25 Start-up Maps from Around the Globe

From Slovakia with Love is a map of start-up companies, co-working spaces, incubators and investors in Slovaka.

From Slovakia with Love is a good example of how to effectively map a community's start-up industry. The different categories of company can be filtered in the map sidebar. The map includes color-coded and custom designed markers and information windows which correspond to the icons used to filter the company categories.

If you are interested in start-up maps then you have a lot to choose from. Here are some of the other start-up maps that have featured on Google Maps Mania over the years:

Europe
Digital Media Map NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
Startup.io (Berlin and a number of other European cities)
The Berlin Start-up Map
BerlinStartups
Start Vie (Vienna)
StartupLINZ
Madri+d Mapa del Conocimiento (Madrid)
StartupGenome has created maps for France, Italy, Spain, Madrid, Barcelona and Belgium
Swiss Startups

India
Mumbaimade.net
Mapped India

UK
Tech City Map (London)
Tech Britain
Cambridge Cluster Map
Made in NI (Northern Ireland)

USA
Made in NY
ATXup (Austin, Texas)
NewTech Colorado
Represent.la (Los Angeles)

Rest of the World
Represent Map (lots of start-up maps for cities around the world that have used the popular Represent tech mapping library)
Mapped in Israel
Start-up Open House Montreal
Toronto Tech Startup

Hiking in Slovakia on Google Maps

TuristickaMapa.sk is a Google Map of hiking trails in Slovakia. Users can use the site to find hiking trails in Slovakia or use it to plan their own hiking trails.

To search for hiking trails already mapped select the 'Katalóg trás' tab in the map side-panel. You can then select to view a trail on the map from a list of hikes. The length, maximum altitude and estimated time to complete the trail is given for each trail.

When you select a hiking trail it is displayed on the Google Map with an elevation chart of the route. Creating your own trail is a simple matter of just right-clicking on the map to set the way-points of your planned route.

Street View Arrives in Slovakia

Primate's Palace

Google Maps now has Street View coverage in Slovakia. The coverage seems to be pretty extensive covering most urban areas and major roads.


St. Elisabeth Cathedral, Košice