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FoxyTag is a mobile application that alerts you to upcoming speed cameras while you're driving. On your phone you'll see tags marking a speed trap when you're within 15 seconds of a speed camera. The application is interactive in that users help build up this database of speed tags. Mark the various types of speed cameras you encounter along your journey, whether they be fixed, moving, or invisible.
Now FoxyTag has done a couple of Google mashups, making its service available on your iGoogle start page as a Google Gadget, as well as on a Google map as a Mapplet. So now you can find, and map out, where speed traps are known to be, directly on a Google Map. Convenient.
In other Google Maps news, Google will be creating a transit guide for the New York metropolitan area, and Google Maps has also announced its policy change for Street Views. Google Maps embed code has been simplified for ease of use, too. The L.A. Times has recently added a homicide Google Maps mashup to its online service. See here for more Google Maps mashups.