Share Your Kisses with Google Maps

The Toronto Kiss Map wants to know about your kisses. Whether it's a first kiss, a last kiss, a hot and heavy kiss or just a peck on the check of Aunty Maureen then Toronto Kiss wants to know all about it.

The Toronto Kiss Map is a user contributed map of kisses that took place in Toronto. The map comes from Firefly Creative Writing, so contributors are also encouraged to the tell the story behind their kiss.

To add your own kiss to the map you just need to click on the map to show the location where the tongue fencing took place. You can then share your story about the kiss in 500 characters or less.

Canadian Dogs Go Postal on Google Maps

Global BC has created a Google Map of dog ownership in Vancouver based on dog licence records mapped by postal code.

The heat map shows that there are more dog owners in the districts around the University Endowment Lands. More analysis by Global BC shows where individual breeds of dog are most popular in the city. For example, pit bull owners predominantly live in east Vancouver, "in a line more or less along Nanaimo St".

Global News produced a similar article last month looking at dog ownership in Toronto. The Toronto article includes a nice map with a drop-down menu that allows you to view heat maps of the ownership of different breeds in the city.

Toronto for Rent on Google Maps

Mapitat is a great Google Map's based application for finding properties to rent in Toronto.

Mapitat allows you to search for properties by price range and by number of bedrooms. You can also filter the results to show only properties that meet your requirement of amenities (for example, laundry, A/C, parking etc).

A really nice touch is the 'Add to Favorites' feature. If you add a property to your favorites list then its map marker is changed from green to red. This allows you to bookmark interesting properties as you search the map and helps you easily find them again when you want to go back and check the details on a property.

Armistice Day on Google Maps

On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918 Germany signed the Armistice agreement marking the end of the First World War.

Remembrance Day ceremonies take place at 11 am across the world today to commemorate those who have died in the line of duty.


Canada Remembers is a Google Maps animation of Toronto Second World War casualties from Global News.

The map shows the homes of Toronto Second World War casualties on a month by month basis. It is possible to pause the animation or to use the time-line below the map to show the casualties for a particular month. The map markers are categorised to show Army, Air Force, Navy and Merchant Marine casualties.

Toronto is Dangerously Trendy

Toronto is Trending

Toronto is Trending has one of the coolest welcome screens I've ever seen on a website. When you go to Toronto is Trending you are presented with a full-screen video of Toronto. Twitter speech bubbles then appear above some of the moving pedestrians in the video and follow them down the street.

If you switch to the 'map view' you can then see the latest Tweets and check-ins made in Toronto on a Google Map view of the city. The map also displays a number of hotel, ticket and package deals.

The numbered map markers let you see how many people have checked into particular venues. You can select which category of venue you wish to see displayed on the map using the icons at the top of the map.

Altogether if you want to find the most happening venues in Toronto right now then you need to visit Toronto is Trending.

Toronto’s Most Dangerous Intersections

Global Toronto has mapped out Toronto's most dangerous intersections for pedestrians. By looking at the accident history data for 1337 intersections in the city Global Toronto has been able to identify which pose the most danger to pedestrians.

Global Toronto devised an 'accident ratio' for each intersection by combining two sets of data: accidents by intersection from 2000-09 and the average daily pedestrian head-counts at each intersection.

The Google Map shows in red the intersections that have the highest accident ratio.

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Toronto Google Maps Mashup Round-up

Toronto Star: Map of the Week - Car Ownership

This week's Toronto Star Google Maps mashup is a map that shows car ownership in the Greater Toronto Area (although the title of the map, 'GTA Car Ownership Map', did make me wonder if it was a map of people who owned stolen cars).

The map is a heat map of car ownership as a percentage of households, using data from the 2006 census. The Map of the Week blog has an interesting analysis of the data. The analysis show a correlation between car ownership and income. The map also show some correlation between good public transportation links and low car ownership.

Rent Compass

Rent Compass can help you find properties to rent in Toronto and other Canadian cities.

You can search for properties by price, property type and by location. The results of your search are handily displayed on a Google Map. The map uses different map markers to show whether the properties are houses for rent or apartments.

If you click on the 'more details' link in a property's map marker a lightbox style window opens with the full details. If you want to be able to search for rental properties whilst on the move Rent Compass is also available for the iPhone.

Bring My Own Wine
This Google Maps mashup shows the location of bring your own wine restaurants in Toronto.

