New The Google Maps Of The Week

Yarr, Pirate Maps uses the Google Maps API to practise a distinct pirate themed map, consummate alongside animated waves, birds together with pirate ships. There may non endure much serious intent behind the map simply I am impressed past times the results together with the imaginative piece of occupation of the Google Maps API pinnacle service together with the Google Places library.

One impressive characteristic on this map is how the send together with moving ridge map markers are solely placed inwards the sea, the sea-gulls solely look virtually the shore together with trees solely look inwards parks. The pinnacle service of the Maps API is beingness used to decide body of body of water together with shore locations. The Google Places API is beingness used to honour the locations of parks.

Alex Wellerstein's NukeMap has proved to endure a real pop Google Maps mashup.The application allows users to persuasion the probable number of unlike sized nuclear explosions on whatsoever location inwards the world, using Google Maps.

Much of its popularity comes from the fun of blowing places upward on a map. I hateful what could endure ameliorate than that?

Blowing things upward inwards 3d - that's what. Alex Wellerstein's novel app, NukeMap3D, uses the Google populace browser plug-in to permit users to detonate nuclear bombs on their chosen location together with persuasion the number inwards glorious 3d.

Now you lot tin forcefulness out persuasion the number of your dastardly deeds mushrooming inwards a higher house the 3d buildings of the cities you lot target. If you lot choose the 'animate mushroom cloud' selection you lot tin forcefulness out fifty-fifty persuasion a tiresome displace animation of your bomb exploding.

SaferRoute is an interesting assay to practise a road planner that avoids areas alongside a tape of high crime. Using offense information from Lothian together with Borders Police Reports, this Google Maps app volition provide move directions, for Edinburgh, Scotland, that assay together with avoid offense hotpsots inwards the city.

If you lot go into ii addresses into the app you lot volition endure shown a Google Map alongside ii routes highlighted. The safest road is shown inwards greenish on the map together with the fastest road is shown inwards red. Beneath the map turn-by-turn directions are likewise given, alongside each street on the journeying given a security rating.