Finnish Restaurants on Google Maps

Eat.fi is a comprehensive Google Maps based guide to restaurants in the biggest towns and cities in Finland.

It is possible to filter the restaurants shown on the map by type of restaurant, number of stars, cost of meals and by keyword (e.g. 'steak', fish' etc). Restaurants that are currently open are shown on the map by a green map marker.

If you mouse-over a restaurant's marker you can view quick ratings of the food, experience and value. The information window also reveals the type of food served and whether the restaurant is currently open. If you click on the marker you will be taken to full user reviews and ratings.

Eat.fi is available in Finnish, Swedish and English.

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Europe's Scenic Drives on Google Maps

Neste Green 100

Neste Oil in Finland have created this Google Map so that drivers can submit their favourite scenic drives. The map features scenic drives not just in Finland but throughout Europe.

Users can click on a map marker to view details of the submitted routes and can vote for their favourite drives. In the bottom left hand corner of the map the top ten drives, as voted by users of the map, are displayed. Clicking on any of the top ten drives will open the information window for the drive.

The map is in Finnish only.

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Finnish Google Maps Mashup Roundup

Intermediator

Intermediator is a website to help Finnish businesses find suitable office premises. Using Google Maps Intermediator’s clients can search specific areas for premises and filter by type and size.

Viva Premises
Viva Premises offers a similar solution for businesses looking for premises. It uses Google Maps to show the locations of office space available to rent or buy.

Kokouspaikat.com

The Kokouspaikat.com website uses Google Maps to help organisations find suitable conference venues in Finland. The site includes a multifaceted search engine and uses Google Maps to show the location of each venue in its database.

World Vision
Finland’s World Vision aims to help develop and enhance the living standards in the developing world. World Vision uses Google Maps to highlight areas in the world where the organisation has established projects. For example, here is the Google Map showing World Vision's projects in India.

All the maps above were produced with the help of Finnish Internet marketing company Really?

Tilannehuone.fi

Tilannehuone (Finnish for situation room) is a website tracking fires, car accidents, animal resues and environmental accidents in Finland.

Different map markers are used for each type of incident and each incident is mapped with a time and date.

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Street View Arrives in Norway & Finland

Google have released Street View imagery in Norway and Finland. There also seems to have been lots more Street View imagery added in Canada (including some ski runs taken by the Street View snowmobile), the USA, and Mexico.


Stortinget, Oslo


Uspenski Cathedral, Helsinki


Helsinki Cathedral

In Whistler, Canada there seem to have been a lot of ski runs added. I assume these must be related to the upcoming Winter Olympics. In these Street View images Pegman is wearing his ski gear.

Check out this amazing panorama from the top of London Mountain.


Whistler, Canada


Whistler, Canada

Hat-tip: Google Earth Blog

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New Scandanavian Google Maps Mash-Ups

Berlingske Tidende

Berlingske Tidende is a Danish newspaper that has produced a good example of an interactive crime map. Readers of the newspaper are able to tag crimes on the map and detail how well the police respond to the crime. Since launching in May over seventy crimes have been added to the map.

The newspaper uses the map not only to map crimes in Denmark but as a source of news stories for the newspaper and two full-time reporters are assigned to the project. Although the paper stress that they are only reporting what their readers tell them they also say that "our journalists read through all the reports to check their credibility."

Via: Journalism.co.uk

Korrespondenterna

From Sweden comes this foreign correspondents map from Sveriges Television. With the map it is possible to locate the base country of each of the television channel's foreign correspondents. The correspondents' locations are tagged on the map and each tag contains a photograph of the reporter.

Huspriser

Huspriser is a searchable database of real estate in Norway. With the map it is possible to search for properties by region. The results of a search are returned with the properties tagged on a Google Map and listed in descending order of price above the map.

Lennot.nu
Lennot.nu is a simple but effective Finnish flights and aviation site that uses Google Maps to show all official airports in Finland. All the airports' locations are tagged on a Google Map and are also listed in a sidebar beside the map.

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Google Maps News for 2007-06-23

News..

Geocoding has recently launched in:

• Norway
• Denmark
• Finland
• Russia (for 24 cities)
• ..Back on May 8th geocoding was launched for Brazil, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary and Portugal

..This means you can now search for cities, towns and street addresses in these countries on Google Maps! Local business listings and a country specific domain name have also been added for:

Sweden - http://maps.google.se
Denmark - http://maps.google.dk (Check out Soren Johannessen's post about this..)

