Mmm... Cake on a Google Map

Cake Delivery Map

Pink Cake Box, based in Denville NJ, are often asked by potential clients where they deliver to. To help customers find the answer to this question they have developed a Google Map showing several of the different venues that they have delivered cakes to in the past.

The Pink Cake Box think that Google Maps is such a good vehicle for displaying a business' product that they have also published a tutorial. The tutorial explains how they created a WordPress plugin that automatically pulls data from their existing blog posts.

The plugin allows the Pink Cake Box to add a latitude/longitude and venue to a post. The plugin then automatically extracts additional information from the post and displays it on the Pink Cake Box's Cake Delivery Map. The plugin also has an added functionality to create links directly to a specific item on the map. So a link in a blog post can take readers directly to that entry on Google Maps.

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Google Maps Mashup Roundup for 7 Countries!

Time to get caught up on some newly introduced Google Maps mashups from the following countries: UAE, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Brazil, Korea, Turkey, China. If you know of any other new maps mashups from these countries, please post a comment below! :)

Brazil: Philips maps digital tv signal reception quality:

Brazil: imobilien real estate mashup
Brazil: Mapia is a city guide for 16 Brazilian cities
Turkey: Emlak Haritam is a Turkish real estate mashup
Singapore: PropertyGuru maps for sale and rent properties
China: Chinese real estate mashup
UAE: Places.ae uses Google Maps
UAE: Dubai City info Google Maps mashup
India: SadakMap lets public/private groups blog on a Google map
Malaysia: Mapdoo lets you create your own map
Worldwide: Falamosportuges maps Poruguese language businesses
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7 great new US Google Maps mashups!

TaxiWiz: Google Maps Tool to calculate cab fare! (now for 6 US cities!)

Mike DeGraw-Bertsch has expanded his New York City Cab fare tool to include 5 new US cities. They are: Boston, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Toronto is also the first Canadian city added. Select two points and Taxiwiz helps to estimate the cab fare for that journey. There are also mobile versions for each city so you can use this app on your mobile device (this doesn't use Google Maps).

130,000 US Public Schools.. Mapped!

Public School Portal lets you search and Google map 130,000 US public schools by zip code or by city/state. Each school has detailed information including school website, driving directions, number of teachers, students and even the cultural mix of students attending. It's very interesting. Public School portal also includes the "Best 100 US high schools" (as reported by Newsweek).

Map of US Harley Davidson Dealerships - Drill down to state level to see Google Map. Also provides directions.

Baltimore Homicides in 2007 - The Baltimore Sun has created a Google Map with
options for sorting and displaying Baltimore murder locations that occurred this year using different criteria, such as the date of the murder and the district or ZIP code in which the victim was found. It also allows users to sort by certain characteristics of the victims, such as age, gender, race and cause of death.

RadioShack Store Locator now uses Google Maps:


US South Asian Business Google Maps mashup - Approx. 9000 listings mashed up with Google Maps.

2008 Presidential Election Primary Polls

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The World Bank Google Maps Mashup: Doing Business Map

The "Doing Business Map": How easy (or difficult) is it to do business in 175 countries?


DoingBusiness.org is a part of The World Bank Group and offers a database to "..provide objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement. The Doing Business indicators are comparable across 175 economies. They indicate the regulatory costs of business and can be used to analyze specific regulations that enhance or constrain investment, productivity, and growth."

To make it easier to browse this database The World Bank Group has created a Google Maps mashup called the "Doing Busiess Map" which creates a map view to the the database they are providing as a service from their website. Here is the description from the map: "..Take a trip around the world to discover how easy (or difficult) it is to do business in 175 countries. Click on green, yellow or red placemarks to learn more about each country." It's a really nice Map with three clearly labeled map markers that indicate the ease or challenge of doing business for the country marked across a number of indicators. They include:

• Doing Business
• Starting a Business
• Dealing with Licenses
• Employing Workers
• Registering Property
• Getting Credit
• Protecting Investors
• Paying Taxes
• Trading Across Borders
• Enforcing Contracts
• Closing a Business

Now entrepreneurs and business people all over the world can more easily create business plans and develop their overall business strategy. It is truly a Google Maps mashup that has the potential to change the way the world operates.

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8 New US Google Maps Mashups

User-submitted Road Rage Mapper:

Popular Google Maps incident mapper IncidentLog.com has long been a source of US national police and emergency incidents. This mashup is now shifting its focus to also map 'Road Rage and Aggressive Driving' events which allows users to report public incidents. For the 500 most recent events, check out this map.

