Map Channels Version 4.08 Update

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Map Channels, the popular Google Maps creation tool, has released a number of new features in its latest update.

Map Channels allows users to create a map with data held in a KML file, a Google Spreadsheet, a GeoRSS feed, tab delimited text or a Google Fusion Table. Map Channels also allows users to add data manually with the 'Edit' feature.

Version 4.8 of Map Channels includes some new features such as the ability to add a transit and weather layer to a created map. Users can also now add links in the header of their maps that show near-by events and near-by hotels.

The latest update to Map Channels also adds a few more customisation options for users and also gives the user the option to locally host a map or to embed it in their own website or blog. A full list of all the new features and improvements in version 4.8 is available on the Map Channels home page.

Your Mapper Adds Heat Maps

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Your Mapper has added some exciting new features to it's mapped data visualisation application.

Your Mapper provides an easy to use application that allows users to create and visualise data on a Google Map and embed the created map in a website or blog. Your Mapper has used the new HeatMaps layer in the Google Maps API to add a new option to view data as a heat map on a Google Map (for example the screenshot above shows a heat map of greenhouse gas emissions in the USA).

One really cool feature of Your Mapper is that you can visualise data added by other users. So using the links in the map sidebar you can view heat maps for lots of different data sets, from the density of nursing homes to the locations of catholic churches in the USA.

Your Mapper has also added a number of other interesting features such as the option to view a transit layer, a global cloud coverage layer and has also implemented a new muted map style which helps to emphasise the data added to the map.

Own Virtual Property on Google Maps

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Geopieces is a new location and event sharing application.

After you log-in to Geopieces with your Facebook account you can share your location with your friends by adding a marker to the Geopieces Google Map. As well as sharing your location you can use Geopieces to add events to the map, write a blog entry at a location, or leave tips and reviews about venues.

Geopieces users can also add their photos and videos to the map and even add website links to venues on the map.

When you first log-in to Geopieces you are also given 5,000 Geocredits. You can use your Geocredits to own part of the Geopieces map. Users can develop their Geopieces on the map and can even earn more Geocredits if other users visit or add markers to their Geopiece.

Transit Tweets on Google Maps

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Transid's RER Tweet Map is a heat map of over 4,000 Tweets in Paris that mention the RER (Paris' rapid transit system).

The map uses the new HeatMap layer in the Google Maps API. This visualisation of the Tweets quickly reveals that (maybe unsurprisingly) that many people mention RER when they are at a station or when on a train.

The map includes a number of options that allow you to adjust the display of the HeatMap layer on the map. The Google Maps API gives developer options to adjust the radius of data points, the opacity of the layer and the colors used. Transid's RER Tweet Map has created buttons to allow the users to change these elements themselves to adjust how the heat map displays on the map.

The 1812 War on Google Maps

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In 1812 the United States of America declared war on the United Kingdom thereby beginning the War of 1812.

Brock University has put together an interactive display of geo-referenced historical maps examining some of the invasions of Upper and Lower Canada. The War of 1812 in Maps allows the user to view historical maps of locations of significant battlefield sites and compare them to the current landscape.

The application overlays the historical battlefield maps on top of Google Earth (using the Google Earth plug-in). The user can navigate to the maps by using the links in the map sidebar. It is also possible to adjust the transparency of each map by using a map transparency slide control.