Links • My Maps Plus - easily embed Google My Maps into your website or blog. My Maps Plus is the forerunner to Map Channels and has a large collection of shared maps. It is recommended to use Map Channels for embedding maps as this site has a wider range of features. • Mashed Hotels - worldwide hotel search using Google maps. • Mashed Tickets - worldwide event and ticket search using Google maps. • Google Maps Mania - An unofficial Google Maps blog tracking the websites, mashups and tools being influenced by Google Maps. • Google Maps API - Programming Google maps. • Official Google Maps API Developer Blog - Latest API News for Map Developers. • Google Maps API Tutorial - Mike William's excellent collection of tutorials and resources for the Google Maps API. • Programmable Web - Authoritative source for Web 2.0 Mashups and APIs. News, analysis, and more. • Webmashup.com - Open Directory for Mashups & Web 2.0 APIs. • Google Maps Directory - Google Maps Directory covering mashups, tools, resources, developers, websites about google maps. • Hot Scripts - Directory that compiles and distributes Web programming-related resources, geared toward webmasters, developers and programmers looking for enhancing their Web sites and intranets with dynamic development tools. • Andre Lewis - author of DragZoom, GeoKit, and "Google Maps Applications with Rails and Ajax". • Jasob JavaScript Obfuscator - The ultimate solution for JavaScript. A useful tool to compress and speed up javascript code. • Maps For Free - provide the relief layer available as an option within Map Channels. • Codango - PHP/JSP/ASP/.NET scripts, resources and reviews. • Frixo.com - UK road traffic reports and travel information using Google maps. • Ogle Earth - Ogle Earth brings you news about virtual globes, with a special focus on Google Earth. • MapCruzin - Providing the GIS tools, maps, resources to help you reimagine the world through maps. • Free Geography Tools - Exploring the world of free tools for GIS, GPS, Google Earth, neogeography, and more. • Digital Urban - Digital Urban is written by Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith, aimed at examining the latest techniques to visualise the city scape via digital media it covers a lot of the work going on at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London. • My Digital Life - Living Digitally and Electronically. • Google Operating System - Unofficial news and tips about Google. • Slash Geo - Slashgeo is a bridge across space and time to gather the community of the geospatially interested. • Mapperz - The Mapping News Blog. • Streetviewr - a user generated gallery of interesting Google street views. • Virtual Tourism - Video mapping of tourist attractions. • Google Earth Blog - Google Earth news • Old Ordnance Survey Maps - displayed using Google Maps with good UK coverage and a comparision feature to compare old maps with the current map. • www.ajaxload.info - create free animated loading images • The Society of Cartographers - Society founded in 1964 aiming to support the practising cartographer and encourage and maintain a high standard of cartographic illustration. • EM Maps and Graphics - Bespoke maps and graphics, Brochures & reports, Leaflets & flyers, Logo Design, Office Stationery. • MakeUseOf.com - Websites, Software and Internet Tips. • www.wolfpil.de - Good Google Maps code resource.