New The Google Maps Of The Week

This calendar week nosotros saw ii slap-up examples of crowd-sourced Google Maps. AXS Map is a slap-up resources for finding accessible buildings, whilst Bostonography are busy soliciting opinions on Boston’s neighborhood boundaries.



AXS Map is using the Google Maps API to crowd-source as well as review accessible buildings as well as venues.

You tin search AXS Map for accessible venues past times searching for a type of venue as well as a location, e.g. restaurants inwards New York or java inwards San Francisco. The results of each search are as well as thus displayed on a Google Map. Venues that accept already been reviewed for their accessibility are displayed on the map alongside a greenish map marker.

If you lot click on a reviewed venue you lot tin discovery out if the edifice has a broad entry as well as if it has ramped access. You tin also discovery whether the restrooms are accessible. As AXS Map is a crowd-sourced platform users tin also contribute their ain reviews of a venue's accessibility.


Bostonography is running a projection to discovery out where Bostonians believe their neighborhood boundaries lie.

The projection is using a Google Maps tool which allows participants to depict on a Google Map where they intend Boston neighborhood boundaries run. This has allowed Bostonography to exercise a map of all the amalgamated responses thus far. 

The results for each neighborhood are also beingness analysed to come across which neighborhood boundaries participants accept a potent understanding well-nigh as well as to highlight areas where in that place are contradictory opinions well-nigh which neighborhood they belong to.
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