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google maps now has indoor maps for android. it can tell you what floor and what stores

Indoor LBS comes to Google Maps

daily 8.23 http://www.psfk.com/2010/08/rap-map-mapping-lyrical-content.html crowdsourced mapping project using rap lyrics to extract significant cities in the rap community and offer some background on them

Indoor maps

"Like seemingly every startup currently exploring an ad-supported business model, Waze has gone native for its ad platform. Typically startups wade into advertising by working directly with brands then erecting a self-serve platform down the road. Waze sped things up. The company began testing ads in its U.S. app over the summer, working directly with Zipcar, Best Buy and a number of fuel brands and convenience store chains; at launch it has added Procter & Gamble, Dunkin' Donuts, Wyndham Hotels, Whole Foods, Jamba Juice, CircleK and Kum & Go to its advertiser roster. The direct sales channel continues, but Waze has also set up a self-serve platform for its most basic ad units. The self-serve platform operates on an auction model with floor prices set at $1 per thousand impressions. In addition to a branded search result, marketers can pay to plot branded pins at their locations on the Waze map. When users click on these branded pins, they can click a link to the company's website, a number to call the location or-borrowing the idea of drive-to advertising popularized by driving navigation company Telenav-a button that would navigate them to the location."

Atlanta: http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/4981400669/in/set-72157624812674967/ All maps: http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/sets/72157624812674967/with/4981400669/ press "Detail" on the lower left to get a list of thumbs with city names! EDIT: It's really interesting how segregated Atlanta is. If you cross check it with a heat map of housing prices of Atlanta, it's almost a 1:1 mapping of the dividing lines: http://www.trulia.com/home_prices/Georgia/Atlanta-heat_map/

Quadstreaker is a location app based not around nudity (though levels in the game are called "bare," "undercover," "commando," etc.), but around connecting real-world "streaks" by physically visiting square areas on a map grid. The point is to go lots of places in order to fill in your own world map and compete against friends.

Me likey, three content marketing "maps."

foursquare checkins show up on your facebook maps

Chevrolet is making a radical departure from its approach to turn-by-turn navigation services. After using parent company's General Motors' OnStar service since its inception, Chevy is offering a competing alternative in its Sonic and Spark automobile lines. Called BringGo, it's an integrated smartphone-dashboard system - Chevy's first attempt at a bring-your-own-maps nav service to any of its vehicles.

We've seen a couple of Google Maps oriented executions recently. It seems like they're looking to glow this space open for gaming.

mercedes came up with "escape the map" game where you have to navigate your way through an interactive experience and complete challenges before your head gets blurred out.  when you finish you are entered in for a chance to win the car

aisle411 -- retail mapping -- helps customers locate products in stores

projection mapping of a historical clock in prague 

H&M projection mapping execution for their opening of the flagship store in Amsterdam 

Weekly 12.2

Curated list of some good projection mapping executions. I don't think the H&M one is in here, which is a real bummer.

Haiti is using cell phones and Google maps to track fraud reports.

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projection mapping installation on wheels. wandering truck projects images in various locations