Other News:

Google acquires photo sharing Google Maps mashup Panoramio:

Google Maps Mania has long followed the introduction of Panoramio, the photo sharing site that lets you map your photos using both Google Maps and Google Earth. The Panoramio team is excited to announce that Google has acquired their company! Check out the blog post link above for all the details - And be sure to check out Panoramio!

New feature: Add your reviews to businesses on Google Maps - Do you love a certain pizza place or want to tell the world about a restaurant that makes a mean cheeseburger? Tell the world about it using a new feature on Google Maps - User business reviews. From the Google LatLong Blog: "..Search for your favorite places and click on the "More Info" link. From there, click on "Write a Review" to start giving your two cents."

Google Maps Tour Updated! - Take a look at the new tour on Google Maps to learn how to make use of all its features!

..Click the "Google Maps" label below for other recent Google Maps News!

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Watch 2 transit systems live on Google Maps (Finland & USA)

Live Real-time Helsinki Public Transport Map:

Long time readers of Google Maps Mania will know that I get pretty excited when I see Google Maps mashups showing the real-time GPS-equipped locations of things like trains.. or people. This next mashup takes the locations of buses and trams in the Helsinki City transport network and plots their real-time location to a Google Map for you to watch, live! Click on the vehicle and and the info-window gives you the option to show the route this it's traveling, plot the stops and also center the map on that bus/tram as it makes its way around the city. Watch the times to each stop as well. It's an invaluable tool to Helsinkians or tourists, as well as fun and addictive to watch for the rest of us! Very nicely done! [Via Digg]

UCSD Bus Map - Tom Trottier dropped me a line with the link to this Google Map which plots the location of a UCSD (University of California, San Diego) shuttle bus winding its way around the campus there. Writes Tom: "When my son asked me to look it up, I saw the bus being pulled off and sent to a maintenance garage, where it winked out when they turned the GPS off." Click the bus and the map centers on it to move along as it drives. Info includes the exact time (to the second) when the location was last updated, the heading it's on and a nice meter that shows the percentage of the bus that's currently full of passengers. This looks to be a pilot project by a company called Syncromatics..

DartMaps in Dublin, Ireland is another fantastic example of a live transit map (and was one of the first)..

Recent and related to transit:

• Google Maps adds transit data for dozens of cities worldwide! - Google Maps Mania, June 7/07
• Google Transit Planner - Recently updated to include San Diego & Reno (USA) and Japan (All regional and national rail networks, domestic airlines and ferries)

• Google Transit Data Feed Project - Open Source Software project aimed to gather open source tools which generate transit data in the Google Transit data feed format from existing transit industry data formats.
• New user-created transit Google Maps mashups from: Moscow, New Jersey, Los Angeles --> More transit mashups here..

8 new Google Maps mashups for European countries

Sweden: Study in Sweden Google Map - StudyInSweden is the Swedish government's official portal for students thinking of studying in Sweden. There are around 300 master's programmes taught in English at Swedish universities, and they are free for anybody to apply to and attend -- including foreign students. StudyInSweden exists to tell the world that you can study for free in English in Sweden (if you're good enough), and now it's just become easier to find out just where these universities are through this Google Maps mashup which helps you locate where these universities are located. Start with this page or click, then click on the link above to view the Google Map. Google Earth functionality also exists. [Via Steff at OgleEarth]

Belgium: Election Results - JRoller.com points us to this next mashup from Belgium which maps the countries recent election results. Drill down from main cities, then regions within the cites show graphed results. I like the zoom and map-view toggling icons which are used. (Belgian/French language)[via]

Belgium: Where to Tango - It takes two to tango, and with this map you can find out where to go in major cities across Belgium. Google Earth and YouTube is also integrated. (English language) [via]
All of Europe: Gay Travel - Maps for Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Cologne, Granada, Lisbon, Madrid, Prague and Rome. Look for "city map" on each page. (English language)
All of Europe: Hotels - French language Hotel site for various cities in Europe. [Via ProgrammableWeb]
Greece: Mountain Refuges - Google Maps is combined with the Hellenic National Tourist Organization containing information about mountain refuges in Greece. Links to tourist site details also included. (bilingual English and Greek). [Via ProgrammableWeb]
Finland: Daily Gigs and clubs - Listings for Helsinki. (Finnish language)
Poland: City of Torun Map - (Polish language) [Via ProgrammableWeb]

..Coming Soon: Country Roundups for the UK, France, Spain, Germany, Italy and The Netherlands