Brightkite and Yelp.

To browse a location you can use the search facility or you can just click on the map. The map will then display all the venues around you and show you who are the top users of that venue with the popular location based social media apps.

One really cool feature of this map is the vast array of different map markers that are used. The markers let you tell at a glance whether the displayed venues are bars, cafes, auto-mobile garages etc. The number of individualised map markers is incredible, to the extent that Big Ben has a Big Ben shaped marker and the Statue of Liberty has a Statue of Liberty marker.

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Real-Time Google Map for SXSW

Vicarious.ly

Vicarious.ly is a Google Map mashup that displays a real-time stream of what's going on in Austin, TX. The map displays geo-tagged content from Twitter, FourSquare, Gowalla, Loopt, Whrrl, Plancast, Brizzly and a few other location services.

When you first load the map you see the last 15 minutes of activity stream by quickly and, from that point forward, new activity in real-time. The individual messages are shown on the map with map markers bearing the logos of the location service used and the messages are displayed beneath the map.

The map has been developed for SXSW in Austin but there are plans to launch Vicarious.ly maps of many other cities around the world in the near future.

Via: TechCrunch

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FourSquare Comments on Google Maps

FourWhere

FourWhere is a really cool Google Maps mashup that allows you to find reviews and comments from FourSquare about places around you. So, for example, if you’re looking for a place that serves great coffee, you can use FourWhere to find cafes and restaurants nearby and read reviews by Foursquare users.

FourWhere allows you to click on a Google Map and get nearby comments and venues that have been posted on FourSquare. To use the map right-click on a location and select to view either comments or venues around that location. The comments or venues are then displayed on the Google Map.

If you choose to view comments FourWhere uses numbered map markers to show how many comments have been made about a particular venue. If you roll-over the map marker the sidebar will automatically scroll to display all the comments about that venue.

This is a really useful map to find great restaurants, bars and cafes around a particular location.

Also See

• CheckoutCheckins - create a heat map of your Foursquare checkins.
• Where Do You Go? - also lets you create a heat map of your checkins.
• Create Your Own Foursquare Google Map - tutorial explaining how to create your own Google Map with your latest Foursquare checkins.
• SocialGreat - shows the locations of the current most popular places in cities.
• Peek Maps - embeddable widget that shows your recent FourSquare location on a Google Map.
• Ul.timate.info - Ul.timate.info is a FireFox add-on that allows you to check-in to Foursquare from any computer using IP and wifi based location services.

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Foursquare on Google Maps

CheckoutCheckins

CheckoutCheckins allows you to create a heat map of your Foursquare checkins. Once you log-in to the map with your Foursquare account it uses the places you've been to generate maps, charts, graphs, and stats.

CheckoutCheckins plots your last 50 entries using Google Maps and overlays a heat map of your most recent activity. The site also produces pie charts that provide a graphic presentation of your most often visited locations.

Via: Cnet

Where Do You Go?
CheckoutCheckins is very similar to the already established site Where Do You Go?, which also allows Foursquare users to create a heat map of their travels. Once you log into the site with a Google account and then authenticate with Foursquare you can create a heat map that visualises your location data using color on Google Maps.

Denser concentrations of color on the map indicate more Foursquare check-ins at a venue at that particular location.

Create Your Own Foursquare Google Map
If you want to add a Google Map of your Forsquare checkins to your own website or blog this tutorial is very useful.

In the tutorial Michael Pucher explains how to use your Foursquare feed with Google Spreadsheets to create a Google Map that will update with your latest Foursquare checkins.

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Google Maps Using the Foursquare API

Where Do You Go?
Where Do You Go? allows Foursquare users to create a heat map of their travels. Once you log into the site with a Google account and then authenticate with Foursquare you can create a heat map that visualises your location data using color on Google Maps.

Denser concentrations of color on the map indicate more Foursquare check-ins at a venue at that particular location.

SocialGreat
SocialGreat is another mashup using the Foursquare API and Google Maps. The site uses data from Foursquare to show what are the current most popular places in cities and uses the Google Maps API to show where those places are.

SocialGreat tells you which bars, restaurants and hot spots in FourSquare cities are "great" according to a near real-time feed of "social" location data from Foursquare users. You can use the map to check which spots are the most popular this hour, day, week, or month.

Peek Maps

Peek Maps is a free embeddable widget that shows your recent location on a Google Map and can be placed into a web page, blog, or sent as a link and shared with whoever you want.

If you are a Foursquare user, you can have your recent check-ins appear on your Peek Map.

Ul.timate.info
Ul.timate.info is a FireFox add-on that allows you to check-in to Foursquare from any computer using IP and wifi based location services.

When you run the add-on the first thing that will appear is a Google Map of where you are. You can then update Foursquare with you location as well as your Facebook, Myspace, FriendFeed and Twitter accounts.

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