If you click on a map marker you can get the address of the restaurant and the corkage fee. The restaurants are also listed under the map.

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Google Map of Toronto Free Parking

Toronto Free Parking

Apparently there are hundreds of free parking locations in Toronto, just a few minutes walk away from most of the city's important hubs. The secret is knowing where they are located. Thankfully, Toronto Free Parking is willing to share the secret.

Toronto Free Parking uses the Google Maps API to show the location of free parking locations. The map uses different map markers to indicate how long it is free to park at each parking spot (1,2 or 3 hours).

Clicking on a map marker will open an information window with details of the parking spot's location and the times during which free parking is available.

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Toronto Transit Planner on Google Maps

Toronto Trip Planner

The Toronto Transit Commission have released a new trip planner to find a route between two addresses in the city. The planner can show you the best route using the city's subways/RT, buses and streetcars. The Trip Planner can also show you a “Walking Only” option.

To use the trip planner users have to enter a starting point and a destination and the time of travel. It is also possible to select options for accessible routes, bus routes with bicycle racks and to show points of interest near stops/stations.

After entering the details of a trip the trip planner will return the suggested route, including times and suggested transfers. If you select the 'view the details of this trip' option you can also view a Google Map of the selected route.

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Toronto Buses on Google Maps

Toronto Transit Map

The Toronto Transit Map displays public transit (bus, subway, street car, train, and LRT) lines for most of the Greater Toronto Area on a Google Map. Data for TTC, GO Transit, VIVA, Brampton Transit, Mississauga Transit and Vaughan Transit is included on the map.

The Toronto Transit Map has been featured on Google Maps before but bus coverage has been added since it was last featured.

StopFinder Toronto
StopFinder asks you for your destination, then helps you find parking or transit stops close to that location. Colour coded map markers show you the closest and the cheapest parking lots and types of transit. Perfect for that T.O. tourist, newcomer, or resident looking to traverse the city by transit or car.

TTC Map
A comprehensive Google Maps-based transit map for the Toronto subway system.

GTA Toronto Traffic Map
This Google Map shows real time traffic conditions for Toronto and GTA. The Toronto traffic conditions are extracted from the MTO COMPASS and RESCU cameras and shown on the map.

TTC Finder
A Google Maps mashup of TTC subway/RT stations.

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Where to Dump Your Trash in Toronto

Toronto Garbage Drop Off Map

In Toronto municipal workers have been striking for a month, which has meant that residents' trash has not been being collected. In response the city has set up temporary dump sites for residential and commercial garbage.

CBC.ca have produced a Google Maps mashup to show the location of the temporary and permanent dump sites. The map was produced using the Map Channels map creation tool, a service that lets you embed a custom map into your website or blog without the need for coding.

Coincidently, yesterday I happened to meet with the creator of Map Channels and learnt of a new exciting mapping project in development. More news of which I hope to be able to bring you soon ...

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Google Map of Toronto Neighbourhoods

Toronto Star Neighbourhood Map

One of my favourite newspapers is The Toronto Star, mainly because of Patrick Cain's Map of the Week column. Last week's Map of the Week was a Google Map of Toronto Neighbourhoods. The map shows each of Toronto's districts as a clickable shaded polygon. Clicking on any of the shaded area opens an information window that tells you the name of the neighbourhood.

After publishing the map The Toronto Star was inundated with comments, e-mails and letters about the map from its readers. The replies to the map were in many forms, "congratulations, suggestions, and pleas from overlooked communities for a spot on the map". This overwhelming response goes a long way to show that our identities are in part shaped by our immediate geography and that it can be very hard in cartography to define the often fluid boundaries of communities.

To help decide on the borders of the neighbourhoods the Toronto Star used "a distillation of history, guidebooks, common usage, the local knowledge of Star staffers and the many suggestions of readers." They have decided to ignore the names / areas created by business groups and by eager realtors.

A response from David Wencer, a member of the West Toronto Junction Historical Society, perhaps best sums up the Toronto Star Neighbourhood Map,

"There is no completely 'correct' way to make (the map). Local BIAs and residents' associations can't even agree.

"That you know this, but are nevertheless aspiring to make it accurate, is noble indeed. You are encouraging the city to contemplate the various communities which make this city terrific (in itself a worthwhile accomplishment!)."

