I think we have clearly established how I’m finding reasons to create personalized Google maps for anything greater than 2 destinations within a city :D.
For the past few weeks, I have been combining that useful app with the latest thing to turn my whimsical head: Eagles in the City, public art/sculpture/painting that can be found in locations across the Vancouver Lower Mainland and beyond.
I have not particularly enjoyed the past two installments: orcas from before I moved here and the tail end of the spirit bears when I first arrived. …

View Cambie Street Corridor in a larger map
It started innocently enough when I wanted to map the grocery stores (green pins) in my neighbourhood, the Cambie Street Corridor (or Cambie Village, if you please) since a big competitor is set to open its doors on April 29.

Why did I not play with Google My Maps until now??
I’ve already become dependent on Google products, deeply integrating them into my life: GMail, Google Reader (106 subscriptions), Google Documents (my comprehensive to-do list and documents I share with NPY), Google Calendar (I have 2 calendars for separate activities) and, until recently, I was using Blogger by Google.
Using Google My Maps came about first because I was using it for work. For that case, I couldn’t stab and change the placemark colour for my 1,000+ points so I started learning …