New Jersey Transit Google Maps Mashup - Jersey Map.org is a Google Maps API project which plots Light Rail, Hudson County Buses and PATH Trains routes throughout Jersey City and surrounding towns. The creators of this mashup note that express buses, Red & Tan lines, and shuttle vans coming "within the next few weeks." [via]

• Locate a USPS Mailbox
• Craigslist Housing + Google Maps = MapsKreig
• Fortune 500 Women CEOs
• Business Broker Map
• GoSeeOregon.com Google Map
• Top Medical Schools in United States

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8 New US Google Maps Mashups

A Big Box Mashup - BigBoxWatch is a blog that "tracks new retail construction of several national retailers within the United States." This blog makes use of a Google Maps mashup as a key part of presenting this information, by geography, throughout the U.S. BigBoxWatch pulls information from newspapers, planning board agendas, and other sources to show new planned locations for Best Buy, Home Depot, Ikea, JCPenney, Kohl's, Lowe's, Target and Wal-Mart stores. As creator Tom Sullivan puts it; "Think of it as a future store locator."

Google My Maps used to plot spread of Georgia wildfires - With wildfires spreading fast in the community of Waycross, Georgia Google user Will Dewitt is pulling information posted to this message board together to build and maintain a Google My Map of specific locations seeing fire related activity. If you jump ahead to the 3rd page of map points you'll see the points displaying the current situation there. It's a great example of how My Maps can be used to quickly inform people about a local emergency taking place.

US Red Light Camera Map - All known red light cameras in the US, totally over 3300 points on a Google Map.

Virginia Tech: In Memoriam - A Google Map which places locations and life tributes for each unfortunate victim in the recent VT incident. The map pins indicate the hometowns for each person.

Baseball's most valuable teams.. mapped - From a recent Forbes Magazine story.

CoolWorks Job Map - Mapping seasonal jobs at National Parks, summer camps, ski resorts and ranches in some of the coolest places in the country.

Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Mapquest Job Mashup - Mapping jobs from each of these companies.

Plastic Surgeons on Google Maps - Find yourself a plastic surgeon by state, city or zip code.

9 New US Google Maps Mashups

NASCAR Fans - MapRaceWeek.com:

NASCAR fans attending races around the US this season will want to check out this next Google Maps mashup. MapRaceWeek is a Google Maps powered resource for you to find and rate places in and around NASCAR race sites. Heading out to the Talladega Superspeedway on April 29th? Use MapRaceWeek to find places to stay and eat, then get directions or create your own map. [Via ProgrammableWeb]

Ace Hardware Store Locator

Retailers take note - here is a great example of a Google Maps store finder integrated into an existing website. Search stores by city, state or zip code or only show stores with specific services. The user interface controls have also been customized (zoom, map views etc..) and the infowindows that contain information about each store have been well designed. All of this gives this store finder app a unique feel to only this store. Great work!

• Southern California Earthquake Map - Here is a Google Maps mashup displaying real time earthquake data from a seismic network in Southern California . It also dynamically load/unloads XML files of regional faults in the area. Useful for looking at earthquake distributions around active fault zones. The mashup was created at The Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography by Rob Newman.

• 2007 Louisville Kentucky Homicide Map - The Courier Journal newspaper has established this Google Maps mashup to display incidents that have taken place so far this year, as well as past years (03-06)
• A Craigslist Car Parts Google Maps Mashup - Looking for used car parts? Look no further than this Google Maps mashup to help you sift through listings on Craigslist.
• Unique Real Estate Mashup: Traffic Count - The Atlanta Commercial Real Estate Forum has used Google Maps to show retailers and commercial real estate pros the traffic count for the street where a specific property is located.
• South Central LA Graffiti Map - A CommunityWalk.com powered
• Houston Crime Maps [Via ProgrammableWeb]
• New Hampshire Physician Affiliations [Via ProgrammableWeb]

Canada Google Maps Mashup Roundup Part 5

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Royal Bank ATM/Branch Locator - The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has adapted Google Maps for their website by providing mapped results for ATM and Branch Locator searches. The tool lets you search by your present address or specific transit number (if you know it). RBC is also now Google mapping results for travel agencies that are offering their travel insurance products. French links: ATM/Branch Locator, Travel Insurance.
(Other Canadian businesses using Google Maps on their websites: Canadian Tire, The Keg Steakhouse and Bar, Pizza Pizza) Related: Google Maps for Enterprise

• Montreal Metro Map
• Mississauga Crime Map
• Pirana Poker: Free Locations in Toronto, Ontario and BC
• Adventure City Walking Tours: Toronto

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Toronto Star Google Maps Page - The Toronto Star has long been a global media innovator when it comes to using the Google Maps API. Their online team have dropped me a line to let me know that all maps they are displaying online have been centralized to this one page. These maps include: Toronto Traffic Cameras, Toronto Homicides, Afghan War Casualties, Toronto Marijuana Grow Ops. Another great Toronto Star Google Map (although not mapped from this page is: Toronto's Art Galleries.

See past Canadian Roundups (4 other posts) linked from the Google Maps Mania Countries Page..