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Twitter is abuzz with what’s happening in New Delhi related to Indian Social Activist Anna Hazare’s arrest who was about to start a hunger-strike demanding action against corruption/blackmoney. Here’s a Twitter Map I created which captures some of the anger, reaction related to this arrest. This map pulls in tweets from in and around New Delhi.
England Riots have been in the news for past couple of days. BBC is reporting that disorder has spread from London to Birmingham, Liverpool, Nottingham and Bristol. One way to gauge what is happening out there in the streets… is to follow tweets from the area. Check out this Google Maps Mashup I created of the tweets related to riots in England. The map animates thru the latest tweets.
Last weekend I created a 3D fly thru tour of Detroit in Google Earth. Uploaded the tour to YouTube. Could not find a appropriate background audio so opted for airplane cabin sound. Here it is:
Mumbai, India was struck by a series of blasts today which resulted in numerous deaths and injuries. There were 3 separate blasts. I have compiled the list of bomb blast locations from various media sources and mapped them out. Here’s a look at those locations in Google Earth (uploaded to YouTube).
Yeah, can someone help me with walking directions from Detroit, MI to Windsor, Ontario?? I turned to Google for directions and look what they are suggesting… heck I am not going to follow those directions… Here check out Google’s walking direction:
Interesting look at Google Trends + Google Maps as it relates to searches for Ford Cars from various countries around the world. You can filter the data with Ford Model, countries, Years from 2004 till date.
The map shows top ten search cities for the selections made along with historical data so you can view how searches have changed over the years.
Thanks to GoogleMapsMania for mentioning this mashup.
For past couple of days I have been looking at tweets from some of the airports. Its really fascinating to see these tweets. You get varied reactions in these tweets. Some folks are just plain happy to have landed back on home turf whereas some are not happy at flight delays. Check out this Google Maps Mashup of the tweets from the airports.
This is awesome!! On the heels of uprisings in Middle East .. here comes the news of Women in Saudi Arabia launching a campaign #women2drive where they are getting behind the wheels in defiance of official ban on female drivers.
Here’s a look on twitter and Google Maps as to what the campaign looks like in Saudi Arabia. It shows location of the tweets tagged with women2drive. It animates thru the latest tweets (the next tweet showing after 5 seconds).
Last week I created my 1st iPhone App on my own personal time. Since location and maps is always on my mind, this idea came to my mind that wouldn’t it be nice if your hand held device would be able to display the latest news from your current location (wherever in the world you may be??).
So I went about creating this iPhone App. Its a very simple App. It use Core Location Framework to get the location information (latitude/longitude). Once you have the coordinates then we make a call to MKReverseGeoCoder delegate methods to get the city state name. Once you have the city, state name then you build the URL to Google News dynamically and get the latest news.
So here’s what it looks like on my iPhone: (captured when driving thru Novi, MI)
So how are folks reacting on twitter to them being laid off or someone else who is laid off. Here’s a Twitter Map I created which shows exactly that. Select the regions (radio buttons) on the map which will show laid off tweets form that region.
Oh BTW I am independent now. So if you have a need for Google Maps/Twitter/YouTube Integration into your website .. let me know. I also am getting into creating iPhone applications using MapKit (including reverse geocoding).
