200 British Towns on Google Maps

200 Towns uses Google Maps with creative commons photographs and geo-located Tweets to provide a portrait of 200 UK towns.

You can navigate to individual towns using the alphabetised links in the side-bar or by zooming out on the map and clicking a town's marker. Each individual town page includes a Google Map showing its location, a selection of photographs submitted to Flickr taken in the town, Tweets about the location and its Wikipedia entry. 

View Tweets by Location with Twitter Nano

If you want to find out what your neighbors are saying on Twitter or, if you want to view the stream of Tweets surrounding an event, then you should try Twitter Nano.

Twitter Nano allows you to watch a real-time stream of Twitter messages around any location. To use the application you just need to set the location you wish to view with the provided Google Map. The live stream of Tweets is then automatically displayed beneath the map.

You can start and stop the stream at any time by using the 'start' and 'pause'

Cussing London on Google Maps

Ed Manley, a researcher at University College London and author of the Urban Movements blog, has analysed Tweets in London looking at the prevalence of swearing on Twitter.

Manley looked at the swearing patterns on Twitter by time (swearing seems to get more popular the longer the day progresses) and geographically. A Google Map of the spatial patterns of swearing in London can be viewed on The Guardian website.

The map shows that swearing is less prevalent in the centre of the city and more widely practised in London's outer boroughs.

So do Londoner's swear more at home than at work?

Manley thinks not.You can read his theory about why swearing is more prevalent in some boroughs that others on the Urban Movements blog.

TwitTrips on Google Maps

TweetedTrips allows tweeting travellers to create and share an interactive map of their tweets, complete with their photos and an 'Indiana Jones-style' polyline of the journey.

Creating a Google Map of your journey couldn't be easier. All you really need to do is enter your Twitter user name. TweetedTrips then automatically creates a map of your geolocated Tweets. If some of your Twitter messages aren't geo-located you can manually add them to the map.

Once you save and publish your map you can share the map page with your friends and followers. Any future located tweets will automatically be added to your map so that your friends can follow your progress on your Tweeted Trip. 

Annoyed with the Weather on Google Maps

Weather Sentiment Prediction is a clever Google Maps based application that can tell you how people feel about the weather at any location.

You can select a location on the application by dragging the map marker and adjusting the radius of the search area. Once you hit the 'search' button the application begins to analyse Tweets from that area which mention the weather. Each message is machine analysed to determine whether it is a positive or negative response to the weather.

A smiley face and an unsmiley face at the top of the Twitter stream give an indication of the overall response to the current weather. My unscientific analysis suggests that the Weather Sentiment Prediction for London today is fairly accurate with a negative response to a grey and rainy day.

As an experiment I dragged the marker to Los Angeles and in response the Weather Sentiment Prediction gave me a big smiley face. If only I could drag my big lardy derrière to LA as easily then I'd have a big smiley face as well.

Via: ProgrammableWeb

The Companies Twitter Map

Virender Ajmani is using his real-time Twitter map engine to track the latest Tweets about Detroit Area Companies.

The map animates through the latest Twitter messages that mention GM, Ford, Chrysler, Onstar or a number of other Detroit based firms. It is possible to select an individual company from the menu and just watch the latest messages mentioning their brand appear on the Google Map.

If I owned a large business I would definitely have one of these animated maps playing on a large screen in the reception of my headquarters so that I could track real-time responses to the company around the world.

Twitter Data Mining with Google Maps

DataSift recently struck a deal with Twitter which allows DataSift's customers to access Twitter’s past two years of global tweets. Included in those Tweets is a lot of geographical information that map developers can mine.

DataSift itself has created a number of examples of how the data could be used. Currently it has a number of live streaming Google Maps in the 'Geo' section of its examples showcase. The example maps include: Tweets from Fifth Avenue, New York, Tweets from the USA, Tweets from the Middle East and Natural Disaster Tweets.

Each example includes a number of different views; a live streaming view, a Google Maps view, a graph view, a Klout (influence) view and a breakdown of the Tweets by gender.

A World of Tweets on Google Maps

GlobalTweets is a Google Map and timeline of Twitter messages.

GlobalTweets allows users to search the Twitter messages shown on the map or filter the results by the type of Tweet. The Tweets can be viewed as individual messages or as a heat map, so it is possible to gauge the extent of Twitter activity at different locations around the world.

The latest Tweets are also displayed in the timeline beneath the map. It is possible to translate, reply or retweet any of the messages on the map.

Hat-tip: Street View Funny

Real-time Twitter Activity on Google Maps

Tweereal is a Google Map of Twitter users activity in real-time. The map displays an animation of the latest Tweets that contain geo-tags.

The Twitter messages are shown on the map by expanding coloured circles. It is possible to adjust the size and the opacity of the circles on the map. The map also includes slider controls that allow the user to control the length of the circle animation and the precision of their location.

Tweet to the Stars with Google Maps

Earthtwit is a very cool mashup of the Google Earth plugin and Twitter. The application allows you to browse Google Earth and post an update to Twitter with a link to any location in Google Earth. When your followers on Twitter click on the short URL of the view you submitted they will be taken to the view in the Google Earth plugin.

Earthtwit has now added the option to view Google Sky, Google's map of the night sky. This means that you can now Tweet a link to your favourite images of the stars. If you don't use Twitter you can just grab the URL of a view and share that with you friends via e-mail, on Facebook or on your own website.

Your Twitter Friends on Google Maps

Twitter Friends Map lets you view the people you follow on a Google Map. Once you connect the map with your Twitter account you can view the locations of all the people you follow on Twitter.

