Mapping the Blitz

Where I live in the East End of London you can view the effect of the London Blitz on the landscape and architecture of the city almost ever...

Find a Tennis Court with Google Maps

All My Courts is a handy search site for tennis players to find nearby tennis courts. The site currently includes details and location in...

UK Road Accidents on Google Maps

The UK Road Accidents Map is a Google Map that shows the location of all the reported road accidents that occurred in the country during 20...

The UK Census on Google Maps

This morning the UK's Office for National Statistics released a new map that compares data from the 2011 census with the 2001 census. ...

Explore the UK's Wildest Terrain

Honda are promoting their CR-V compact SUV car in the UK using Google Maps Street View. In order to encourage potential customers that the...

Tweet to Zoom on Google Maps

Nectar, a UK loyalty card scheme, has released a Google Maps based competition, the Nectar Daily Deal Hunt , to promote the launch of Nectar...

UK National Statistics on Google Maps

The UK's Office for National Statistics is using the Google Maps API and Google Fusion Tables to help visualise a number of economic a...

All Your Property Search on Google Maps

mapthatpad is an amazing application that allows you to map real-estate listings from a variety of online sources. Using the app it is po...

Searching for Property with Google Maps

Locatable is an interesting new real-estate application to help house hunters find properties to buy in London. The app lets users define...

Boris Bikes on Google Maps

If the Google Maps API is the most used API in existence then the London Cycle Hire scheme must be one of the most mapped data sources using...

London Wards on Google Maps

The Greater London Authority has released a Google Map providing demographic and related data for each ward in Greater London. The Ward At...

Tracking Birds with Google Maps

Birdfeeders.com are using Google Maps to crowdsource the tracking of migrating Hummingbirds. The Hummingbird Migration Map allows anyone ...

Amazing Royal Navy Visualisation

The Guardian has today published an amazing Google Maps based animated visualisation of one million locations of Royal Navy ships during WWI...

The Literary Landscape on Google Maps

The British Library's recently held a 'Writing Britain' exhibition exploring how the landscapes of Britain have influenced gre...

Restricted Zones in London on Google Maps

The Manifesto Club has released a Google Map called Banned in London which shows the location of 435 special zones in the UK capital wher...

Tracking Non-Native Plants with Google Maps

The Environment Agency and the University of Bristol have released a new smartphone application and website to help track invasive non-nati...

Transit Planning for People with Disabilities

D-Trekkers is a crowdsourced public transport planner for people with disabilities or accessibility needs in the UK. The service allows any...

Tracking Bald Eagles with Google Maps

The Raptor Resource Project are using Google Maps to track two Bald Eagles, 'D14' and 'D1'. D14 is a male bald eagle who ha...

Real-Time Instagram Olympics Map

It's a gloriously sunny day here in London as we enter the last two days of the 2012 Olympics. If you want to share in the excitement of...

Displaying Housing Data with Google Maps

UK charity the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has created the Housing and Neighbourhoods Monitor to provide analysis of key housing and neighbo...