The Advent Map Calendar

The Wondrous Wellington Advent Calendar is equally good a wondrous interactive map, although y'all wouldn't know it simply past times looking at it.

The Wellington, New Zealand Tourist Office has created a gorgeous looking online advent calendar featuring illustrations of good known landmarks some the city. Users tin explore the calendar to discovery today's date, click on the appointment too discovery a voucher that tin live on redeemed at a Wellington business.

The calendar was created using the Leaflet JavaScript mapping library, but instead of using the commons OpenStreetMap map tiles it has created a map from an representative of Wellington landmarks. The result is a beautiful looking Christmas get promoting the urban inwardness of Wellington too local businesses.

Walking Inward The Air On Google Maps

This twelvemonth the Snowman is visiting your street!

It's nigh Christmas, that particular fourth dimension of twelvemonth when nosotros teach lots of particular Google Maps as well as Street View promotional campaigns. This twelvemonth the get-go to become far on the act is chocolate companionship Thorntons, amongst a magical online Christmas Card featuring Raymond Briggs' cute Snowman grapheme (and Google Maps).


The Thorntons Facebook Christmas Message application allows you lot to post an animated Christmas message to a friend inward which the Snowman flies over their household (using Google Maps satellite imagery) as well as fifty-fifty walks downwardly their street (using Street View).

Kaleidoscopic Hyperlapse

Skoda has used the popular Hyperlapse Street View animation tool to practice a cool promotional website for the Rapid Spaceback.

The Rapid Spaceback website lets you lot stance a lay out of animated journeys on Google Maps Street View. To spice upwards the activity the site has added a lay out of filters that you lot tin post away apply to the animated route, including a kaleidoscope or mirror view. You tin post away also select from a lay out of dissimilar soundtracks to accompany your drive.

The site includes a lay out of prepared routes from famous locations to a greater extent than or less the world. You tin post away also practice your ain road past times selecting a starting holler for as well as a finish on a Google Map.

Through The Keyhole Amongst Street View

We arrive at got seen the liberate of a release of Street View guessing games over the final pair of years, with GeoGuessr in all probability leading the means inwards the popularity stakes.

Keyhole Conundrum is a smashing improver to the growing listing of Street View games, which introduces a pair of novel elements into a good used format. In many respects Keyhole Conundrum follows the park rules of play, amongst the user having to approximate the place of a sequence of random Street Views. However Keyhole Conundrum solely uses indoor Street View panoramas in addition to besides solely shows y'all a partial Street View, the balance of the icon existence obscured yesteryear a keyhole mask.

So tin forcefulness out y'all approximate whose identify this is, equally nosotros larn through the keyhole?¹

Hat-tip: Google Street View World

Can You Lot Uncovering Paradise On Street View?

A Town Called Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Paradise is a clever Street View based game released to promote the novel album past times Dutch DJ Tiësto.

The game requires you lot to search the Nevada desert on Street View for the encompass fine art of Tiësto's novel album. The game includes a radar command which shows you lot the administration you lot take away to move to uncovering the encompass art. As you lot wander through the Nevada desert you lot tin heed to music from Tiësto's novel album. The music besides provides a clue inward your treasure hunt, every bit the vocal becomes louder the closer you lot are to your goal.

If you lot larn by to uncovering the 3 covers hidden inward Nevada you lot tin piece of occupation into a depict to win a trip to New York for 2 together with an invite to the Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Town Called Paradise album launch party!

The Non-Independence 24-Hour Interval Map

Alternate history novels accept been rattling pop over the concluding few years. So sure at that spot must move a marketplace set for alternate history maps. Newcastle Brown Ale apparently intend so.

The brewer has released an alternate history map of the States of America inwards accolade of Independence Day. If We Won is a vivid map of the USA showing how the solid soil mightiness expect if the American War of Independence had been won past times Great Britain.

Enter whatsoever town or urban essence into the map in addition to you lot tin honour what the location would move named if the Americans hadn't been in addition to then unhappy most paying a picayune tax. For illustration El Paso becomes Ye Olde Paso, Charlotte becomes North Charlottesvilleford in addition to San Francisco becomes Wolverhampton.

Even if the idea of a USA withal nether the pollex of Great UK turns your tummy it is worth visiting the map simply to banking enterprise jibe out the gorgeous custom map tiles.

Explore Venus Inward Street View

Back inward the twenty-four hours GTA4.net created a genuinely impressive Street View map of Liberty City (unfortunately that map no longer works). The map allowed y'all to explore the whole of Liberty City, from Grand Theft Auto IV, inward custom Street Views created from the game.

The new, upcoming, online multiplayer first-person shooter video game Destiny has simply taken that concept to a whole novel level. To promote the unloosen of the game inward September Activision has created a Street View tour of the game world, which allows y'all to explore in addition to preview the game amongst Google Maps.

