Fews days ago I have decided to put the blogs from my list on Google Maps. Beofre I go any further I would like to thank two individuals that helped me with adding blogs to the map- Wayne Harriman and Jim Reppond. Both of them have helped me to add number of blogs to the map.

As I have stated in my original post, I am not quiet sure how will this map be useful to any of the blogs there. But the experiment gave me an opportunity to learn more about Google Maps and actually inspired me to do few things with it for my other projects and websites.

Putting the blogs on the map proved to be a difficult task in some cases, since it was hard to determine the geographical location of the owners of these blogs. Thus number of blogs ended up in the middle of Hudson Bay, Golf of Mexico and some in the Atlantic Ocean. I will list those blogs below and if you are the author of any of them, just leave the name of your city and state (and country if outside of the US) so I can adjust the map accordingly.

Blogs That Ended Up In Hudson Bay

Blogs That Ended Up In The Golf Of Mexico

Blogs That Ended Up In The Atlantic Ocean

Some Of The Maps Statistics
As of posting this article, the map received 2,000+ views. It is hard impossible to know the actual click through to the blogs featured on the map. Only individual owners will be able to know if they have received any visitors from this map. Although the main page (on Google) is already in Google’s index, it is nowhere near the top results for any relative terms.

What is next?

To be honest I am not sure. There is a way to create “mash ups” on Google maps. When you create a a map on Google Maps, your map has an RSS feed where all of your “placemarks” are are stored. The author (and collaborators) can add ad more “places” to the maps they created by simply importing these RSS feeds from other maps. Bellow is an example of mixing an mashing Google Maps- I have combined a “zoomed” view of Seattle, WA featuring the map of top 100 Real Estate Blogs and Jim Reppond’s North Seattle Neighborhoods Map:

If you don’t mind sharing your own Google Map with me, I can import your map to the map of Top 100 Real Estate Blogs- just leave the link to your map int he comments.

As for adding anymore blogs to the map, this has to be put on hold due to my other commitments. However if you know your way around Google Maps feel free to request and become collaborator. The only requirements that I have is that you must be an author of blog that writes about real estate, not to post to map anything illegal and not modify/delete “placemarks” created by other collaborators.