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Toronto Star Google Maps

The Toronto Star Map of the Week


The Toronto Star has long been a global media innovator when it comes to using the Google Maps API. Web editor Patrick Cain writes a weekly column called Map of the Week, which invariably includes a useful Google Map mashup illustrating one aspect of Toronto life or local news.

Maps from The Toronto Star that Google Maps Mania has previously featured include:

• Toronto Traffic Cameras
• Afghan War Casualties
• Toronto Marijuana Grow Ops
• Toronto's Art Galleries
• 2007 Ontario election: GTA ridings

This week The Toronto Star is looking at eviction applications in the Toronto area, the story is illustrated with these three Google Maps:

Map 1: Applications to evict, Toronto

A map showing applications to evict in Toronto using shaded polygons.

Map 2: Applications to evict, GTA

A map showing applications to evict in the GTA showing shaded polygons.

Map 3: Top addresses for eviction applications

This map looks at the top individual addresses for eviction applications in Toronto.

Other recent maps from The Toronto Star include:

• The GTA impaired driving map
• The Toronto impaired driving map
• Failure rates at driver test centres
• Auto theft

This only scratches the surface of the large number of amazing maps created by The Toronto Star. To view more just check out the archive section of The Map of the Week column.

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Toronto Traffic Maps

Traveller's Road Information Portal

This traffic conditions map from the Ministy of Transport provides road information on provincially maintained highways in Ontario.

Road conditions, construction, closures and restrictions are reported by MTO road patrols, contractors and the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) to regional communications centres. This information is updated on the map seven times a day. Also traffic cameras located on selected high volume highways, provide images of road and traffic conditions.

It is possible to use the map to view the current traffic conditions, closures and restrictions and to view any of the traffic cams.

Via: Mapsgirl

GTA Toronto Traffic Map

Hwy4cast.com has alos created a Google Maps mashup showing real time traffic conditions for Toronto and GTA. The Toronto traffic conditions are extracted from the MTO COMPASS and RESCU cameras and shown on a Google Map.

It is possible to check the traffic conditions for a specific route by entering a start and finish address or by clicking on the map to enter the lat/long automatically. When clicking the map to create start and end points, you can also drag and reposition the markers.

It is also possible to click on any of the traffic cameras plotted on the map to view the traffic cam. A satellite image next to the camera's picture shows the direction the camera is pointing.


Previous Toronto Transport Maps

• Toronto: Live Toronto Traffic Map - Toronto.com's traffic map of Toronto
• Toronto Traffic Flow and Camera Map - iBegin.com's Toronto traffic map
• New TTC Map - a comprehensive transit map for the Toronto subway system

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Canada Google Maps Mashups (6)

TORONTO: BlogTO Toronto Map:

Find places to eat, shop and hang out. Enter an address or intersection or choose a neighbourhood to look up the types of places by location. As you move the map around the map refreshes with points for that view. Includes listings such as Restaurants/Bars, Cafes, Baked Goods, Grocery, Fashion, Design, Art Galleries and Books

ONTARIO: MTO Traffic Cameras website now using Google Maps!


VANCOUVER: Transit routing is now a part of Google Maps service! - This post from the Google Lat Long Blog explains that directions for Vancouver's TransLink buses, trains, and ferries have been added to Google Maps. Here is a sample route to show you this new functionality.. (Media Coverage: Canada.com, Globe & Mail)

BC: Great Sunshine Coast Real Estate Mashup!


ONTARIO: Rice Lake Resort Finder
MONTREAL: Maplist - Free, mapped classifieds

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Canada Google Maps Mashup & Mapplet Roundup (22)

Realosophy is the ultimate Toronto real estate mashup:

The Toronto Google Maps Housing and Neighbourhood (CDN spelling ;)) mashup Realosophy has come of age and has without question become the best Toronto housing mashup I've seen. John Pasalis dropped me a line to let me know the site now places a hyper-local focus on the 175 unique neighbourhoods in the Greater Toronto Area. Housing statistics such as avg. house price, property taxes, # of bedrooms available, most common housing type and most common housing style are also available with great graphing for each community page. Best of all transit and information very detailed information about schools in the area are provided as well as local businesses. Check out the "Deal Breaker" tab which lists Starbucks and other coffee spots as well :). Here is an example using my old stomping grounds of High Park. This hyper-local focus essentially makes this 175 real estate mashups in one by the level of detail each unique community gets. It's helpful to people that aren't even looking for a home but who want to learn more about their local community as well! The team at Realosophy has done a fantastic job and their resuling app should be considered a model for all Google Maps real estate mashups worldwide!

