The European Championships on Street View

Today the UEFA European Football Championship starts. You can visit all eight stadiums, in the host nations of Poland and Ukraine, with Google Maps Street View.

The opening game of the tournament sees one of the host nations, Poland take on Greece at the National Stadium, Warsaw.


The final of the tournament will be held at the NSC Olimpiyskiy (Olympic Stadium) in Kyiv:


The other stadia to be explored in Ukraine are the Donbass Arena, in Donetsk, the Metalist Stadium in Kharkiv and the Arena Lviv. In Poland you can also visit the stadia in Poznan, Gdansk and Wroclaw.

Google Maps at Home and at Work

Street View Now Available in Estonia and Latvia

Google have made a number of announcements concerning Google Maps today. They have officially announced the availability of Street View in the Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia that Google Maps Mania reported on yesterday.

Save Home & Work Locations

Google has also added a feature to Google Maps that allows users to save home and work locations. If you go to the 'My Places' tab in Google Maps you now can save your home and work locations.

Once your locations are saved you can use 'home' or 'work' when searching for directions to quickly add those locations and avoid having to type in the full address.

New Google Places API Features

For Google Maps API users Google has added keyword search and rank by distance to the Google Places API.

The Google Places API filters places by 100 different categories, such as restaurant, clothing_store, and bar. The keyword search feature allows users to search for places based on an arbitrary text string. For example, instead of just searching for restaurants you can now search for Mexican restaurants etc.

The rank by distance feature allows map developers the option to rank searched for venues and places by distance from a set location. This means you can now offer users the choice of viewing search results both by prominence and distance.

There is a good demo map showing both keyword search and rank by distance in action here.

Polish UEFA 2012 Stadiums in Street View

The Official Polish Google Blog has announced the release of Street View for the four Polish soccer stadium to be used for this summer's UEFA European Football Championship. Now you can use Street View to get a sense of what it is like to be down on the pitch looking up at the towering stands.

The Forgotten Poland on Google Maps

Forgotten.pl is a Polish website dedicated to abandoned buildings, rail-roads, underground tunnels, castles, military sites and any other locations that have long been neglected.

The site has a huge database of user submitted abandoned locations. If you are keen to explore the abandoned Poland it is probably best to explore the site using the category filter. Each category (buildings, military, castles etc) has its own Google Map that allows users to search for individual entries by location.

Poland Google Maps Mashup Roundup

Maperia

Maperia is a local search site for Poland. Maperia uses Google Maps to help users search for local businesses. Users can also use Maperia to upload photos and movies and comment on locations.

To search for a local business users can enter a category, e.g. 'restaurants', and a location. The results of a search are then returned on the map. If you click on the map marker of any of the returned results its details are loaded in the map sidebar.

Quick links are provided at the top of the map to users' saved 'Locations', 'Photos', and 'city maps'.

Mapia

Whether you want to share a location to meet or to show people where you have been Mapia is a great way to share a location with your friends. Mapia allows users to add a photograph of a location to a Google Map and add a short description.

Users don't have to register with Mapia to add photos and comments. All you need to do is click on the map and upload a photograph and add a comment. You are then given a link to your location on the map.

You can share your link with friends by social network or by e-mail. When your friends open your link they will be taken to a Google Map of your saved location, with your photograph and with your comment.

Poznaj Google Maps API
Poznaj is a great Polish language tutorial for creating mashups with the Google Maps API. The site has sections for v2 and v3 of the Google Maps API and links to other resources and guides.

The site includes examples of Google Maps throughout the tutorial so users are always able to check their results against the original map.

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Graves of Krakow on Google Maps

Internetowy Lokalizator Grobów

This Google Maps mashup serves as a grave locator for Krakow in Poland. The map lets you search for the grave of any individual and will take you to the deceased's specific grave plot.

The map includes overlays for all of Krakow's cemeteries that shows the individual grave plots within each cemetery. The search box to the left of the map allows the user to search for a specific person's grave. Users are able to define a date range to help narrow the search for popular Polish names.

The map also includes bus-stops for each of the cemeteries, with bus times, and shows the locations of all cemetery entrances.

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Poland Google Maps Mashup Roundup

Mapness

Mapness is a Google Maps mashup which you can use to share your travel experiences. Using Mapness you can create an online travel journal and show on a Google Map where you have been and what you have seen.

It is possible to add photos and videos, mark the best spots to visit and then share your map with your friends! Mapness also creates some interesting statistics for your journey, such as the total distance travelled and the duration of the journey.

Mapness is also available in three languages, English, Polish and French.

Wroclaw Tram Map

The Wroclaw Tram Map shows the 24 tram routes and stops in this Polish city. The map sidebar includes check boxes for each of the tram routes and for the tram stops. It is therefore possible to view any combination of routes on the map at any time.

Clicking on any of the selected routes opens an information window containing a link to that route's timetable.

Mapa Warszawy

This point of interest map for Warsaw seems to have mapped just about anything you might wish to find. Here's the list of categories:

Clubs, monuments, pubs, restaurants, theatres, cafes, shopping, sports venues, education, transportation, parks, police, hairdressing salons, clinics, shops, hotels, doctors, administration, property, services, dentists, cemeteries, religious buildings, entertainment, pizzerias, hospitals, military, offices, medicine, libraries and banks.

Clicking on any of these categories loads the points of interest for that section. With Mapa Warszawy you will always be able to find what you need in the Polish capital.

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Google Maps for Poland

Google Maps for Poland



Google today launched Google Maps for Poland. Polish speakers can now search Google Maps in Polish. Polish language support has also gone live for Google Maps Mobile.

Polish developers of Google Maps mashups will be pleased to hear that the Google Maps API also now provides local search for Poland.

Polish Google Map mashups previously featured on Google Maps Mania

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Poland Google Maps Mashup Roundup

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Great Warsaw Google Maps Mashup - Students of Warsaw University of Technology created the first and most comprehensive Google Maps mashups for capital of Poland - Warsaw. It shows locations of popular places like theaters, cinemas, restaurants, pubs, gyms, etc. It is combined with detailed place descriptions, ratings and a comment system. Currently it's in Polish language only but the customized icons should allow it to be self-explanatory. Use it if you live in Warsaw or if you are traveling to this great world city!

Karol Papala of the Polish Google Maps blog Google Maps w Polsce helps us out with a roundup of other new Polish mashups:

Miejsce.info (Check here for the English version) - This is a site where you can create your own map, send a map link to your friends and embed it within your webpage.

Miejsca.net (Check here for the English version) - Site where you can add places, events, photos and movies on map.

Wrocek road repairs - See the main Wrocek.pl site for a social calendar of events in Wroclaw (Poland). Big database of places (pubs, clubs, theaters, cinemas, hotels).

Lodz City Map - Similar to Wrocek.pl built around city of Lodz (Wroclaw).

GeoBlog.pl - Site where you can make your own trip/travel blog.

OSobie.pl - Social site where you can make your own profile, add friends and gather in groups. In this mashup you can search people who live next to you.

• Wikimapia: Poland (in Polish here..)
• Sightseeing with Google Satellite Maps: Poland
• Tagzania: Poland
• GoogleSightseeing.com: Poland
• Maplandia: Poland
• Platial: Poland

Go Wykop this post! :)

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