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Findery is a novel application that allows anyone to run out notes on a Google Map. The notes tin sack hold upwards nigh anything, from information nigh a favorite place to a reminder to pick upwards milk from the local grocery. The posted notes tin sack hold upwards shared amongst the world, amongst a grouping of friends, i to one, or entirely amongst yourself.

Pinning a authorities notation to the map is rattling easy. You tin sack click on the the "Leave a Note" link at the tiptop of the map or conduct the "Leave a Note Here" button. Notes tin sack include text, photos, videos or fifty-fifty a audio clip. When you lot accept submitted a authorities notation to the map your authorities notation gets a unique URL together with hence it is slowly to portion your pinned notes amongst friends or through social media.

Google Maps Street View has proved rattling pop inward a break of online promotional campaigns inward the concluding few years. #FindtheEggs is a skillful illustration of how a promotional motion tin sack hold upwards made to a greater extent than interactive together with fun amongst a piddling help from Street View.

The UK's largest supermarket chain Tesco has used Google Maps Street View to practice a virtual discovery the Easter egg competition. In #FindTheEggs players accept to navigate only about Street View together with collect iii of the thousands of eggs that accept been hidden on the map. Find i together with you lot win a gratuitous chocolate!

Vasile Cotovanu has been inspired past times the novel draggable polygons pick inward the Google Maps API to practice this template for a Google Maps Geography Puzzle. The template allows anyone to practice a game inward which players accept to drag geographical areas onto their right pose on a Google Map.

The code for the Vasile Geopuzzle is available on GitHub together with tin sack hold upwards easily customised for whatever expanse inward the world. To practice your ain puzzle amongst the code all you lot actually necessitate is the GeoJSON information for the polygons you lot want to use.