Dublin Bikes on Google Maps

Dublin Bikes uses Google Maps to show the location of all the hire network's bike stations.

It is possible to search the map by location to find the nearest bike hire stations to your location. If you click on a map marker you can view how many bikes are currently available and how many free stands are available.

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DHO: DIscovery

Ireland's Digital Humanities Project is using Google Maps and the Simile Time-Line as a way to browse Irish digital collections and resources.

You can select to view a collection from the drop-down menu. Once you have selected a collection you can choose to browse the collection in a Google Maps view or on a time-line.

The map view obviously depends on whether location data has been added to individual collections.

DHO Discovery Interface

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Find a House in Ireland with Google Maps

MyHome.ie

MyHome.ie is a nicely designed Google Maps mashup to display property for sale in Ireland.

You can search the map for property by location, price, type of property and by the number of bedrooms. The returned results are then displayed on the map. If you click on a property's map marker you can view a photo and a brief description. The information window also contains a link to view the full details of the property.

MyHome.ie also allows you to search for rental and commercial property in Ireland. There is even a function to view overseas property, which shows properties on the market mainly in the south of France and northern Spain.

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Create a SatNav Tour with Google Maps

MapMe.ie

MapMe.ie is a SatNav tour generator that can help you plan a travel itinerary in Ireland. MapMe.ie allows you to select tourist destinations from all over Ireland and download them to your SatNav for free.

Using a Google Maps interface users can search for destinations. It is possible to search the map by category from a drop down menu. The categories include historical, cultural and food and drink. It is also possible to search for locations by clicking on the map.

Click once on the map and an information window will open allowing you to search for local points of information by a specified distance around the selected location. You can then click on any of the displayed destinations and add them to your SatCart.

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Twitter Map of Irish Pubs

The Tap Map

The Tap Map is an Irish website that utilises the power of the Twitter and Google Maps API's to visually display where people are drinking in Belfast. All a user needs to do is Tweet their drinking location from a bar in the city using their regular Twitter account and they will see themselves appear on an overall map of Belfast.

The Tap Map currently updates every hour (whilst in Beta). To add yourself to the map just Tweet @thetapmap and tag the name of the bar, for example #stiffkitten. Using the data provided by users The Tap Map is then able to provide a list of the current hottest places to drink in Belfast.

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St Patrick's Day on Google Maps

Happy holiday's to all our Irish visitors!

Here are a number of Irish Maps To Help Get You in the Mood

IRELAND: Look Around!

LookAroundIreland features maps of castles, scenery, celtic and ancient monuments. The site also has a map of some gorgeous 360 degree virtual tours of the Emerald Isle.

Brú na Bóinne

A video map of a complex of Irish Neolithic chamber tombs.

• Google Sightseeing - a collection of interesting Google Map satellite views of Ireland.
• ProperPint - it wouldn't be St Patrick's Day without a drink. This map reviews and plots Dublin pubs.
• Just Routes - this map will work out your Dublin route via public transport (in other words leave the car at home).

Joyce Walks


The project Joyce Walks is a Google Maps mashup which remaps routes from James Joyce's Ulysses to any other city, generating maps which users can use to recreate Bloomsday anywhere in the world. Participants can then generate an embeddable map for their own website or blog.

More Ireland Maps

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Happy Bloomsday on Google Maps

Bloomsday (Irish: Lá Bhloom) is a commemoration observed annually on 16 June in Dublin and elsewhere to celebrate the life of Irish writer James Joyce and relive the events in his novel Ulysses, all of which took place on the same day in Dublin in 1904. The name derives from Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of Ulysses, and 16 June was the date of Joyce's first outing with his wife-to-be, Nora Barnacle, when they walked to the Dublin village of Ringsend (thank you Wikipedia).

Joyce Walks


The project Joyce Walks is a Google Maps mashup which remaps routes from James Joyce's Ulysses to any other city, generating maps which users can use to recreate Bloomsday anywhere in the world. Participants can then generate an embeddable map for their own website or blog.

Joyce Walks have produced a map of Bloom's day in Dublin. Each location that he visits during the day is tagged on the map. Each tag contains the text from the novel and is accompanied by a short panoramic video of the location.

However Joyce Walks is a also a tool which generates walking maps based on routes from James Joyce's Ulysses in any city in the world using Google Maps. The system prints maps to be used as the basis of walks exploring the city of your choice and generates maps that include pictures and videos.

