The Stella Artois Christmas Carole app, which is available on Facebook, lets users enter a recipient’s name and address so they can receive a personalized message from a Marilyn Monroe-like singer and a band playing a holiday tune.

The Google Maps platform is also being used creatively by spirits maker Stella Artois, which came up with a clever, sexy and enjoyable way to allow customers to send personalized video holiday messages to their friends around the world. So get out there and share some great images from Instant Street View.” The map app is built on the Google Places Library Autocomplete Service, which makes it work, and then it uses the Street View Service to display the Street View panoramas, according to Marks. “As you type, it rapidly updates the page with images from Google Street View until you get where you want to see.” That’s what makes it so incredibly useful and appealing. “ Google, we find this approach very appealing,” wrote Marks. Users can even share the images they find on social media sites. With Instant Google Street View, you simply type the address you are searching for into a simple search box on the screen and as you type, you are taken directly to an image of that place, without any manual finagling of Street View. 29 post by Mano Marks of the Google Maps developer relations team, on the Google Geo Developers Blog. Well, you don’t have to do that anymore, thanks to Instant Google Street View, according to a Nov.

You know how when you use Google Maps to find a Google Street View image how you have to pinpoint the place on the map and narrow down your search before your end result pops up on the screen? It’s a bit laborious. Here are some of the most fascinating map apps sites, which are being created by developers around the world using Google Maps APIs, that we’ve uncovered recently here at eWEEK:

Innovative new Google Maps applications are being invented every day, bringing users myriad fun and creative ways of seeing information in fresh ways.

Google instant street view map