As of May 6th the Gulf of Mexico oil spill covered at least 2,500 square miles of ocean surface. You can see the extent of the damage on the How Big is the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill map.
Using the Google Earth browser plugin you can even compare the size of the oil spill to major cities around the world. For example, in the image above you can see the oil spill laid over London. Incredibly the oil spill would stretch from Cambridge, in the north, to Brighton on the south coast.
Google's Crisis Response Team has created this Google Map to show the extent of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The map includes a number of layers that can be selected to view on the map.
The layers include the images from NASA'a Modis and ESA's ENVISAT. You can also view an Oil Slick Overview from the U.S. Coast Guard, the current spill extent from the State of Louisiana, the observed spill from the State of Louisiana, fishing closures, locations of the booms and points of interest.
To discover the world with Google Maps, Gloe is a new application from HP Labs.
It lets you tag web content to specific geographic locations. The aim is to provide a platform for location-based discovery of information for mobile web users.
Using Gloe from a mobile you should be able to view a map that shows you webpages relevant to points of interest around you, local news and on-line reviews of local businesses.
The site includes a Google Maps interface that allows you to browse Gloe from your desktop browser. At the moment Gloe is pre-populated with articles from Wikipedia. However as Gloe develops and users start adding content to the map you should also be able to find geo-tagged news, local business reviews or anything on the web that has relevance to a specific location.
Users can add content from the web using the Gloe bookmarklet. Once you download the bookmarklet when you are on a web page that has content specific to a location you can click on the bookmarklet and add the page to Gloe.
References from:
http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/
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