BYO GMap

GoBYO

In these cash strapped times one of the best ways to save money when eating out is to choose a Bring Your Own restaurant. GoBYO has a comprehensive database of restaurants that allow you to bring your own bottle of wine.

It is possible to search the GoBYO listings by restaurant name or search within a selected distance from a particular address. It is also possible to search by type of cuisine. Each restaurant displays a button for 'More Info, Maps & Reviews'.

The map view uses Google Maps to display the location of the restaurant and to show the number of stars the restaurant has based on Yelp reviews. Details of the restaurant, including any corkage fees and price range of the restaurant, are given in the map sidebar.

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Searching for a Merlot on Google Maps

Grappos.com

Grappos.com is an online store locator for wine. The site has a huge database of wines from wineries, distributors and retailers which means they are able to tell you which local store is stocking the wine that you want.

To search for a particular type of wine you just need to enter the name of the wine and your location and Grappos.com will show you all the stores selling that wine on a Google Map. You can even create a link to any search by executing a search and clicking on "Create Link". This service is already being used by wineries as a product locator on their own sites.

Grappos.com is also about to launch a blog that will feature user reviews. There is an iPhone application in the pipeline that should be available soon.

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Canada Google Maps Mashup Roundup (Jan.30/08)

Century 21 launches Google Maps Mashup in Canada:

Century 21 Canada's new website is a complete Google Maps mashup. It makes Google Maps the primary browsing experience as you search for listings or agents at a provincial, regional or city/town level. The single page application allows you to easily filter location, price and other specs without page reloads and combination of the on map info-windows and sidebar present a LOT of information about the agent or a listing. This is a great new national real estate mashup that should definitely be used if you're house hunting anywhere in Canada! (Check other Canadian real estate mashups by clicking the "Canada" label below!)

Wineries of Ontario Mashup:

Anton Umnikov's new wine mashup is helping to get the word out about the world's best kept wine region secret: Ontario, Canada! The Niagara region of Ontario is not known only for one of the wonders of the world, but it's also home to many world class wineries. Actor Dan Aykroyd is among many who have recently invested millions in the region. Take a look at this helpful mashup to help you plan a wine tour for your next visit to Toronto, Ottawa or Niagara Falls! (More worldwide wine mashups found here!)

Canada City Count: 3!

• Vancouver, BC (TransLink)
• Fredericton, NB (Fredericton Transit) [Press]
• Montréal, QC (AMT)

Since Google Transit is now an integrated part of Google Maps, this means that when you search for Driving Directions in any of these cities on Google Maps you will also be presented with transit directions as an option!
Related: New Montreal Metro Map (Simple maps of Metro stations)



Putting Canada on the map (Globe and Mail - Dec/07) - Father of digitized mapping recounts how a stroke of luck led him to develop the world's first geographic information system
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13 new US Google Maps mashups

• NYC: Free summer meals - Mapped are all the free summer meals sites available for kids in NYC, color-coded them depending on whether they serve breakfast and lunch or just lunch.
• NYC: Farmer's Markets - Color coded to show their accessibility for people using food stamps.
• National: OpenWiFiSpots - Search the map of locations by city, state or zip [via]
• Sacramento Bee Crime Map and Fresno Bee Crime Map - Both are examples of how online news sites are using Google Maps to map regional crime stats for members of the community.
  
• 100 Great American Towns - A CNN Money Google Maps mashup
• Oahu, Hawaii Hotels & Resorts Mashup
  
• Boston: real estate developments Google Map - Check out the Boston real estate development scene with this Google My Map created by Andrew Lynch [via]
• Intentional Communities Map - Locate an ecovillage, co-housing, commune, co-op, or other cooperative living arrangement. Includes Canada as well.
• Sonoma County (CA) Wineries Map
• HungerMaps.org - Showing Anchorage (AK), Boston, New York City
• 89.9 KCRW (LA) Fringe Benefits Providers Interactive Map - A list of the places you can get discounts if you are a member of the local NPR station, 89.9 KCRW
• Virtual Beale Street (Memphis) - Navigate a QTVR tour of this famous Memphis, Tennessee street on Google Maps.

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9 new US Google Maps mashups and tools!

