MagicShop FrontDoor Beta (BING & OSM)
Something to do when your really bored: move address locations for Bing and contribute to OpenStreetMap (OSM)
What’s this? Every time you help Frontdoor correct an address point to the front door you’re improving the local search results in Bing Maps. You’re also contributing address position data under the ODbL to the OpenStreetMap project.
No more details….
Map and Fix some Addresses
http://frontdoor.cloudapp.net/
WeatherSpark Beta– Historical weather patterns visualised
An excellent Google maps mashup -an early contender for best gmap 2011.
“WeatherSpark is a pretty amazing Google Map of current and historical weather conditions. The site lets you view the historical records of over 4,000 weather stations.”
example above
http://weatherspark.com/#!graphs;ws=28726;t=321909;mspp=37115493
Climate Patterns
If you are more interested in today’s weather you can just center the map on your location and view the current temperature and the current precipitation radar
source:
googlemapsmania
Offline Routing comes to Google Maps
Offline reliability New!
Get continuous guidance and automatic rerouting, even if you lose your network connection after you’ve begun a route.
Nokia (aka was Ovi Maps) did have this advantage now seems to be a key part of Google Maps Navigation.
This is important when traveling quickly through areas without mobile/cell coverage. The Route can be changed and no need to connect to internet to adjust your
With Google Maps Navigation the entire data is stored on the device (in vector) form.
What is next for Google Maps – Offline Routing – 2.5D Buildings (example from Google Tablet above).
Offline Streetview (unlikely do to the amount of storage required).
Live Ads (very likely)
Real-Time [Connected to Mobile/Cell Network] – Weather – Google did for a short while introduce Weather.
Custom Overlay – most likely of them all – providing the format and files sizes are quick enough to download.
Link to Google Maps Navigation
http://www.google.com/mobile/navigation/index.html
(see halfway down about Offline Routing)