The Video The World Tour

Eleven years agone I created my start interactive map using the newly released Google Maps API. The map allowed y'all to scout YouTube videos of good known tourist locations only about the world.

I tin nevertheless recall the thrill I got when I start worked out how to larn a video to play straight from a Google Map. I besides recall how excited I was yesteryear the concept of beingness able to scout videos of locations only about the basis placed on meridian of close-up satellite imagery of the same locations on a Google Map.

This footling personal history is likely why I'm such a big fan of video maps similar TripGlimpse. TripGlimpse is an interactive map which allows y'all to explore famous locations only about the basis through curated videos.

It is non meant every bit a criticism of TripGlimpse when I tell how footling has changed over the end 11 years of interactive maps. In center TripGlimps is most just the same every bit my start interactive map. It consists of map markers showing the locations of tourist hotspots only about the world. Click on whatever of the map markers as well as y'all tin scout a video tour of the location without leaving the map.

The video map concept is such a smashing agency to virtually explore the world. Using the videos on TripGlimpse y'all tin preview places y'all mightiness similar to visit. If y'all similar what y'all run across inwards the video y'all tin fifty-fifty click through on TripGlimpse to mass a real-life tour of the selected location.