CNNMoney.com Map of Best Places to launch a Business

CNNMoney.com has created a Google Maps Mashup of Best Places to Launch a Business in America. Oklahoma City leads the list followed by Pittsburgh, Raleigh, Houston, Hartford.

You can also filter the results by State. The red push pin markers when clicked on the map shows a information window which displays information related to population, # of small businesses and number of employees.

Best Places to live in United States (2009) - Mapped!

Fortune is out with its list of 100 Best Places to live in United States and leading the list this year is Louisville, Colorado. Coming in at #28 is the place I live at currently - Plymouth Township, MI.

Even though Fortune has mapped out the data on Google Maps, I have taken the same data and created a Google Maps Mashup with "numbered" markers and also added a search capability (located on the left of the map) which narrows your results by "states".

(data source: FORTUNE)

Plymouth, MN tops FORTUNE's List of Top 100 places to live - 2008

Plymouth, MN tops Fortune's list of Top 100 places to live (2008). It's followed by, Fort Collins, CO, Naperville, IL, Irvine, CA, Franklin Township, NJ, Norman, OK, Round Rock, TX, Columbia/Ellicott City, MD, Overland Park, KS, Fishers, IN. Quoting Fortune:

Plentiful jobs, excellent schools, affordable housing - America's best small cities have all that and more

Check out the entire list of 100 cities in this Google Maps Mashup put together by folks at FORTUNE.