Welcome to Indoor Google Maps

Indoor floor plans and maps are now available for many airports and shopping malls for users of Google Maps 6.0 for Android.

Where available detailed floor plans automatically appear when you open Google Maps in your Android phone. As usual the 'blue dot' will appear on the floor plan to show your current location within several meters.

When you move floors in a building the floor plan will even automatically update to display which floor you’re on.

Initially floor plans are available for a number of malls, airports and transit stations in the U.S. and Japan. You can see a detailed list of participating locations here.

Google have also created a Floor Plans website where business owners can upload their floor plans and make them available on Google Maps.

Via: Google LatLong

Sharing Your Memories of 9/11

NYT: Where I Was Map

The New York Times' 'The Reckoning' is an in depth examination of life in America and in the rest of the world on and since 9/11. The feature includes a Google Map called Where I Was.

The map allows users to add a comment to the map explaining where they were at the time of the 9/11 attacks and / or how they feel now. When browsing the submitted comments it is is possible to filter the results by mood.

The map also includes a number of quick links to zoom the map to Ground Zero, New York and to Washington.

National Geographic Channel - Remembering 9/11

The National Geographic Channel has created this Google Map to commemorate the collective presence and kindness of strangers that got many people through the unimaginable horrors they witnessed on 9/11.

On the 10th anniversary of 9/11 the National Geographic Channel is inviting everyone to rebuild this collective history of 9/11 by sharing their personal stories on this interactive Google Map.

The Remembering 9/11 Facebook app allows users to post brief accounts of their 9/11 experiences and mark their stories on the interactive map. Users are also able to explore all posted anecdotes by location and filter stories to see their friends’ stories and share comments.

The app is available worldwide in nine languages.

Hvad Lavede du Den 11

Danish broadcaster TV 2 is also interested in how Danes remember the atrocities of 9/11. They have created this Google Map to collect the memories of their viewers.

Users of the map can add where they were during the attacks and how the attacks affected them. The map also includes summaries by some of TV 2's own news correspondents.

Hat-tip: microformats.dk

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Zip Code Google Map

Zipmaps

This Google Map mashup will help you find the zip code for anywhere in the United States. Clicking on the map or keying a zip code or address into the search box will zoom the map to the area of that particular zip code.

Links in the sidebar will zoom the map to the chosen state. New links will then appear to counties which in turn, when clicked, will load links to cities and towns in those counties. The map display includes a boundary of the state, county or city as a whole image overlay with a custom tile layer of zip codes.

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GIS on Google Maps

Geowebdeveloper Map

This Google Map is an entry in the ESRI Mashup Challenge. It is based on the Ext Framework, the Google Maps API and the ArcGIS JavaScript Extension for Google Maps API. The map is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Only License so you can download the files and create your own ArcGIS map.

Download URL, Documentation URL

Via: Mapperz

GrafSchafter Atlas

Graftchafter Atlas is a GIS portal for the towns of Bentheim, Bad Bentheim and Nordhorn in Germany.

The maps include a wealth of information about the towns. This information includes tourist information, bicycle paths, Lower Saxony Environment Management: water quality, construction, building plans and small business information, Lower Saxony Environment Management: soil, contaminated land and noise.

GIS Map Grids on Google Maps

This is a simple Google Map based GIS application with three selectable live GIS layers. Clicking on an area of interest on the map will query the live GIS layers and return the layer name along with the id of the GIS feature selected.

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