An Army of Pigmen on Google Maps

My Trackbook

My Trackbook offers a multilingual platform to share your maps with the world. It's also a site where you can easily find public Google Maps submitted by others.

The homepage consists of a global map. You can zoom in on the area of your interest, choose different categories and click on markers to go to the submitted maps that they represent.

To submit a map you simply submit the URL of the Google Map or a KML/GPX file. After approval your map will be added to the site and you can submit more maps.

This site is worth checking out if only to watch the embedded videos in the Seinfeld Location and Scenes Map, ("the government has been experimenting with pigmen since the 1950's").

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Explore the Earth with PublicEarth

PublicEarth

PublicEarth is a 'wiki for places'. The site uses Google Maps as the means to display crowdsourced location recommendations. Registered users can rate places, get personalised suggestions, create collections, or add comments about added locations.

The unique selling point for PublicEarth could be the huge number of categories of locations. PublicEarth has over 450 categories, these include the usual categories such as restaurants and entertainment but also more esoteric topics such as 'Nut Harvesting and 'Glass-blowing Studios'.

The site allows the user to plan a trip or a day out and then send the saved locations to a GPS device, a mobile phone or e-mail them to friends. PublicEarth also lets you display your saved places on your own website or blog by creating and embedding a widget.

The site even comes with an API that allows developers to access PublicEarth's huge database of recommendations.

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