BuddyMapping

With the growing popularity of social networking sites and online gaming communities, your circle of friends can often extend across the continents. BuddyMapping helps you keep tabs on your virtual contacts.

Using the architecture of Google Maps this site allows you to create your own personalised maps and then invite friends and contacts to pin themselves to their location, adding a picture, email or web address and even a link to their MySpace or Facebook pages.

Just register using your email address and password, then give your map a title, description and a dedicated URL extension that makes sense. Then you can email this URL to others in your community, or link to it from a forum or website. Participants need only click the orange button to add themselves to the map, no registration needed, and you'll begin to build up a picture of where you all sit in the world.