Burp's mission is to help you find the best restaurants for specific types of dish.
Currently Burp has four Google Maps, two maps showing the restaurants serving the best burgers in the San Francisco Bay and Los Angeles areas and two maps showing the restaurants serving the best Ramen in the same two areas.
After clicking on a restaurant map marker you can click through to read other users' reviews of the restaurant, the restaurant's Yelp rating, the number of Facebook 'likes' and the number of foursquare check-ins.
Ideum create technology-enhanced visitor experiences for museums and other public settings. They have just created a multitouch exhibit for the California Science Center.
The exhibit consists of an interactive multitouch enabled Google Map with KML overlays allowing visitors to pan and zoom around the L.A. Basin while learning about the weather patterns, wind currents, geologic make-up, and vegetative patterns that have shaped the landscape of southern California.
Thematic overlays illustrate on the map phenomenon such as fire risk, water supply, Santa Ana wind patterns and fault lines. Geo-tagged photo and video content, managed by Flickr, is displayed across the map. Visitors can explore this content through the use of intuitive gestures, building the basin's story through discovery. Flipping the images over reveals embedded metadata to assist the exhibit narrative.
The exhibit uses Ideum's multitouch and multiuser table platform, which allows several visitors to explore content simultaneously. Using multitouch gestures, users can scale, zoom, and pass virtual objects around the table.
Los Angeles Storm Map According to the California Geological Society more than 100 Californians have been killed by debris flows during the past 25 years. Slopes left denuded by wildfires in California are especially susceptible to "mudslides" during and immediately after major rainstorms.
Just such a rainstorm yesterday caused a mudslide in the La Cañada Flintridge area. The Los Angeles Times have created two Google Maps in response to the latest mudslides. The second of the two maps on the LA Times website shows the areas considered by the U.S. Geological Survey to be most at risk of mudslides.
Google Map of the LA Marathon Route The official site of the Los Angeles marathon has produced a Google Map showing the route of today's course. The route map shows the start and finishing points and uses numbered map markers to indicate drinking points along the route.
The official site of the marathon has also produced a Google Map Spectator Guide. The map shows Entertainment Centers on the route. The Entertainment Centers are neighborhood street festivals. All of them are sure to be great places to watch today's run. The map also shows you where live bands will be playing and where cheerleaders will be performing.
HyperCities With content generated by architects, historians, urban sociologists, and archaeologists, as well as the general public, HyperCities is a Google Maps mashup of historical maps of some famous world's cities. Currently the site has a series of historical maps for Berlin, New York, Los Angeles and Tel Aviv.
For each city the historical maps are listed under the Google Maps interface. Clicking on a year loads the historical map for that year as an overlay on top of Google Maps. The map markers on the map can also be viewed by their historical relevance. At the top of the map is a timeline slider which can be used to load map markers for any historical period.
Cartifact Maps Cartifact Maps, has today released a major update to their visually enhanced version of Google Maps. The new release enhances the current Los Angeles maps and adds maps of Manhattan.
Here is a short screencast showing off Cartifact's amazing lens tool:
In LA, Cartifacts have assembled an incredibly detailed map of 1887 LA and added it to their innovative lens tool. In NYC, there is a building level detailed map of Manhattan below Central Park. The lens tool for New York features a Historic tab with an 1865 Sanitary & Topographic map for the Council of Hygiene which shows all the original water courses of Manhattan Island and is from the David Rumsey Map Collection. Another new addition to the lens tool is an Oblique 3D Buildings view rendered by Union Design for CB Richard Ellis.
Cartifact Maps beta v1.1 launch coincides with this year's Where 2.0 conference in San Jose where Cartifact Labs Director Bruce Daniel will be conducting a workshop on "Thinking about Map Design" and presenting to the conference a personal survey of visually rich maps.
The Los Angeles Times online edition (LATimes.com) has launched a new feature called the The Homicide Map. The map is a mashup of Google Maps and The Homicide Report - an online blog-style effort by Times reporter Jill Leovy to chronicle every homicide in Los Angeles County in 2007 (As of July 30, The Times has counted 496 homicides in L.A. County). The Homicide Map helps users explore the data at a broad level while the Report itself is more focussed on individual homicides.
The Homicide Map features:
Filter by victim's race, gender, cause of death, and other parameters
Find homicides near an address and/or ZIP code
View photos of victims and link to Leovy's reports
RSS feeds or Google Earth viewing
Crime maps were among the first types of Google Maps hacks to hit the scene even before Google released the Maps API. Adrian Holovaty's ChicagoCrime.org spawned a number of other crime and sex offender maps mashups that I have cataloged over the past few years here on Google Maps Mania.