Google Maps mashup of Canadian Universities:

University-Maps is a great College and University Campus mashup for all schools across Canada. This mashup can serve many purposes; Act as a campus map for each of these schools (clear satellite imagery a prerequisite), help you find contact details about each school or let you learn more about each institution by linking off to its Wikipedia article. Search for schools based on language as well (French, English or Bilingual).

Skiing in Canada Google Maps mashup:

Bob Bolt informs us of this new mashup devoted to the major ski resorts of Canada (BC, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec are included). Choose a province, then dive in to view detailed information about skiing and boarding resorts. Google search is integrated throughout the site to help you query for resort accommodations and a small inset Google Map on each resort page will show you the terrain for the area.

Add the following Canadian "Mapplets" to your My Maps tab on Google Maps to make your own mega-mashup of all the content by viewing it directly from within Google Maps:

• Day hikes in the Western US and Canada
• Median age in US and Canada
• Earthwatch Expeditions
• Commission for Environmental Cooperation
• BnBfinder.com Bed and Breakfast Locator
• Montréal Métro
• Toronto Pubs and Bars
• JVL.Stasis.org - a Canadian Photoblog
• Toronto subway stations
• Flickr & Panoramio geotaggedphotos
• Weather Bonk
• Wikipedia

More Canadian Mashups:

• Highway 401 Service Centers - Attention 401 drivers, your Google Map has arrived! Travellers along Canada's busiest Highwayservice centres are located in both east and west directions. Tourist information stops near the 401 are included as well as traffic cameras in Toronto and Montreal.
• 2007 Ontario election: GTA ridings - As mentioned in my recent Google Maps Elections post. [Thanks to Ted Nye]
• Recent Google Maps Mashups created by Canadians: Baby Name Map (Popular Baby Names in Canada) & MediaScrape (Mapping Canadian and World News)
• US & Canada Google Maps Flight Tracker - as mentioned recently on Google Maps Mania
• Toronto.MapList.org expands to now include Vancouver.MapList.org - Free business and classifieds.

For more Canadian Google Maps mashups click the "Canada" label below!
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10 great new Google Maps mashups from Canada!

Toronto: TTC + Pubs + Parking:

AllTorontoPubs is a Google Maps mashup that plots the locations of 470+ pubs, bars and clubs in the Toronto area, as well as TTC stops and Green P Parking lots nearby. Great for a tourist to the city or for folks looking to meet up with friends near a subway stop for a pint!

Toronto: Taxi Fare Finder - Mike DeGraw-Bertsch has extended his Google Maps Taxi Fare Finder tool to Toronto! Simply enter your start and end address (or select popular hotspots) and an approximate taxi fare is calculated for you. Based on a friend yesterday who took a cab from the airport to a downtown location the calculation was pretty close!

Canada: CBC News Google Map of Canadian casualties around Kandahar, Afghanistan - This Google Map created by the CBC plots the locations of bombings and other attacks that have killed Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan. John Bowman from the CBC writes: "..The locations are approximate, based on the information given to us by the Dept. of National Defence and from media reports. For example, the latest casualty occurred "about 40 km north of Kandahar" as the soldier's convoy was driving to a base in Khakrez, according to the DND news release. So, using Google Earth and various online mapping tools, I found a point on the road to Khakrez about 40 km away of Kandahar. For security reasons, DND won't give any more detailed information, so it's the best we can do."

Toronto: Live Toronto Traffic Map - Toronto.com has implemented a nice live traffic map for the city. Choose an area and Collisions, Construction, Closures, Delays and Incidents are mapped for you.

Waterloo Region: Construction Congestion Map - Hats off to TheRecord.com for making use of Google Maps to help folks in Waterloo Region avoid traffic this summer! Click the worker icons to get a closeup street map and details of the construction.

Toronto: Doors Open Toronto - Here is a mashup created by The Toronto Star to showcase those historic locations in Toronto that participated in "Doors Open", an open house for historic buildings. Each point on the map features a great overview of that structure. [via]

Vancouver: EatVancouver Google My Map - An excellent Google My Map which marries food reviews with Google Maps! Check out the Eat Vancouver Blog to see where the posts originate!

