Google announced today My Maps, a new feature of Google Maps to create and personalize your maps with lines, shapes and placemarks. You can see the new My Maps tabs in Google maps beside results. For those who find the API difficult to use, no worries, you can now play with Google maps on the fly and create amazing maps of your trips or anything you want. Google blog is showing many interesting things that you can do with my maps :
- America’s Highway: Oral Histories of Route 66: A glimpse into life on the legendary (and now-decommissioned) highway, and what drivers will find there today
- Around Japan in 28 Days: Catalogs a trip across Japan that can be done in 3 weeks
- 2004 Presidential Election: Red states, blue states, and election stats for each
- The World of Hello World: A map of programming languages and rough locations in the world where they were created
- Olympic Host Cities: Cities that have hosted the Olympic Games with links to related Wikipedia information
- The Googleplex: A photo essay on life at the Google headquarters in Mountain View
- Monster Sightings: Locations of monster sightings across the globe
Very easy to use, but you can always check the user guide for help about using Google My Maps