James Joyce Walking Tour
The James Joyce Walking Tour maps a stroll around central Dublin, concentrating on places that are associated with James Joyce and the characters in his novels and stories. The tour starts at the home of Leopold Bloom at No. 7 Eccles Street and ends at Grafton Street.

Each stage of the walk is tagged on the map and includes extensive notes about the location's relevance to either Joyce or his stories.

Ulysses and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Google Book search (under the 'about this book' tab) includes a Google Map of places mentioned in Joyce's Ulysees and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

A KML of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man also exists, which can also be viewed on Google Maps.

You Might Also Enjoy these Dublin Maps on Bloomsday

Just Routes - public transport route planner for Dublin
Dart Maps - real time tracking of trains in Dublin.

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Ireland Google Maps Mashup Roundup - May 28/08

Northern Ireland Food Review

The Northern Ireland Food Review is a useful tool for finding restaurants in Northern Ireland. To start a search you simply enter your postcode, how far you wish to travel and what type of food you are looking for and all the nearby food outlets are tagged on a Google Map.

A shaded circle is also shown on the map indicating the distance you are prepared to travel. Clicking on a tagged restaurant opens an information window with a photograph and the address of the restaurant. There is also a link to a review of the restaurant.

Ireland Reserve Defence Forces
Ireland Reserve Defence Forces is a map of army and navy reserve units. The map shows all three territorial brigade areas in Ireland, with the ability to zoom in and get contact information and directions to each individual unit. The units themselves are indicated on the map by the unit's shield.

Via: Silicon Republic

Town and Country


The Town and Country website has produced a nice Google Map showing all the bed & breakfasts in Ireland.

Clicking on a tagged B&B will take you to a review of that establishment. Each individual review also includes a small Google Map showing the exact location of the bed and breakfast.

Casualty Figures
Casualty Figures is a map showing the number of patients awaiting hospital admission in Irish hospitals. 35 hospital locations in Ireland are shown on the map. The figures are for 2005-2006 so the map won't help you to discover the present number of patients awaiting hospital admission but can help you find a hospital in Ireland.

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St Patrick's Day

Google Maps have celebrated St Patrick's Day by changing the streetview icon to a little green man standing on a shamrock. Although St Patrick's Day is normally March 17th the Roman Catholic Church are observing St. Patrick's Day on March 15th this year. However to confuse the issue even further Dublin's St Patrick's Day parade is taking place, as always, on March 17th.

Some Irish Maps To Get You in the Mood

• IRELAND: Look Around! - LookAroundIreland features maps of castles, scenery, celtic and ancient monuments. Links to 360 degree virtual tours to give you a preview of each location.
• Brú na Bóinne - a video map of a complex of Irish Neolithic chamber tombs.
• Google Sightseeing - a collection of interesting Google Map satellite views of Ireland.
• ProperPint - it wouldn't be St Patrick's Day without a drink. This map reviews and plots Dublin pubs.
• Dart Maps - one of the first real-time transport maps. This map of the trains in Dublin will help you plan that pub crawl.
• Just Routes - this map will work out your Dublin route via public transport (in other words leave the car at home).
• More Ireland Maps

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Google Maps public transport mashup for Dublin

JustRoutes.com for Dublin, Ireland:


Vinny Glennon from Useamap fame has created a new Google Maps public transportation mashup for people of Dublin, Ireland called JustRoutes.com. He explains how the idea for JustRoutes came to be: "..This came about as people in our city know where they want to go, but they have no idea how to get there using the existing public transportation network. For example, the only online help for the city buses are here." JustRoutes lets you select a start and end point by clicking on the map, then it calculates a specific route to take between those two points. It links to timetable info, provides a fare and time estimate and even tells you how far the starting transit vehicle is from your starting point and how far you'll need to go to reach your end destination after using the last transit vehicle. If you're traversing the city of Dublin anytime soon JustRoutes is for you! :)

Related:
Dartmaps Dublin
Google Transit

New Ireland Google Maps Jobs/Employment Mashup: JobShop.ie - (More info)
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New Google Maps mashups: UK, Ireland & France

UK: Football Stadium Guide + Map:

Here's a nice, simple mashup of all the football stadiums in the UK, with directions from any UK postcode and links off to the nearest hotels, restaurants and pubs on Google Maps.

UK: "Planning Disaster" Mashup - A mashup by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) to raise awareness of proposed major infrastructure developments (such as airports, tidal barrages, and nuclear power sites) that may be built following a proposed change to UK planning law.

UK: Flight Price Maps Mashup - Allows you to search for the best prices on flights originating from the UK to any continent.

