Many of you that are familiar with tools like CartoDB and Mapbox will see a bit of familiarity to this project that Google has recently put out.
It's worth a look at when it comes to storing public information and then ultimately defining a visualization profile to represent the data.. which can then be published for direct access through Googles map viewer.
If anybody has an example project they would like to see mapped into this, I'm happy to help import the data and define a styling.