MoreMap is a mega maps mashup! - Lets you perform Package Tracking, check Weather, track Earthquakes, view Traffic, find Movies, Banks, and Radio Stations on a Google Map. There are a few other cool features from within the UI including printing and map enlargement. I've been in touch with Adam Richman for several months as he has been hard at work creating the site and I know a lot of time has gone into making this a good user experience. Nice work Adam! (This would make a great Mapplet!)

Gas-Cost Map Tool - Enter your car's gas mileage and where you are going and it gives your gas cost and directions, using the latest gasoline prices... on a Google Map! (This would make a great Mapplet!)

New Luxury Real Estate Mashups:
LuxurySiliconValley.com
LuxuryMonterey.com
LuxuryNorthBay.com
From the creator of these sites: "The goal of the application is to provide easy access to the limited inventory of luxury properties in a specific market (vs. our standard map-based MLS search product which gives access to all for sale properties) with intuitive, classy user interface. Property hotspots can be clicked-through to the respective brokerage's site for complete details. The maps are full screen, kiosk ready, and utilize social bookmarking, viral marketing via email tools and an industry unique feature of RSS notification of just listed properties in a given map extent. While others, like Trulia provide RSS feeds of a new listings per city, I am not aware of any other real estate site, which provides RSS feed of matching properties within a specific map boundary."

More Google Maps Mashups from ProgrammableWeb.com:

The Smartest American Cities
Long Island Vineyards Map
Where a Bill becomes a Law
Motel6.com Attractions Finder Mashup

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Google Maps Mania links for 2007-04-16

• Kurt Cobain Google Maps and YouTube Mashup - Here's is a tribute to Nirvana's Kurt Cobain by Hank Liu. He uses Google Maps and YouTube to take you on a journey through Kurt Cobain's career (1987-1994).
• CBS News Google Maps Mashup - Mashes up Google Maps with the CBS News KML.
• Corozal Mapia: Great local tourism mashup! - Here is a another great local tourism Google Maps mashup example (I also like this example). Mashes up local attractions and points of interest for Corozal, Belize with YouTube videos, news, photos and more. Monetized within the info-windows using Google AdSense as well!
• Team Extreme NBA Google Map - Uses Google Maps to display all NBA teams. A nice Google Calendar implementation can be found on the "Schedule" info-window tab in this mashup.
• Vino2Vino World Winery Region Map (Zoom out to see world regions) - Maps various wine regions from around the world. Here is a description from the Digg entry: "..Vino2Vino.com has launched a new winery mapping feature, built on top of the Google maps API. It has some pretty cool features like clustering at high zoom levels along with paginated info windows that allow users to easily navigate detailed information for all of the wineries in a cluster. Thus, over 1,100 wineries are viewable on a single map." Check out this blog post for more details..
• Map of the largest countries in the world by area
• New Google Maps Game - World Geography Quiz (More Google Maps Games here..)
• GiveEarthAHand.com - Uses Google Maps to help non-profits and their projects.
• Twitters on Google Maps - Another Twitter Google Maps mashup (by Virender Ajmani)
• GeoGreeting is up for a Webby Award! - GeoGreeting, the fun Google Maps greeting tool is nominated for a Webby Award in the Peoples Voice category. Go here, click 'Register now to vote' on the right side, and follow the instructions. GeoGreeting is in the NetArt category in the Entertainment section (2nd section from the top) for websites.
• The Eyes of the Earth - Check out the eyes of the earth Flickr screenshot in Mendoza Argentina that shows real photos of the location and links off to Earth and Maps to view it. A big shout-out to Kevin and Justina Mendoza on this one! :)
• Real world Google Maps marker - I posted about this a long time back but I love the video that was shot for this so I'm posting again in case you haven't seen it yet! :)
• Photo: Google Maps being used in the Hamburg Underground - Stephan Brosinski took this picture using his cell phone recently. He mentions that "For certain stations they show a satellite map of the area, marking the underground station and points of
• interests around it. There are also "bubbles" pointing to businesses in the area of the underground station" Here is the original blog post (in German language)
• DatesNearby - Check out the example query 02451 or your own local zip code to test drive this mashup.
• NAC Geographic + NAC Universal Addressing System + Google Maps
• Maps Meet Mashups - Information Week - March 17/07
• Zipcar taps Google Maps to make reserving cars easier - Network World - March 3/07