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Take part in making Google Maps Street View without being in a car.

Great little Google map mash-up. Start digging a hole through the centre of the Earth and find out where you will appear on the other side.

The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don't have to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own comparisons, and share your findings.

Set of literary trips mapped onto Google Earth. Seems like a useful idea but not convinced by the examples I've looked at so far.

Convert Flickr sets that are geotaged to a file that will overlay in Google Maps or Earth.

Interesting first year project that develops multiple skills (teamwork, digital literacy, library search, empathy, etc) through geting students to create walking tours of campus for different audiences. Uses Google maps and social media.

Google version of this book that looks at various ways of enhancing teaching both online and f2f.

"... wearable computers allow people to do things like google information straight into their eyeballs while chatting on the street corner - or project a map overlay on the street in front of them, labeling every store. Or turn the local vacant lot into a wonderland filled with Pokemon characters ready to do battle. This is an augmented reality scenario. Now our technology can actually do this, using smart phones as a crude mobile interface. In these demo videos below, we're getting a first glimpse of what happens when the internet comes out of the box and into the real world"

Convert your Android phone into a NavMan!

Convert your Android phone into a NavMan!

See live tweets coming in on a Google map.