Vancouver: 2010 Winter Olympics Venue Map
Vancouver: Map of 14 Key Hotels

Canada: House Proud - Use this Google Maps tool to document your home our neighborhood so upgrades are done in the right style of the home. Read this to learn more.

Hamilton: Over a Hundred Places of Interest

Ted Nye has created a Google My Maps mashup that combines two KMLs directly from MyMaps. It covers "Over a Hundred Places of Interest" in the great city of Hamilton, Ontario. View main city highlights, Schools, Stores and even import the URL of your own Google My Map to overlay onto the map.

StartupNorth.ca gives MyHood some love..

Click on the Canada label below for more recent Google Maps mashups from Canada!

More New Google Maps Mashups for Canada!

New for Toronto:
Speed Traps in the GTA - Check the mashup, then let off on the gas! :)

More Toronto Google Maps mashups from XYYZ.ca:
Dog Parks
Red Light Cameras
Brewery tours
Ravine runs

Illegal billboards in Toronto - A mashup of all locations where illegal signs and billboards exist, complete with photos.

Toronto.com uses Google Maps - Check out the related points of interest near Toronto.com restaurant and business listings. In this example (Kwangtung Dim Sum Restaurant) other Restaurants, Hotels, Bars & Clubs, Attractions, Cinemas, Shopping, Sports & Recreation, TTC Subway and Green P Parking is all noted on a Google Maps interface. Nice mashup by Toronto.com!

Other Toronto Google Maps Mashups here.. (scroll down the page)

New Housing Mashups:

MyHood - Takes apartment listings from NOW Magazine, Craigslist and other sources and mashes it all up with locations of TTC subway stations, GO stations and grocery stores around the GTA.
Realosophy Helps home buyers research the neighbourhoods (nearest schools, restaurants, fitness centers or doctor’s offices) School report cards and geo-coded neighbourhood boundaries and profiles (from Wikipedia) for over 150 neighbourhoods in Toronto and Vancouver.
Rent-Index - Google Maps rental listings for: Calgary Laval Montreal Ottawa Toronto Greater Toronto Area (GTA) Quebec South Shore of Mtl (Montérégie-Sud) Vancouver Winnipeg
EstateMaps - Google Maps Real Estate for (all in Ontario):
Kingston Amherstview Gananoque Napanee Leeds and the Thousand Islands Central Frontenac Loyalist South Frontenac Stone Mills North Frontenac

New Canadian Transit Mashups:

Google Map of Montreal Metro:

• Ottawa's OC Transpo has created a mashup of their stops
• City of Guelph displays routes using Google Maps

Other Canadian Transit Mashups:

• Toronto (TTC) Map, [2], [3]
• Vancouver Transit Map
• Charlottetown transit

Other Cities & Across Canada:

Plant a Daffodil on a Google Map for the Canadian Cancer Society:


Hamilton Spectator uses Google My Maps to display city police blotter:

The Hamilton Spectator newspaper is using Google's new My Maps service (a way to create your own Google Maps mashup) to display locations of crime incidents in the previous week. They are linking to the map from this section of their online edition. [Thanks Ted!]

• Simple Vancouver Attractions Map with Photos
• Recent Quebec Elections Mashup - Details here.
• Mapping Canadian Beer - BeerMapping.com plots all brewpubs and breweries in Canada. While you're at it, check out BeerHunter.ca for Ontario beer, LCBO and indie bottle shop locations! :)
• CBC News uses Google Maps to illustrate news story
• Lloyd's using Google Earth maps to plot exposures
• GeoRSS comes to Canadian Jobs listings on Indeed.com

Check here for more previously mentioned Canadian Google Maps Mashups.. (Scroll down the page)

Toronto, Canada Google Maps Mashup Roundup!

More Google Maps mashups for the city of Toronto, Ottawa and some mashups that include Canadian data..

Toronto Traffic Flow and Camera Map - iBegin.com has set up a great local community guide that has put the Google Maps API to use in a number of ways. Search results can be mapped and each listing in the guide has a Google Map embedded on the page. I especially like this feature - Neighbourhood (spelled the Canadian way) Explorer. It allows you to center the map anywhere, then list attractions and businesses close to that point. This is great for tourists that can center the map on the hotel they're staying in, as well as Torontonians to locate places to do their taxes or find a restaurant closeby. They've just also created this map of MTO and City of Toronto cameras to help you keep up with the traffic situation.

