Google Maps: Redesigned, printing directions with more maps and street view
D' Technology Weblog — ... out redesigned Google Maps, with the new look, you can do all of the same things, but without the extra clutter, and emphasizes the ...

Google explains Georgia map blanks
Web User | News — ... even very basic coverage of a country than see nothing at all. That certainly makes sense, and so we have started preparing data for the handful of countries that are still blank on Google Maps," said Barth. Georgia has recently committed itself to a truce in its hostilities with Russia over the disputed South Ossetia region. However, Georgia said that it had suffered attacks on its web infrastructure , meaning key websites were inaccessible to surfers for several days. http://maps.google.com Back to index

Learning from Google Maps Mapplets
D' Technology Weblog — ... new places with some fun by using Mapplets. To access these Mapplets and many others just go to Google Maps, click on My Maps and then click “Browse the Directory”. You can use two or more at a time to try to find relationships between two things, such as ...

Plugin para Aperture facilita o geotagging
MacMagazine — Uma das novas manias na internet é o geotagging, o qual consiste em adicionar informações geográficas aos metadados de fotos (também chamado, em português, de geoposicionamento). Para facilitar esse processo aos usuários do Aperture, a Übermind criou o Maperture, plugin gratuito que, uma vez instalado, permite localizar uma ou um lote de fotos através do Google Maps sem sair do Aperture. (...) (...) Continue lendo Plugin para Aperture facilita o geotagging (42 palavras) ...

Plugin para Aperture facilita geotagging
MacMagazine — ... , plugin gratuito que, uma vez instalado, permite localizar uma ou um lote de fotos através do Google Maps sem sequer sair do Aperture. ...

Wii Fit y Google Street Maps hacen un mashup interesante
Gizmologia — ... Los hay que se aburren y que crean cosas geniales, como este sistema casero para andar y ver la calle juntando dos cosas, una tabla de equilibrio Wii Fit y Google Street Maps, que te permite ver las calles directamente desde Google Maps. Es creación de un Japonés que ha publicado el como lo ha creado en su blog, pero ...

Google Maps Street View Keyboard Shortcuts
D' Technology Weblog — ...  some of the shortcuts that you can use while browsing Google Maps. With your mouse, you can zoom in and out: double left-click to zoom in on the area you’re clicking, and double right-click (also known as Ctrl+Click for Mac users) to zoom out. If your mouse has a scroll wheel, you can also use that to zoom in and out. ...

Giant tribute to Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin on Google Earth /Maps
D' Technology Weblog — ... , the blog which spotted the image. Despite the passing of 38 years it has kept its coherent shape, and is now clearly visible on Google Maps and ...

Google geolocaliza las búsquedas en móviles
Celularis — ... donde están para geolocalizar la búsqueda. El ejemplo no va a ser irreal en el futuro con “Search with My Location” (buscar con mi ubicación), la nueva función para búsquedas locales que anunció ayer Google para móviles con Windows Mobile. Con la API de Gears Geolocation, Search with My Location encontrará tu ubicación mediante la misma tecnología ID que usa Google Maps. Muchos a esta altura se preguntarán si ahora Google también ...

Google Geo Education in Alaska
D' Technology Weblog — ... and Maps can be used in the classroom. Five Googlers are on their way to Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost inhabited location on the North American mainland. ...

Street View ya está disponible en Google Maps para móviles
Celularis — ... Ahora podremos ver desde nuestros dispositivos las mismas imágenes sacadas de la calle que se veían en el sitio de Google Maps. Por cierto, mucho más útil ...

Google Maps: Market share on rise, closer to MapQuest
D' Technology Weblog — ... , Senior Online Market Analyst for at Hitwise report rated Google Maps as the leader in online mapping services in terms of  features and usability. A new Hitwise traffic data shows that Google Maps trails ...

Google Maps trials video geo-mapping
Web User | News — Web User: IGoogle Maps trials video-geo-tagging Google Maps is currently trialling a new feature that adds geo-tagged videos from YouTube, similar to the way photos are added to the mapping service. The service, still in testing mode, was revealed to Japanese Google Maps users this week. The company asked surfers to send feedback or report any bugs they found. The location-specific video content is activated by mousing-over the 'More' button at the top of the map. Reports say that when the video option was turned on small thumbnails of videos began appearing all over the map of Japan. When a thumbnail was ...

