Brazillian Real-Estate on Google Maps

These days I rarely get excited by real-estate maps but I do love Epungo. This Brazilian real-estate map truly is a thing of beauty.

The map includes a radial and polygon search tool that allows the user to closely define the area that they wish to search for properties. The search results can also be refined by using the slide controls to define the price, number of rooms and the floor area.

None of these features are exactly new to real-estate maps but Epungo has brought them together in one gorgeous package. I also really like the step-by-step walk-through of the search tools that the site offers when you first load the map. 

Rain Forest Street View Out Now

Google has today released amazing Street View imagery of the Amazon River in Brazil.

The new Street View imagery includes the the Rio Negro and some Amazon forests. A good place to start exploring the new imagery is in this Amazon Street View Gallery.



As well as the new Amazon Street View Google has also released Street View imagery for the major towns in Poland.

Via: Google Lat Long

Recycling Google Maps Driving Directions

Rota da Reciclagem is a Google Maps based application that provides Brazilians with driving directions to their nearest recycling centre.

Users of the application can enter their home address and the map will automatically display a polygon showing the route to the nearest recycling centre. A map marker displays the user's home location. Click on the map marker and a link is provided to view turn-by-turn directions to the recycling centre.

Find a TAM Flight with Google Maps

Brazilian airline TAM has released a nice destination finder called TAM Tips. The application allows users to search for vacation destinations based on their personal preferences.

TAM Tips uses Google Maps to show possible vacation locations based on TAM airlines' destinations. The destinations suggested on the map can be refined by selecting categories of interest, for example museums and galleries, sport, music, mountains, beaches etc.

If you click on a suggested destination on the map you can then read a review of the location and view the price of a ticket on TAM airlines to the destination.

Electronic Recycling Points on Google Maps

If you need to recycle electronic appliances in Brazil then you need e-lixo. E-lixo is a Google Maps based search engine for finding the location of collection points and recycle bins for electronic appliances throughout Brazil.

Searching for nearby recycling locations involves entering a location and the type of electronic appliance that needs to be recycled. E-lixo then displays a Google Map showing nearby collection points. If you click on one of the returned map markers you can view details of the recycling centre's address and phone number.

Brazilian Directions with Points of Interest

Brazilian website Guiamais has created a Google Maps route finder for Brazil. The map also lets you search for local businesses and points of interest.

The route finder currently works for driving and walking directions. If you want to break up you journey you can also add points of interest to the map, such as fast food, banks and restaurants etc.

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Brazilian Taxi Fares on Google Maps

Tarifadetaxi is a Google Maps based taxi fare calculator for the major towns and cities in Brazil.

To calculate a fare with the map users can enter their starting point and destination into the search fields or they can just click on both points on the map. The app will then return a calculation of the fare for 'band 1' and 'band 2' journeys.

Users can also view the suggested Google Maps driving directions for the journey.

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A Google Maps Guide to São Paulo's Art

The Arte Fora do Museu project aims to map the works of art that can be found on the streets of São Paulo. The project's Google Map provides a great city guide to São Paulo's publicly accessible works of art.

The map highlights the murals, sculptures, architecturally important buildings and graffiti that can be found in the city's public spaces. Each art work on the map includes a detailed synopsis by an expert on the work.

If you click on a marker you can view the art work using Google Maps Street View, view the experts comments in a YouTube video and read a brief description of the work.

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Brazil's Cachaças on Google Maps

Brazil's most popular alcoholic drink is cachaça. In fact it is so popular that there are over 4000 cachaça distilleries in Brazil.



Guia Mapa da Cachaça is a crowd-sourced map plotting the location, photos and histories of Brazil's cachaças and cachaças distilleries. The Google Map of the distilleries allows you to find where each cachaças is made and can help you find your nearest, locally distilled cachaças.





In other news, Google LatLong revealed today that Street View of the Amazon rainforest is currently being captured. So very soon, you’ll be able to float down the Amazon and Rio Negro Rivers of northwest Brazil and experience some of the most remote and biodiverse areas in the world with Google Maps Street View.



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The 2010 Brazilian Census on Google Maps

The Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística has created an application that allows you to browse the results of the 2010 Brazilian census on a Google Map.

Using the application you can click on a census tract on the map and view demographic information collected in the census. The information includes the population, the percentage of men and women and the percentage of different age groups in the population.

Censo2010

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Brazilian Bike Routes on Google Maps

En Vou de Bike

En Vou de Bike is a Brazilian bike route generator with some nice features.

En Vou de Bike uses Google Maps to provide bike directions. To add a starting point to the map you can just drag the green bike icon onto the map. To add your destination you can drag the red 'pare' icon to the location you wish to end up.

Your route is then calculated and displayed on the map and the directions are shown in the map sidebar. Each route generated is saved and you can browse the already generated routes on the Mapas e Rotas.

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Brazilian Gas Prices on Google Maps

Meu Combustivel

This Google Map shows you the price of gas at Brazilian gas stations using data from the Agência Nacional do Petróleo, Gás Natural e Biocombustíveis (ANP). It is possible to search the map by location and by type of fuel.

The map markers automatically display the current price at each gas station and indicate the company that owns the station.

