Google Map examples (*comprehensive / design & function)

Mapping Main Street, A collaborative Documenatary Media Project,
http://www.mappingmainstreet.org/

*historyPin, (best example)
http://www.historypin.com/

Sound Seeker,
http://www.soundseeker.org/

Guided Video walks using Google maps (example of movie controled map, vis versa),
http://walking-the-edit.net/en/

*LA Crime Map, (non google map layer, but interesting interaction data)
http://oakland.crimespotting.org/

Baltimore Crime, Crime Baltimore,
http://crimebaltimore.com/
Baltimore Sun crime map,
http://essentials.baltimoresun.com/micro_sun/homicides/
Baltimore Police Department,
http://www.baltimorepolice.org/your-community/your-district/southern-district/maps

*Historical Map Collection, David Rumsey (excellent use of graphic overlay)
http://rumsey.geogarage.com/index.html

Excellent example of toggle transparency,
http://rumsey.geogarage.com/maps/g4613057_058.html

*2010 Census Interactive Population Map, (non google map layer)
http://2010.census.gov/2010census/popmap/

Census Data,
http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/

*Fairmount Cemetery map,
http://www.fairmountcemeterypresqueisle.com/map.html

Cemetery Map via Google Maps
http://www.laudontech.com/cemmap/test5.php5

*Norway and Swedish map (very good integration of information—frames of data streams)
http://www.nrk.no/hurtigruten/?lang=en

Global Detention Project,
http://www.globaldetentionproject.org/home.html

Morocco Detention Profile
http://www.globaldetentionproject.org/countries/africa/morocco/map-of-detention-sites.html#map-google

Map overlay – image
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/groundoverlay-simple.html

SpotCrime, Brooklyn and Curtis Bay
http://www.spotcrime.com/md/baltimore/brooklyn-curtis+bay

Layer KML,
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/layer-kml-features.html

Google Map Tools
Google Fusion Tables / locations specific databases [spread sheets]
http://www.google.com/fusiontables/Home

Spatial Humanities,
http://spatial.scholarslab.org/
http://spatial.scholarslab.org/stepbystep/gps-adding-points-from-a-file/

SIMILE Widgets; Free, Open-Source Data Visualization Web Widgets, and More
http://www.simile-widgets.org/

Evaluation HTML 5 google maps tool,
http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2011/06/html5-elevation-with-google-maps.html

other examples perhaps off topic,
good design /concept, Paint your street (user input – interactive)
http://www.paintyourstreet.com/TutorialPage.aspx

Google Mapping Technical Info and Links:
GoogleMaps API
http://www.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/

Find the GPS coordinates for a specific address in the US:
http://geocoder.us

Google Maps Mania:
http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/

VGMap by Eyebeam:
http://vgmap.eyebeamresearch.org/

Yahoo Maps, an alternative online mapping system:
http://ws1.inf.scd.yahoo.com/maps/documentation.html