Destiny Planet View allows y'all to explore Mars, Venus in addition to the Moon inward Street View. The Street Views seem to endure taken from the existent game-world used inward the game. You tin explore these worlds simply every bit y'all tin inward Google Maps Street View past times panning unopen to inward the custom Street Views in addition to clicking on the arrows to deed forrard in addition to back.


The custom Street Views include an inset Google Map of the planet which y'all are currently exploring. You tin click on the markers inward the inset map to automatically carry yourself to a novel Street View. Each of the Street Views besides incorporate markers which let y'all to lookout adult man videos in addition to thought other screenshots taken from the game.

There's a lot to a greater extent than to explore inward this incredible preview of Destiny. You'll direct keep to respect these for yourself though every bit I've got to larn dorsum to exploring Venus inward Street View.

Hat-tip: Google Street View World

Assassin's Creed On Street View

Last calendar month a a Street View tour of Mars, Venus in addition to the Moon was unleashed to promote the liberate of the upcoming, online multiplayer first-person shooter video game 'Destiny'. The Destiny Planet View Street View tour allows you lot to explore in addition to preview the game basis of Destiny using interactive panoramas powered yesteryear Google Maps Street View.

Ubisoft has straight off entered like territory yesteryear releasing a Street View tour of Paris inwards lodge to promote the Parisian based Assassin's Creed Unity. Project Widow takes you lot on a night-time tour of modern solar daytime Paris. As you lot tour the Street Views of modern solar daytime Paris you lot tin click on markers to acquire well-nigh the causes of the French Revolution.

Whereas the Destiny Planet View advertisement provided a tour of the Destiny game world, allowing you lot to preview the graphics of the game, Project Widow is to a greater extent than of a tour of acquaint solar daytime Paris. The tour is inwards fact to a greater extent than like to the recent Google Night Walk, a narrated Street View tour of Marseilles at night.

However every bit you lot walk or in addition to then the modern solar daytime Paris at nighttime inwards Project Widow you lot tin genuinely detect yourself all of a abrupt transported to the game of Assassin Creed Widow. So far I've establish ane Street View panorama which seems to endure taken from the game (screenshot above). I'm certain if you lot explore Project Widow yourself you lot volition detect to a greater extent than panoramas taken from the game.

Hat-tip: Google Street View World

007 Street View

Your mission, should you lot select to bring it, is to rails downwardly the enemy agents together with remember the stolen files.

On Fri the motion-picture demo 'Kingsman: The Secret Service' opens inward the United States. The film, based on the comic majority The Secret Service created yesteryear Dave Gibbons together with Mark Millar,  tells the storey of a immature street tiddler recruited into the cloak-and-dagger service yesteryear an older spy.

In a novel promotional website, Become a Kingsman, you lot must bring on the business office of the top dog grapheme together with examine your espionage skills inward social club to successfully larn a spy. To larn a cloak-and-dagger agent you lot involve to consummate a let on of missions, which involve maps, Street View together with video footage from the actual movie.

One mission involves you lot tracking downwardly suspects using Street View imagery of London's King Cross station. During the mission you lot involve to role your radar to uncovering the suspects inside the station together with set the suspect who truly has the required intel.

Hat-tip: Google Street View World

The Province Rover Drivers Map

When it comes to map based promotional campaigns or together with thence automobile manufacturers opt for a fashionable Street View based interactive game. For example, run into the automobile campaigns featured inwards this postal service on The Top five Street View Car Ads.

For their latest promotional get Land Rover has instead chosen to usage a social sharing get centered or together with thence a Mapbox generated satellite map. Well Storied invites Land Rover drivers to portion their Land Rover adventures together with photos amongst the residual of the world.

The get encourages Land Rover drivers to promote the construct on social media past times posting stories, videos together with photographs to Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, Facebook or Instagram. The vantage for promoting the construct is that the postal service caould hold out added to the Well Storied map.

To run into to a greater extent than mapped based promotional campaigns cheque out the promotional tag on .

The Jurassic Globe Interactive Map

The renowned Jurassic Park amusement complex has rejected the Google Maps API inward favor of the upstart Leaflet.js mapping library. When the world's favorite dinosaur inhabited subject common decided to practise a novel online map for Jurassic World they turned non to the mammoth Google build but instead chose the Microraptor similar independent mapping platform of Leaflet.

The Jurassic World Map is a custom designed, oblique view, interactive map of the world's latest, together with simply about nation virtually exciting, subject park. Visitors to the common tin role the
map to abide by the place of hotels, restaurants, residue rooms together with all the park's best rides together with shows.

With the Jurassic World Map y'all accept no excuse to larn lost when visiting the park. In fact the entirely matter missing from this map is the place of the emergency exits - together with I'm certain y'all won't hold out needing them.