Maplandia.com: A Google Maps/Earth hybrid
Martin Frohlich from Maplandia has just brought his new mapping site to my attention.
There are other sites that let you search for the world's place names. Some of them even link the result to Google Earth. But none that I have seen do such a thorough and seamless job of using Google Maps and linking to Google Earth. Add to that a whole raft of features and usability functions, and the whole is quite impressive.
First off, there are extra layers on the Google Maps, such as country border outlines. There is also extra context, such as links to neighboring countries and their places. You can search places, or browse locations by country, and in every case there is a Google Map handy. If you drill down to a specific place, there is a link to Google Earth.
One thing I particularly like about it is that appending a country name to the maplandia.com URL gets you there right away. That's simply the fastest way to get an instant map of, say, Colombia that I know of. Another nice touch is that maplandia goes out of its way to offer you the ability to search its database from other sites.
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This is just wonderful!! Does Mr. Martin Frohlich offer his sources for locations of populated places, admin? Can we get an idea of how accurate say... the location for Ambilivily Madagascar is??
Emelie
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Posted by: Emelie at 15:58 UTC, December 06, 2005
is the 20 dollar upgrade worthwhile for non gps users?
Posted by: CONRAD SCHMIDT at 16:38 UTC, December 31, 2005
Pretty good
Posted by: paul at 1:52 UTC, July 22, 2008
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Posted by: Almaz at 21:16 UTC, November 14, 2008
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