Updated as of February 2018.
Below is a list of links and extension activities for Google Maps. We are excited to bring you updated resources as this page will continue to be updated in the future.
Gallery of Google Maps
- Google Maps Gallery—Google Maps with Data
- Google Night Walk—Explore great cities at night
- World Wonders—Google Cultural Institute
- Google Art Project—Art, Galleries, and Museums in Street View
- Yad Vashem—Remembering the Holocaust
- Dead Sea Scrolls—Digitizing Biblical manuscripts
- Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory—Presenting Nelson Mandela’s legacy online
- Google Street Art—Street Art mapped and archived
- Instant Street View
- Street View Collection—Google Maps
- Colleges with Street View
- ShowMyStreet— Visit your house
- Behind the Scenes—With Google Maps Street View
- Report a Problem—A collection of art based on Google Street View glitches
Fun and Games with Google Maps
- SmartyPins—Trivia in Google Maps
- GeoGuessr—Let’s Explore the World!
- The Secret Door—Drop into new places in Street View!
- Build with Chrome—Google Maps with Legos!
- Google Maps—Pokemon Challenge
- 8-Bit Google Maps
- Into the Wild map
- Book Thief map
- Harry Potter’s Diagon Alley
- QuizUp—Google Maps Challenges for your Android and iPhone
- Teleporter—Instant teleportation to random places around the world
- Johnny Cash has been Everywhere (explicit)—The song animated on a map
- NYC and LA Music Map—Pinpoints the city’s greatest song references—(Source)
- API Demos—More than a map
- Pegman Live—All the artistic versions of the beloved Pegman
Tools and Educational Content
- Google Sightmap—A heat map showing the most-photographed locations in the world
- Build with Chrome—Google Maps with Legos!
- API Demos—More than a Map
- PlanIt! for Photographers (Android App)—All-in-one solution that is designed to leverage the map and simulated viewfinder technologies (VR, AR etc.) to provide the necessary tools for photographers to pre-visualize the scene in combination with the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Milky Way
- Maps Timeline
- Indoor Maps—Map your school or other building for others to explore
- Your Google Map History—See all the places you’ve been on Google Maps with Google Location History
- My Reading Mapped (blog)
- Go Back in Time with Google Streetview (no Delorian required!)
- Moon and Mars—Visit them on Google Maps (watch the video demo)
- Google Crisis Map
- Josh Williams’ site: http://geteach.com/maps/
- Map your Distance: http://www.mappedometer.com/