Jewish in Toronto? - If you are, this Google Maps mashup is for you. Steve over at Jewishinto.com suggested 3 great new maps they have integrated with their database. Check it out, they have a Stores Map which lists Bakeries, Kosher Supermarkets, Jewish Books, Judaica, etc.. They also have a great Restaurants Map that list locations by Meat, Dairy and Parve. Last but of course the most important is Synagogue Map which lists tons of synagogues throughout the Greater Toronto Area.

Toronto Entertainment District Map - This is a map of all the hotspots in Toronto's entertainment district. If you live in Toronto, you'll know this area. If you're visiting, it's worth checking out on a Saturday night.


(Check here for more Google Maps mashups for Toronto..)

Other new maps for Canada:

Ottawa Runs
VacationsMadeEasy.com + Google Maps - Choose a city from the left, click on area map + points of interest -> Map to the right.
Google Mapping Community Bike Groups
iLoveInns.com + Google Maps

Toronto, Canada Google Maps Mashup Roundup!

Here are some new and existing Google Maps mashups for the great city of Toronto, Canada:

New TTC Map - David Pritchard has extended his transit map collection to include Toronto. This new Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) mashup joins his Vancouver map to provide a comprehensive Google Maps-based transit map for the Toronto subway system.



Alkemis Local Toronto - Alkemis originally hit the scene with its New York version and has now exanded to include Toronto. Although Alkemis Local Toronto doesn't have anywhere near the NYC Alkemis bells and whistles (it should remove the non-relevant sections from the left column), it does feature traffic cams and data aggregated from del.icio.us, Flickr, Yahoo! Video and more. Drag your map view around the lake a bit to also find webcams for the Hamilton and Niagara region.

Photos of Toronto posted on a Google Map - EnvisionToronto.com has the same feel as Flickr and lets people post and tag photos overlaid on a Google Map of Toronto. The map is the thesis project of 4th year University of Toronto student Ahmed El-Khuffash. Users can signup for their own accounts, and post pictures on certain locations on the map. As it's still a work in progress Ahmed wants folks to test it out and provide feedback to him!

Toronto Portal includes Google Maps integration

A mystery in Mississauga is solved with Google Maps

Other Toronto Google Maps Mashups:

• TTC Map
• GTA Traffic
• 360 degree panoramic views of Toronto
• Real Estate + locations of TTC, Beer Stores, LCBO shops
• Toronto Sweet Shops
• Mississauga Real Estate
• Toronto Live Music
• Alicia Ross Murder Case
• TTC - Toronto Transit Map
• Toronto Beer, Liquor, Wine Map
• Toronto Traffic Map
• Toronto Property Search
• Toronto Weather
• Google Local: Toronto
• Interesting Google Satellite Maps (See Toronto in list)

Technorati Tags: [Toronto], [Canada], [Google], [Google Local], [Google Maps], [Google Maps Mania]

3 new Google Maps Mashups for Ottawa and Toronto!

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Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) Google Map - Onshi over at 69Stations (which appears to be a TTC-related blog) has picked up the Google Maps API and carved out a Google Map for the Toronto subway system. Info-windows show an image of the schedule card for that station (hours of operation, first/last train and frequency). This card can be clicked on to enlarge since it's a bit hard to make out in the bubble. Hopefully more work will be done to improve this map. I'd love it if a Toronto version of Alkemis Local (NYC) could be cloned since much of the same types of online info is available for Toronto (and other Canadian cities for that matter!)

Ottawa Gas Prices Google Map - Gas Prices In Ottawa.com the Google Maps gas price mashup scene showing folks in Canada's national capital city where they can find the cheapest gas. Give this map a chance to load the many Esso, Petro Canada, Shell (and more) icons that show you locations of stations and the number of times it has had a price update. The map relates with the price table located here. I would suggest that this site makes the map the central starting point and code the pins in such a way that the visitor can visibly see at a glance where the cheapest stations are located. This will make it a full featured Google Maps mashup.

New Ottawa Housing Google Map - Sticking within the City of Ottawa, here is a new real estate map that lets people search for homes for sale. Typical map search filters apply here: Area of town, price range, Open House, new listing or sold properties. [via]

More collections of Canadian Google Maps: [1] [2] [3] [4]

Technorati Tags: [Toronto], [Ottawa], [Canada], [Google Local], [Google Maps mashup], [Google Maps], [Google Maps Mania]