The map includes a novel marker clustering solution. Clusters of your friends are shown by a number within a white circle marker. If you mouse-over the marker it expands to display the profile pictures of your friends.

If you like the map or the marker clustering solution you can view the code on gihub.

Watch that Heat Map Grow & Glow

David Troy's awesome Twittervision map shows real-time Twitter messages on a Google Map.

Twittervision was one of the first non-transport related real-time maps and has been the inspiration for many other real-time animated maps. Twittervision now also includes another amazing innovation - a real-time heat map of photographs posted to Twitter.

If you switch off the 'tweets' layer you can view a heat map of real-time photos being posted on Twitter. The heat map actually appears and grows on the map in real-time. Very cool!


The New York Times' Tracking Taxi Flow is an excellent animated heat map that shows taxi pickups throughout the week in New York. The data comes from millions of taxi trips taken between January and March, 2009.

The biggest hot spot in New York in the mornings seems to be around Penn Station. Grand Central also seems to be a popular place to pickup taxis before work. Late at night the hotspots seem to be centred around Broadway, presumably as night goers are heading home.


Cooler Planet run a free service to help the public find green businesses and service providers in their area. Cooler Planet took all of the solar energy inquiries that they received over a number of years and produced an animated heat map, showing where those enquiries came from.

To animate the Solar Energy Enquiries Map select 'Time Lapse' and the map will add all the enquiries, quarter by quarter, from 2007 to 2009. Areas that have made the most enquiries appear in red on the map.

Syrian Tweets on Google Maps

The Syrian city of Homs is entering its fifth day of heavy bombardment from President Bashar al-Assad's Syrian regime.

Mibazaar has rolled out his popular Tweet mapping format to show Twitter messages posted from within a 400 mile radius of Damascus, Syria. His Syria Protests map animates through the latest Tweets with the hashtag #Syria, showing a new message after every 4-5 seconds.

Twitter Islands Appear on Google Maps

Over the last few years the Centre of Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL has created some interesting visualisations of data from Twitter. For example, CASA's, Tweet-o-Metre shows the current level of Twitter activity in a number of major cities around the world.

CASA's Interactive Tweetography Maps uses the Google Maps API to present a number of topographical maps of New York, London, Paris and Munich based on where in the cities Twitter users are most active. The contours on the maps show the density of tweets, with mountains showing the most active locations on Twitter.

Digital Urban has now taken the data from the London Tweetography Map and visualised it with the 3d game engine Lumion. They say they are still in the early stages of development but, I think you will agree, the results are already pretty amazing.

SOPA Tweets on Google Maps

Understandably one of the top Twitter trends today is SOPA. A lot of major websites around the world, including Wikipedia and Google, are today showing their opposition to the proposed US anti-piracy laws of SOPA and PIPA.

Mibazaar has created the #SOPA Tweets Map to show in real-time the latest Twitter messages that include the hashtag '#SOPA'. The map includes the option to watch either east coast or west coast Tweets appear on the map.

The Weather Twitter Map

Wettervolke is a nice Google Maps based application to view the current weather and local Twitter messages about the weather.

The current weather conditions are displayed on a Google Map using the standard weather map symbols. The current temperature is also displayed directly on the map. As well as the current weather conditions it is possible to view a forecast for the rest of the day and for tomorrow's weather.

Overlaid on the map is a Twitter weather window which displays the latest Tweets about the weather from your location. The weather symbols on the map update automatically when you pan and zoom the map. However to view the local weather Tweets users need to use the search box to position the map at the correct location.

Via: ProgrammableWeb

Twitter Top Trends on Google Maps

TwitTRENDS allows users to view local top trends on Twitter with a little help from Google Maps.

To use the application users can click anywhere in the world on a Google Map. A list of the nearest places nearby that are available as geo-located 'Trends' is then loaded beneath the map.

If you click on one of the cities listed you can view the top trends on Twitter for that location. Click on one of the trends and you can view the latest Twitter messages about that trend.

Also See: Trendsmap

Three New Twitter Google Maps

Foller.me is a new application that can show you all your Twitter followers on a Google Map.

As well as showing the locations of all your followers Foller.me also provides a word-cloud of your recent Tweets, displays your recent hash tag use and displays who has recently mentioned you in a Tweet.


CandiTweet.com displays the latest Tweets from the 2012 presidential candidates on a Google Map.

To view the latest Tweets from a candidate users can click on the candidate's map marker or on their name, listed below the map.


TweetMapping is a Japanese Google Map that lets you search for geo-related Tweets.

Users can enter any search term and view all Tweets that mention the term around the world. Although the instructions are given in Japanese the map actually works with any language (for example it will work with a search for 'coffee', 'コーヒー' or 'café').

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The Google Map of Your Twitter Followers

Have you ever wondered where your Twitter followers live? Wonder no more - let TweepsMap provide you with the answer.

There are a number of applications that use Google Maps to show you the locations of your Twitter followers. TweetsMaps however can show you the percentage of users you have in different countries. It even allows you to drill down and see how many followers you have in each state and in each city.

TweetsMap also allows you to view the data in list form and in a pie chart.

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Measuring 10.6 on the Twitter Scale

Last week's Virginia earthquake may only have measured 5.8 on the Moment magnitude scale but it measured a whopping 10.6 on the Twitter scale.



This Twitter Quake Map shows the astonishing rate and spread of Twitter messages about the quake in the 8o seconds after it hit. As the map animates through the 80 seconds, the location and density of the Tweets radiate out from Virginia, almost exactly like the shock or P waves of the quake itself.



Via: @andreitr



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