Burp's mission is to help you find the best restaurants for specific types of dish.
Currently Burp has four Google Maps, two maps showing the restaurants serving the best burgers in the San Francisco Bay and Los Angeles areas and two maps showing the restaurants serving the best Ramen in the same two areas.
After clicking on a restaurant map marker you can click through to read other users' reviews of the restaurant, the restaurant's Yelp rating, the number of Facebook 'likes' and the number of foursquare check-ins.
Monuments: Diversity, Democracy and Freedom The City Project has created a Google Map to help showcase Los Angeles' diversity. The map shows the locations of monuments in the city that celebrate diversity, democracy and freedom.
Each official monument shown on the map is an example of a site that demonstrates historic significance because it reflects or exemplifies the diversity of Los Angeles. Monuments have been chosen that are a testament to the important contributions of people of color, women, and workers or because they stimulate and promote a greater understanding of diversity, democracy, and freedom.
You can search the map by location or you can use the links in the map sidebar to zoom directly to a specific monument. The map has missed a trick by not adding an option to view the monuments in Street View, although a photograph and description is provided for each monument on the map.
The Los Angeles Times is becoming a prolific user of Google Maps. Here are just some examples of how the paper has used the Google Maps API to help illustrate news stories and give their readers access to local data.
Mapping L.A.'s Neighborhoods The LA Times’ neighborhood map of Los Angeles County is a Google Maps interface to individual maps and statistics for 158 cities and unincorporated places and 114 neighborhoods within the city of Los Angeles.
The map allows readers to click on one of the highlighted regions on the map and then select an individual neighborhood. Once you have selected a neighborhood you can view information about schools, income, demographics and news from the area.
LA Magnet Test Scores A Google Map created to compare the test scores of Los Angeles' magnet schools with other magnet schools and to their host schools.
L.A. Farmers Markets A Google Map guide to Southern California farmers markets. It is possible to browse the markets by location and by the day of the week.
Where the Westside Starts The Westside has no official defined border. Therefore the LA Times decided to ask its readers how they define the Westside.
The Times then produced two Google Maps; one to show The Times' definition of the Westside's geographical boundary and one to show the readers' ideas.
Ideum create technology-enhanced visitor experiences for museums and other public settings. They have just created a multitouch exhibit for the California Science Center.
The exhibit consists of an interactive multitouch enabled Google Map with KML overlays allowing visitors to pan and zoom around the L.A. Basin while learning about the weather patterns, wind currents, geologic make-up, and vegetative patterns that have shaped the landscape of southern California.
Thematic overlays illustrate on the map phenomenon such as fire risk, water supply, Santa Ana wind patterns and fault lines. Geo-tagged photo and video content, managed by Flickr, is displayed across the map. Visitors can explore this content through the use of intuitive gestures, building the basin's story through discovery. Flipping the images over reveals embedded metadata to assist the exhibit narrative.
The exhibit uses Ideum's multitouch and multiuser table platform, which allows several visitors to explore content simultaneously. Using multitouch gestures, users can scale, zoom, and pass virtual objects around the table.
Los Angeles Storm Map According to the California Geological Society more than 100 Californians have been killed by debris flows during the past 25 years. Slopes left denuded by wildfires in California are especially susceptible to "mudslides" during and immediately after major rainstorms.
Just such a rainstorm yesterday caused a mudslide in the La Cañada Flintridge area. The Los Angeles Times have created two Google Maps in response to the latest mudslides. The second of the two maps on the LA Times website shows the areas considered by the U.S. Geological Survey to be most at risk of mudslides.
Google Map of the LA Marathon Route The official site of the Los Angeles marathon has produced a Google Map showing the route of today's course. The route map shows the start and finishing points and uses numbered map markers to indicate drinking points along the route.
The official site of the marathon has also produced a Google Map Spectator Guide. The map shows Entertainment Centers on the route. The Entertainment Centers are neighborhood street festivals. All of them are sure to be great places to watch today's run. The map also shows you where live bands will be playing and where cheerleaders will be performing.
HyperCities With content generated by architects, historians, urban sociologists, and archaeologists, as well as the general public, HyperCities is a Google Maps mashup of historical maps of some famous world's cities. Currently the site has a series of historical maps for Berlin, New York, Los Angeles and Tel Aviv.
For each city the historical maps are listed under the Google Maps interface. Clicking on a year loads the historical map for that year as an overlay on top of Google Maps. The map markers on the map can also be viewed by their historical relevance. At the top of the map is a timeline slider which can be used to load map markers for any historical period.
Cartifact Maps Cartifact Maps, has today released a major update to their visually enhanced version of Google Maps. The new release enhances the current Los Angeles maps and adds maps of Manhattan.
Here is a short screencast showing off Cartifact's amazing lens tool:
In LA, Cartifacts have assembled an incredibly detailed map of 1887 LA and added it to their innovative lens tool. In NYC, there is a building level detailed map of Manhattan below Central Park. The lens tool for New York features a Historic tab with an 1865 Sanitary & Topographic map for the Council of Hygiene which shows all the original water courses of Manhattan Island and is from the David Rumsey Map Collection. Another new addition to the lens tool is an Oblique 3D Buildings view rendered by Union Design for CB Richard Ellis.
Cartifact Maps beta v1.1 launch coincides with this year's Where 2.0 conference in San Jose where Cartifact Labs Director Bruce Daniel will be conducting a workshop on "Thinking about Map Design" and presenting to the conference a personal survey of visually rich maps.
