A long-running blog that showcases maps and mapping projects built with Google Maps and other mapping tools.
HN commenters link it as a source of map mashups and standout posts, such as Amsterdam during WW2 and Kandinsky-style Mapbox maps.
From the post:
"Tomorrow I'm going to feature the very last Google Maps on Google Maps Mania,
The blog now gets 10% of the Google search traffic it did just 18 months ago. With Google attempting to kill off Google Maps Mania it would be like a turkey voting for Christmas for me to continue to promote Google Maps and the Google Maps API.
Last week I came very close to giving up completely. But despite Google I still think there is an audience for the blog. So from Wednesday Google Maps Mania will be featuring maps created with Open Street Map, Map Box, Leaflet and other map providers.
If you have any Google Maps you want promoting you have about 24 hours left to submit them to Google Maps Mania."
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The blog is at: http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.co.uk/
I would like to add that @mourner, Leaflet creator, gave a great talk last week in San Francisco about why he started Leaflet and how the open source community developed around it. Talk is here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQAl43Aj_B0&feature=youtu.be).
One thing that I think is missing from this article is the communities around these projects and release cycles. Leaflet by far has the most active community around it. Where Open Layers 3 has been chugging along without a release for a while, and Google Maps API has remained pretty stagnant. A great post from Keir Clarke (http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-slow-death-of-google-maps-api.html) that is spot on.
There is a kind of maps where the territory is deformed according to time employed by this (or that) connection, I think they are called "time cartograms"[0], probably in the case of France it wouldn't be so extreme, but I remember one made of Italy where the country was very short north-south and very large west-east, because most of the high speed railway connections go in the north-south direction, and actually crossing the country from the Tirrenic to the Adriatic coast takes nowadays the same (or more) than before world war II.
[0] http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2017/12/how-time-can-bend-space.html
blog of Google Maps mashups. Sometimes they don't need much programming
http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/
dedicated apps:
http://www.appbrain.com/app/beer-map/net.chrislehmann.beermappro
http://www.androidtapp.com/where/
http://www.yelp.com/yelpmobile
I second matomesc's point: learning Javascript will let you write your own mashup, which gives you more customization.
Pretty cool; but amateurs can do almost as well with Google maps and Google Earth:
http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2009/01/short-flight-of-1549-on-google-maps.html
Teterboro must have been really tempting, a successful ditching is anything but a sure thing, if one of the wings had caught the water before the other the plane would have started tumbling at over 100mph.
The article mentions 100,000 recommendations made on Nextstop. Great. Chance has it, but I came across http://www.geckogo.com/ via http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2010/07/get-up-go-with-geckogo.html today and it has about 975,000 discoveries and 200,000 reviews. Seems like the Plenty of Fish for travellers, and I'll be examining it for why it has become that way.