After two weeks of intensive testing, the Twitter Search template is ready for release! It is now easier than ever to create interactive maps with real-time Twitter feeds. You can display all tweets from a location or filter results by a specific keyword.

Here is how it works:

Pretty easy! Create your first Twitter map right now.

Here is what people are saying about weather in Vancouver. Check it out in full screen (button in top-right corner).

As with all of our other templates, this one supports all of the standard features of UMapper. You can add custom icons, audio overlays, images and all other previously-released features.

The Twitter search is created using Tweetr ActionScript 3.0 library.

We’ve added [trendy] Google Buzz to the list of sharing options for UMapper maps. If you have a Google Buzz account, simply navigate to the map view page and click Buzz It in the bottom right corner. As with Facebook and Twitter, the details of the shared map will be added to Google Buzz stream. Buzz it!

Two great new features have been added to the UMapper weather template. You can now get weather temperatures and five day forecasts for anywhere in the world. Simply zoom on your location of choice and click on the auto-updated temperature layer to get current conditions and forecasts in that area. In addition, you can switch between Fahrenheit and Celsius to update the display. Check it out:

It is extremely easy to create a weather map with UMapper. The entire process consists of two simple steps and takes only few minutes to complete. Take a look at this video tutorial to see how it is done:

In addition to neat weather features, this template supports all of the standard features of UMapper. You can add custom icons, audio overlays, images and all other previously-released features.

As usual, the weather data is provided by folks over at IMap Weather.

Today we added 23 new icons to our default icon set. In addition to standard image icons we’ve added animated blinking bubbles. All icons are available with your account. Take a look at this tutorial to see how to add them to your map:

Get this video from YouTube or create your first map with Custom Icons.

The full list of our icons can be found here, below are some of them:

These icons are a part of the open source Map Icons project and are available for download under the GNU General Public License v3. We strongly encourage you to download the source (Photoshop , Flash), contribute to the project and design some icons for UMapper!

After a month of testing, the first version of UMapper weather template is ready for prime time. This template makes it easier than ever to display real-time weather radar on your maps. The template is available to all of your current and future maps, here is how you access it:

That is all you need to create a live weather map.

The weather data is brought through a partnership with iMap Weather, we look forward to releasing more weather applications in the future.

The usage of the weather template is limited to 5K views for UMapper Basic, UMapper Premium is unlimited.