From Wendy Boswell,
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Some very talented people have put together a variety of fun Google maps using the free Google Map API. Here are just a few of the Google Map sites I was able to find on the Web:

• Google Maps Mania: "An unofficial Google Maps blog tracking the websites, mashups and tools being influenced by Google Maps."
• Make your own annotated multimedia Google map: make a Google map of anything using this tutorial.
• Google Sightseeing: an amazing sight with curiosities from Google Earth and Google Maps.
• How to add a Google Map to any web page in less than 10 minutes: learn how to embed a Google Map in your web page or blog.
• Cool Google Maps: a compilation of fun Google maps.
• Google Maps API: put Google maps on your own web site with the free Google Maps API.
• Gmap Pedometer: Track your walking distance with this Google maps mashup.
• Brewster Jennings Protects America: a really fun game ala Where in the World is Carmen SanDiego?; uses Google Maps.
• WikiMapia: a mashup of Wikipedia and Google Maps.
• Gvisit: track visitors to your web site using Google Maps.
• OnNYTurf: New York City subways as viewed through Google Maps.
• Nighttime Google Map: see the world at nighttime with this lovely version of Google Maps.
• Google Maps Plugin: "The Google Maps Plugin enables you lookup your Apple Address Book addresses using Google Maps as well as get directions between your Address Book addresses."
• Google Maps Tour de France: a live tracker of the Tour de France race using Google Maps.

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