Google Map sare searchable and zoomable maps of the UK, Europe, US and other parts of the world. You can find businesses, get directions, and even embed maps in your website.
- Website: Google Maps
- Cost: Free
- Availability: Online
- Top 100 Tools 2011: 38
- Top 100 Tools 2010: 58=
- Top 100 Tools 2009: 67=
- Top 100 Tools 2008: 34
- Top 100 Tools 2007: 36=
Comments from some of those who selected Google Maps as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2009
- I need to go out on visits from time to time, and couldn’t do without Google Maps on my iPhone Stephanie Horden
- Always popular in numeracy sessions, great motivator. Also use for “combining information” in Key Skills ICT projects. Leia Fee
- distances and directions (not to mention distractions – planning trips when I should be working) Mags Amond
Comments from those who selected Google Maps as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2008
- “I like to wander around cities that I visit, but google maps makes sure I can find my way back as well” Ignatia/Inge de Waard
- “navigation. Directions, finding nearby locations, particularly when mobile” Clark Quinn
- “A service which offers maps of cities using Web 2.0 technologies” Jose Carlos del Arco
- “Whether its for business or leisure, map reading isn’t one of my strengths so I couldn’t be without the route planner to get me where I need to go.” Karen Ver
Comments from those who selected Google Maps as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2007
- “particularly the satellite pics, because they let me wander endlessly” Patrick Dunn
- “The possibilities of searching and finding through maps are almost infinite. Read Google’s Geospatial Organizing principles and you will get the idea.” Edwin Mijnsbergen
