Google MyMaps
Google recently launched a new feature for their Google Maps site that allows you to create your own personal maps and share them. One of the samples they developed to showcase the technology has some pretty interesting educational/historical/humanities content. It’s a map of oral histories collected along Route 66.
Click the orange markers to see photos, the blue markers have oral histories including videos of the interviewees answers.
You can create your own maps with whatever points you want, then choose whether to make the map public or private. According to the documentation, public maps will be “included in the search results on Google Maps and Earth”. I’m not real clear on exactly what that will look like. Anyone have any ideas how that might play out?
To learn more, go to http://maps.google.com/ and click the “My Maps” tab.
