Interactive Maps

During 2006 we started playing with Google Maps, a tool with enormous potential, but sadly with little information for Argentina, beside the satellite photos. So we found how to integrate them with the maps provided by Microsoft's Virtual Earth that had information about towns and routes in Argentina and streets in Buenos Aires. With this first mashup we created an interactive lodging map for Buenos Aires, where we mapped about 400 hotels, bed and breakfasts and hostels. It was a tedious job, but ultimately rewarded as it was mentioned in several sites of Argentina and the world.

This helped us to follow with the task, creating the interactive maps for Carilo, Córdoba, Mar del Plata, Rosario and Villa General Belgrano during 2010 we created the maps for Las Gaviotas, Mar de las Pampas, Ushuaia and Villa Gesell, with more than 1400 georeferenced places.

We try to enable a new way of searching lodging alternatives in the major touristic centres of Argentina, letting our visitors to see the surroundings of the sites indexed in our directoy

Note: Some of these sites are no longer working
Mira!
(Spanish) Argentina Travel Net has combined its hotel database with Google Maps. The result is very good and anticipates the arrival to the country of Google's cartography. Besides Buenos Aires there is a embrionary map of the hotels in Carilo.

Google Maps Mania
Here is bilingual English and Spanish tourism mashup for the city of Buenos Aires. Solving the challenge of no street maps this Google Maps API site has Microsoft Virtual Earth streets and Google satellite imagery and map controls.

ProgrammableWeb
Map of hotels, apartments, hostels and spas in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with links to their websites. APIs: Google Maps + Microsoft Virtual Earth

Primera Clase
(Spanish) Thanks to our new mania for Google Maps we have discovered a site with a very interesting mashup that shows hostels and hotels in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Indeed, to see maps of Buenos Aires, created a very nice feeling, I don't know if the cartography of the "porteños" streets and avenues used in this map was done by Google or by the Proyecto Mapear.

Miguel Saez
(Spanish) A few days ago I wrote about news about Virtual Earth and I was proposing an application that would show real estate data over a map. Today I found with two sites related to this area that called my attention
The first one is a site called Argentina Travel Net, that plots data from hotels in the city of Buenos Aires. Something that raised my attention about this site, is that uses different services to show the maps. Microsoft Virtual Earth for the hybrid and map mode and Google Maps for the satellite maps.