New The Google Maps Of The Week

This calendar week Google featured some bang-up maps, too thence it has been hard to resist the urge to simply listing them all. The 2 sites that I get got picked are both bang-up examples of how the Google Maps API tin hold upwards used creatively equally a presentation too marketing tool.

Which is sort of a roundabout agency to tell the my maps of the calendar week this calendar week aren't fifty-fifty maps.


The Production Kitchen has created a rattling unique Google Maps based landing page, breaking novel the world inwards its purpose of custom map tiles. Whilst the purpose of hand-drawn custom map tiles mightiness non hold upwards novel The Production Kitchen's animated map tiles are an excogitation that actually takes the Google Maps API to some other level.

The map itself is a numbered guide to creating the perfect cake. Each phase to the perfect cake has its ain trivial animation. Stage release nine includes a trivial game inwards which you lot tin toss a ball of dough betwixt 2 spoons.

The hand-drawn pattern of the map fifty-fifty extends to the map controls, amongst hand-drawn pan too zoom controls. The map side bar ('Quick Jump') includes handwritten numbered links that forthwith pan the map to the unlike stages inwards creating your perfect cake.


Every yr PNC Bank shows the electrical current cost of each of the gifts mentioned inwards the vocal The Twelve Days of Christmas too compares the cost to previous years. This yr the PNC Christmas Price Index has created a fun Google Maps Street View game to explore the electrical current cost of the twelve gifts.

The game takes the user on a journeying around the Earth using Street View. For example, to abide by out the cost of 2 French doves you lot ask to catch the Eiffel Tower on Street View too abide by too feed 2 hungry birds. Complete the puzzle too this year's cost of 2 French doves is revealed.


And inwards instance you lot missed my round-up of the best maps of the year:

The Google Maps of the Year - Part One
The Google Maps of the Year - Part Two
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