FRANCE: Google Maps Hotel Guide [French site here] - - This is a great Google Maps mashup for those of you visiting France! It features detailed maps for cities and regions to help you find the locations of all hotels, including the ability to check availability! See this example map for the city of Paris..

FRANCE: French Google Maps satellite viewing site - Links to specific world locations with a French user interface. [via]

IRELAND: Look Around! - LookAroundIreland features maps of castles, scenery, celtic and ancient monuments. Links to 360 degree virtual tours to give you a preview of each location.

IRELAND: Saving the Tara Valley in Meath - Once the seat of the High Kings of Ireland, One blogger and Google mapper draws attention to the issue on this blog and through Google Maps/Earth and various Google Maps tools.

Expanded Country roundups available for each of these countries. Click the country label below for many more mashups from the UK, Ireland and France!
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Google Maps: Local suggestions, Ireland & Hong Kong searching

Google Maps Popular Local Search Suggestions (US and Japan) - Here is a useful and interesting new feature added to Google Maps recently that will suggest popular queries made by other Google Maps users for a given city/town. Use this feature to see the most popular local searches for a city and learn about what to do and what to see! It's easy to use - simply type in the city name (big or small) in the "Search the Map" field and wait for the list of suggestions to be listed! For example, here are the popular suggestions for the city of Boston, MA: parking garage, mbta, quincy market, fenway park, john f kennedy presidential library, seaport hotel, avalon, logan airport, legal seafood, shaws. It should give you ideas of what to look for or plan to take in.. It's like a personal Google Maps concierge! :)

New countries can now be searched on Google Maps (Ireland & Hong Kong) - Google Maps users around the world can now search for addresses, place names and points of interest in Ireland and Hong Kong!

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Dublin - interactive map of the Dublin Bus Network

DublinCityBus.com:

James Decraene (graduate student) realized in his spare-time the website www.dublincitybus.com. "I did this website because nothing as such was available and that was not helpful for the Dubliners and its herd of tourists", says James. Interesting enough, James doesn't provide the entire bus network yet, but is calling for help from fellow-Dubliners to draw all of the routes of the Dublin Bus System. So far, over 50% of all routes have been realized. Who's helping James out?

(Check out Dartmaps for another fantastic Dublin Transit Google Maps Mashup!)

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Ireland Google Maps Mashup Roundup

Dublin Crime Mashup:

This new Google Maps mashup maps all homicides in Dublin, Ireland from 2004 onwards. Rather than mashing up with a database of crimes it uses news reports as its primary data source. Geo developer Matthew Sammon explains that crime stats in Dublin are very "coarse-grained". He goes on to mention that other types of crime may be added in the future. Other Crime and Sex Offender mashups can be found here..

Patients awaiting hospital admission - Figures are from April 2005 to April 2006 for hospitals in Ireland. [Via ProgrammableWeb]

Other Previously Mentioned Mashups:

DartMaps - Live locations of Dublin commuter trains!
Daft.ie - Ireland property search on Google Maps
Dublin RoadWatch
A good list of other Irish Google Maps mashups
Nearby.org.uk - Google Maps mashup with many websites with data for Ireland
The Bono Probability Positioning System - Read my post about the Google Maps tool that will help you find the U2 star! :)
Wikimapia: Ireland
GoogleSightseeing.com: Ireland
Sightseeing with Google Maps: Ireland

Euro Google Maps Mashup Roundup

Ireland:
- Ireland Petrol Price Database
- Daft.ie (Ireland's largest property site) now uses Google Maps [via]
France:
- 100 Mountain Biking tracks in the south of France
Germany:
- Netzwelt.de uses Google Maps
- ZACK Bookmaps
UK:
- Archeology Data Service integrates with Google Maps

UK and Ireland petrol prices on Google Maps

With the price of petrol in the UK and Ireland reaching record levels, some new Google Maps mashups will help you to find the station that has the cheapest:

MapEire: Cheap Petrol in Dublin - This mashup shows petrol prices for stations that have been submitted within the last 7 days. Stations are laid out on the map and when you click on them detailed information about the station pops up. You can change this information easily for future visitors to the map as well. MapEire contains information for Dublin carparks as well.


PetrolPrices.com (free reg. required) - This is a petrol price listing website that has integrated with Google Maps to show you the stations with cheap petrol around the UK. The site requires free registration in order to serve you relevant information about your location and the map even displays the icons showing you the station logo (BP, Shell, Murco, Total, Elf, Gulf etc...)



North American readers: Check out the "Cheap Gas" mashup.