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Toronto Google Maps Mashups Compendium
What do you get when you take a great city, the Google Maps API, and creative individuals with coding skills? You get 29 fantastic Toronto "Google Maps Mashups".
Whether you're looking to grab a six-pack of beer, trying to figure out where to get off the subway to meet your blind date, planning your next scenic jog, trying to evade red light cameras in your car, or looking to satisfy your chocolate craving, there's an interactive Toronto map for you!
I've scoured the web to come up with a variety of food & drink, transit, housing, arts & entertainment, education, sports & leisure, and photography oriented Google Maps mashups for Toronto.
This might be a post you'll want to bookmark! :) Oh, and if you have any cool or useful maps to add, please drop the URL in the comments and I'll add it to the list.
Restaurant Listings
Beer, Liquor, and Wine Store Locator
Coffee Shop Locator (Tim Hortons, Starbucks)
Dim Sum Finder
Chocolatier Finder
Pub Finder
TTC Subway and Go Train
TTC Subway, Bus, Streetcar, and Go
Transit Fastest Route Finder (buses coming soon)
Taxi Fare Estimator
Live Traffic Cameras 1 | 2
Rentals 1 | 2 | 3
For Purchase TOlofts
Housing 123 (integrates with MLS listings)
Public Library Locator
UofT Campus Building Finder
Ryerson Campus Building Finder
Nightclubs 1 | 2
Live Music Venues
Running Routes
Walking Tours
Golf Courses
Wireless Hotspots (1)
Wireless Toronto
Art Galleries (1)
Toronto Star Gallery Tour
Photo Tours (3)
Virtual City
Envision Toronto
360capture
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Hi, I'm a big hockey fan and I love watching the play off race, I noticed that some one forgot too put The Boston Bruins in the race on thurdays paper!! Not a big Deal but if you want to get rid of a team can you plaese get rid of Montreal or Senators or hey lets just give the leafs the cup?
Movemap is giving me results but they don't seem to be following the legend.
I thought I saw a "Red Light District" map. For a moment there I thought I had a plan for this Saturday.
Can anyone else get the first housing "for purchase" mashup to work (grassisgreener.ca)? It keeps telling me there are no listings at all!
Hmmm... looks like grassisgreener is broken!
Wow, this is awesome. I especially love the public library locater. But that's because I'm a geek.
Movemap.com is also not working...
But this is brilliant all the same!
Lookup locations worldwide on satellitepictures easy by address and online?
Try PICSFROMSPACE, Lookup Your Place By Address!
Since september 12th available at:
http://www.walweb.nl/picsfromspace
Thestar.com was an early adopter of GoogleMaps (now Google Local) for interactive news features. Most of our maps can be found at thestar.com/maps .
Three in particular have local interest:
"I especially love the public library locater.
Glad you like it, Sameer. All that cutting and pasting solidified my own geek status pretty well.
Added TO Mapster (fastest transit route finder).
Don't forget about this one. Great Toronto walking tour!
http://www.adventurecitytours.com
Added walking tours. Thanks!
This is genius.
...and another. Indie culture social mashup Tupalo, currently testing in Toronto. Tupalo Toronto
I've been geotagging lots of photoblog postings, videos, Wikipedia entries, etc... around Toronto - http://wholemap.com/map/area lists the popular areas, or you can just wander the city at http://wholemap.com/map/index.php
http://www.alltorontopubs.com/map is a pretty extensive Toronto pub/bar listing mashup site as well...
Extensive Golf Course listing including weather and driving directions
Extensive Golf Course listing including weather and driving directions
http://www.okfairway.com provides extensive Golf Course listing including weather and driving directions
Toronto MapList is new mashup. Please check it out
Okay, so where's the Google maps-restaurants mashup? The link above is just BlogTO's restaurant listings...
Places to cut your own christmas tree around Toronto. Most of the farms opens December first and run almost till christmas
Mashup of wineries around Toronto: http://www.wineriesontario.com/toronto
Check out this list on FunkyList.com:
Shopping malls, Outlet malls, Power Centres around the GTA (Greater Toronto Area)
http://www.funkylist.com/ViewList.aspx?id=202&name=Shopping+malls%2c+Outlet+malls%2c+Power+Centres+around+the+GTA+(Greater+Toronto+Area)
You can also easily create your own custom google map mashups on FunkyList.com. Here is another great example of another google map mashup:
Shopping malls, outlet malls and stores to shop in Buffalo, New York
http://www.funkylist.com/ViewList.aspx?id=200&name=Shopping+malls%2c+outlet+malls+and+stores+to+shop+in+Buffalo%2c+New+York
Search businesses/Gas stations/Restaurants along the route using Google Maps (POI along the route) http://screeperzone.com/2007/11/12/search-business-locations-on-your-way-using-google-maps-poi-along-a-route/
You have to register to use it (free), but check out www.carpoolzone.ca which uses Google maps too
Find grocery store locations in Ontario for the following stores:
Loblaws, No Frills, Food Basics, Price Chopper, Sobeys, Dominion, A & P, Ultra Food & Drug, The Barn
You can also see the available services, hours of operation, directions and map out your grocery route to
see how much gas it will cost you.
Find grocery stores close to you
at http://www.grocerysavings.ca/ontarioCanadaGroceryStoreLocationsMap.asp
Here's a website that has done the Street View for Toronto:
http://www.pixelcity.ca
Hey Jerrold,
When you have a second, please add:
Toronto Skating Rinks: http://toronto.sportaholik.com/skating
Toronto Shinny Rinks: http://toronto.sportaholik.com/shinny
Thanks!
Here is an online resource of map mashup sources from York Region, just north of Toronto.
http://maps.york.ca/YorkExplorer/YorkGeoWeb.htm