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A new Google Maps website has been released called QuikMaps. It allows users to draw and scribble over a Map and place different marking icons. Though this has some useful and professional uses, I can bet that we will start seeing several country maps with “redrawn” borders .

Local News Maps

Juan Taylor has created LocalNewsMaps.com, a Google Maps websites that allows people in the US and Europe to view news through a Google Maps application. Users simply enter a keyword and hit search; red balloons then populate the map and link to news stories related to the keyword. Try it out!