San Francisco 1930's Aerial View

The ever excellent David Rumsey Map Collection has put online a huge collection of aerial photographs of San Francisco taken in 1938. They are also working hard on creating a composite image of all the images joined together.

So far 46 of the images have been stitched together and you can view the resulting aerial map of 1930's San Francisco with the help of the Google Earth browser plugin.

The images are also available as a KML which means you can examine the photos on Google Maps as well.

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Legoland Now in Street View

Yesterday's release of new Street View imagery, including Street Views of lots of parks around the world, contained a lot of new imagery for Denmark.

The Danish Street View imagery includes Legoland. Other highlights in the new Danish imagery include The Little Mermaid, the Tivoli Gardens and the Old Town of Aarhus



For a full list of the new Street View imagery in Denmark visit the Google Denmark Press Blog.

Hat-tip: microformats.dk

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Find a Book by Location with Google Maps

Pinbooks is a German language search engine and community for books with stories set in a particular place and/or at a certain time.

The pinbooks home page features a prominent Google Map which animates through the latest geotagged ("pinned") books by the community's members. It is also possible to search the map to find books that are associated with a particular location.

Users of pinbook can use the social features of the site to build friendships within the pinbook community and they can share their actions on pinbooks with their Facebook friends.

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Street View Takes a Walk in the Park

New York's High Line Park

Google has today released Street View imagery on Google Maps of parks around the world, including New York's High Line, London's Kensington Gardens and the Casa de Campo Parque in Madrid.

You can explore the new Street Views by visiting Google's visiting gallery.


Kensington Gardens, London

Via: Official Google Blog

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Ofcom's Digital Communications Maps

Today in the UK Ofcom (the regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries) has published a series of maps to show the reach of digital communications across the country.

Using data supplied by communications providers, they provide a picture of outdoor mobile coverage and mobile broadband availability, as well as Freeview and Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) radio coverage. The maps can be found on the Ofcom Maps Section.

One of the maps is the Sitefinder Mobile Phone Base Station, a searchable Google Map of all UK mobile phone antennas. You can search the map by address or postcode.

Other Google Maps show UK broadband speeds and availability, indicative UK local TV coverage information, digital terrestrial television coverage, mobile phone coverage and digital radio reception.

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Google Maps is a Record

Julien Levesque is a French artist who has created a number of interesting Google Maps experiments.

Street Views Patchwork mixes together three different Street View images to make a new imaginary landscape. Once the page loads - keep watching, as after a few seconds a new imaginary landscape will appear.

Some of these imagined landscapes are truly beautiful. It must have taken Julien an age scouring Street View to find partial Street Views that match so perfectly.


Rock Around the World is a Google Map shaped to look like a record. Click on the map and the record spins around and plays Rock Around the Clock. Once you take your mouse off the map the record slows its spin and comes to a stop and the song slows and grinds to a halt.


Marker Attack is a simple map that uses the marker animations in the Google Maps API v3 with lettered map markers to attack the world with an avalanche of Google Map markers.


Yellow Road places a large number of different Google Maps in a chain. Each map is centred on a different location but each location has been carefully chosen so that it contains a horizontal road across the map. Each road connects with the road in the map to the left and right of it. The result is one long imaginary yellow brick road.

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Google Maps Layer for ArcGIS JavaScript

This script from the gmaps-utility-gis page on Google Code lets you add Google Maps as a layer in ArcGIS Server JavaScript API. The script can be used to add Google Maps as a reference layer in an application that is built on top of the ArcGIS Server JavaScript API.

The finished map allows users to access Google Maps and Street View and all the other Google Maps map layers alongside the ArcGIS map tiles. The Google Maps API is loaded dynamically when the first Google Map is set to visible. This approach will save API load calls as you do not have to load the API unless you use it. This could be useful now that Google has decided to set free usage limits on the Google Maps API.

You can view a demo of the script action and view the documentation here.

Hat-tip: Street View Funny

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