NCAA Men's Basketball Championship History on Google Maps

Check out my NCAA Mens' Basketball Championship History - Google Maps Mashup which I had created couple of years ago. It shows locations of championship teams, the runners-up, championship venues from 1939 to 2008. You can sort the data by Scores, Miles traveled by winners and losers.

GM's Rick Wagoner Ousted - Tweets from Mid-Western United States

News broke last night that GM's Rick Wagoner has been ousted by the OBAMA Administration. This is big news here in the Mid-West. So I decided to look at who is twittering what in the mid-west and I ended up creating a Google Maps Mashup of tweets from Mid-Western United States. I took Chicago as the base city and looked for tweets within 600 miles radius from Chicago.

AIG Campaign Contributions - Google Mapping Top 100 Recipients

The Outrage over AIG bonuses continue and now bunch of media outlets have published names of politicians who have received campaign contributions from AIG. One of the sites I looked at was Opensecrets.org.

So I have taken the data from opensecrets.org and mapped it out on Google Maps. The map shows home locations of politicians who have received campaign contributions. Majority are concentrated in the North East.

(Note: Thanks to Keir Clarke of Google Maps Mania for mentioning this mashup in his blog)

(Note: Also check out AIG outrage "Tweets" on Google Maps)

AIG Bonus Outrage (Tweets) in America!!

There is a lot of talk currently on Twitter related to the outrageous bonuses given to AIG execs with the taxpayer money. I decided to look at twitter for tweets related to AIG. I took this information from Twitter along with User's location and mapped it out on Google Maps.

There are two buttons at the top left corner of the map which are labeled "Eastern Untied States" and "Western United States". The map defaults to "Eastern". If you click on "Eastern United States" button then tweets are shown from within 1500 miles radius of "Cincinnati, Ohio". If you click on "Western United States" button then tweets are shown from within 1500 miles radius of "Los Angeles".

"Unemployed" Tweets

With the current state of our economy, I decided to look at twitter for tweets with "Unemployed" keyword. I took this information from Twitter along with User's location and mapped it out on Google Maps.

There are two buttons at the top left corner of the map which are labeled "Eastern Untied States" and "Western United States". The map defaults to "Eastern". If you click on "Eastern United States" button then tweets are shown from within 1500 miles radius of "Cincinnati, Ohio". If you click on "Western United States" button then tweets are shown from within 1500 miles radius of "Los Angeles".
(Thanks to Google Maps Mania for mentioning this mashup)

The World's most Dangerous Airports

I bumped into a site called oddee.com which lists the world's most dangerous airports. I have taken this list along with videos from YouTube and created a Google Maps Mashup. Take a look at the 747 landing at Princess Juliana International airport (St. Martin). Wow!

Medical use of Marijuana by State

Here's a Google Map of states where according to this article "marijuana is now, for all practical purposes, legal in 13 states. thanks to Obama".

The map shows the 13 states which allow use of Marijuana for Medical purpose. It also shows usage of Medical Marijuana as of January 14th, 2009 (source: procon.org)