Preco dos Combustiveis

This Google Map shows the current (updated weekly) gas prices at gas stations in Brazil.

Gas Stations are displayed on the Google Map and are listed in the map sidebar in order of gas price. If you click on a gas station in the map sidebar it will be highlighted on the map. If you click on the map marker the current gas prices for the station will be displayed.

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Brazilian Sports Facilities on Google Maps

Gatorade Maps

Here's a nice idea from the sports drink Gatorade. The company have created a useful Google Map to help Brazilian's find their nearest sports facilities.

Using the map it is possible to find the nearest gyms, sports centres, walks and bike routes around a location. You can filter the results by location and by the type of sporting activity you are interested in.

To promote Gatorade the map also displays the nearest retail outlets that sell the sports drink.

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Follow Canarinho on Google Maps

Copa do Mundo 2010 Tweets Map

If you are a Brazil or Portugal fan and you want to keep up with the latest news and comments about your team then you should bookmark Copa do Mundo 2010.

This Brazilian Google Map shows Tweets about the 2010 World Cup. The map shows Tweets that use a number of hashtags in Portuguese, such as #copa, therefore the majority of the Tweets that appear on the map are also in Portuguese.

The map also features a widget from Fifa showing all the latest news and results for the Brazilian World Cup team.

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Rio and São Paulo on Google Maps

Rider - Enjoy the Ride

This beautiful looking Google Map contains lots of information about what to see and do in the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

The points of information on the map can be filtered by eating & drinking, culture, leisure, shopping and nightclubs. Clicking on any of the map markers opens an information window with details and photographs of the selected establishment.

Users of the map can vote each listed location 'up' or 'down'. Users can even vote for which Brazilian city they would next like to see have its own Rider Google Map.

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Visit Brazil YouTube Channel & Google Map

Visit Brazil YouTube

The Brazilian Tourist Board and YouTube have today released a brand channel on YouTube to promote tourism in Brazil. The channel features over 85 Brazilian tourist videos geo-tagged with Google Maps.

The videos have been placed in a number of categories, including Sun and Beach, Culture, Ecotourism, Sport and Business and Events. When you select a video the location of the video is shown on the Google Map.

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Brazilian Google Maps Mash-Up Roundup (9/09)

Acheibr

Acheibr is a Portuguese language Google Maps mash-up of Brazilian places in the US. The site tags Brazilian restaurants and other Brazilian businesses operating in the US.

It is possible to search the businesses by location and category. The results of a search are tagged on a Google Map and listed in a sidebar.

Bogomaps

Apparently there are quite a few ghosts in Sao Paolo. Luckily Bogomaps has created this map of all the haunted places.

Maparadar

This Google Maps mash-up has geo-tagged over 2000 traffic radars in Brazil. The radars are tagged on the map with markers that display the speed restriction at that location or a set of traffic signals if the radar is located at a junction.

The Instituto de Pesquisas e Projetos Sociais e Tecnológicos
IPSO have produced a number of Google Maps mash-ups:

• Mapa Dos Pontos De Cultura
• This map of cultural hotspots in Brazil has many search options. Each tagged marker comes with a lot of information (many with rich content, such as photos, audio and videos). It is also possible to export the search results to CSV and to Google Earth.
• ONID - Observatório Nacional de Inclusão Digital
• This mash-up is a map of telecenters in Brazil.
• Mapa das Rádios Comunitárias
• This map is a mash-up showing the location of community radios stations in Brazil.
• Mapa GLBT
• Mapa GLBT is a map of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transexual associations in Brazil.
  

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Big News: Google Maps street maps for ALL of Brasil!

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The Google Maps API Blog reports that street maps are now available for Brasil!

From the post (Posted by Bruno Diniz, Software Engineer, Google Brasil):
Welcome to an exciting new world of online maps for Brasil, where we have recently added road data for the entire country. That's right! Now you can see all major highways, roads in hybrid mode as well as parks, water, landmarks and other attractions. Check out Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. While the Google Maps API doesn't yet support full address search or business search in Brasil, users can search for any major city in Brasil. With this exciting news, we wanted to give Google Maps API developers a head start on building cool Brasil mashups.

Brasil joins the US, Canada, Japan, UK & Ireland (and most other parts of Europe), Australia and New Zealand as countries with street mapping. If you've created a mashup for the country of Brasil that uses these new street maps be sure to post a comment on this post to let others know! Get ready for the Brasilian Google Maps mashup explosion! :)

Other news today from the Google Maps Team:

Improved Maps tiles for Japan - now supports hybrid street/satellite viewing (see this example).
Performance improvements in Revision 2.64 of API v2 - This post comes with a friendly reminder from the API folks: "..Please upgrade your site to use API v2, if you haven't already. We plan to shut down API v1 in a month."
New Satellite Imagery and Performance Improvements (Sep.18)

Google Maps tools for Brasil

Here are some Google Maps tools developed for those using the service in Brasil (or Brazil):

GoToGoogleMaps - open Google Maps on a given lat/long
GoToGoogleEarth - open Google Earth on a given lat/long
SeAchando - to find the coordinates of latitude/longitude
CavaCava - where do you will arrive if you dig dig and dig?

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