Image Cutter faz uso da tecnologia do Google Maps em navegação por fotos
MacMagazine — ... , desenvolvido pelo UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, permite que usuários façam uso da tecnologia de navegação criada para o Google Maps em imagens quaisquer. ...

Microsoft Virtual Earth or Google Earth?
Gadgetell — ... has partnered with DigitalGlobe to provide searchers with high-resolution mapping images.  Word of this came out only two weeks after DigitalGlobe announced the renewal of its agreement with Google as one of their main suppliers of imagery.  Google and DigitalGlobe have been working together since 2002. ...

Google Maps Gets Voting Fever
Ubergizmo — ... Just in case you were living under a rock with no contact whatsoever with the outside world for the past 5 years, America has to decide on their next President in less than a fortnight's time, and the ramfications of their decision will no doubt affect the entire world as well. Google Maps helps one out with the whole voting thingamajic thanks to the Vote 2008 feature which has been launched today. All you need to do is enter your address and it will provide relevant voting information in that area along with a "Where to vote" location. Neat! ...

Website of the Day: Hookupmaps
GeekSugar — What happens when Craigslist's Casual Encounters meets Google Maps? Hookupmaps! Search the relationship and/or hookup ads from Craigslist by seeing who's geographically closest to you. It's an admittedly unromantic idea, but hey, I'm not here to judge. The two ideas had to merge at some point, right? Web 2.0 technology and anonymous lovin'. Like chocolate and peanut butter. It may not be a story to tell your future grandkids, but by George it's efficient!

Use GSP to Locate Friend with GPS.Friend
SolSie.com — ... GPS.Friend downloads the necessary map from Google Maps service. GPS.Friend is independent from any on-line service, because it exchanges location information directly between phones by ordinary SMS messages.  Download ...

Google Maps ganha retoques na interface
MacMagazine — ... O Google Maps foi atualizado hoje pela gigante de buscas com alguns retoques em sua interface, que incorpora diversos elementos de controle de navegação do Google Earth. ...

Google Revamps Street View
SolSie.com — ... Google just released an update to its Google Maps street view with the navigation controls from Google Earth and made the transition to Street View smoother. Just click on the small yellow man to see the street view imagery for the current location or drag the icon to the correct location. [via ...

Google Maps navigation interface updates
D' Technology Weblog — Google Maps navigation interface is updated with navigation controls from Google Earth and made the transition to Street View smoother. The zoom bar is slightly redesigned, and Street View can now be accessed by clicking on the small yellow person icon (Pegman plucky mascot) above the zoom slider to see the street view imagery for the current location or drag the icon to the correct location. To enter Street View, drag Pegman to a street (or just keep zooming in all the ...

Video option in Google Maps
D' Technology Weblog — ... When you click the “more” button (upper right) at Google Maps, and select a “Videos” option — will show you, a location-related YouTube videos on the map. Other, older More options are photos from Panoramio as well as Wikipedia entries, informs ...

Google implementa camada de vídeos no Maps
MacMagazine — ... Apareceu ainda ontem no Google Maps uma nova opção para a visualização de vídeos, que junta-se às já existentes fotos e artigos da Wikipedia. A partir de agora, usuários também terão acesso a vídeos do YouTube (não se sabe, ainda, se o serviço englobará vídeos de outros portais) com tags geográficas. ...

Top contributors highlights in Google Maps
D' Technology Weblog — ... Google Maps now displays a list of the people that contributed with the most customized maps, reviews and edits related to a location. In some cases, you’ll find helpful maps that show ...

Search tips for Picasa Web Albums
D' Technology Weblog — ... Find photos from a certain location. Go to Google Maps, find the desired location, select “My Maps” and check “Photos from Picasa Web Albums” from the featured content section. The mapplet lets you enter a query and it displays the results on the map. ...

Shipwrecked treasure allegedly found via Google Maps
SlashGear — Treasure hunter Nathan Smith testifies that he used Google maps to find buried treasure in South Texas. Smith also monitored the treasures location with updated satellite images to ensure that no one was poking around long enough to gain legal rights to his findings. The 39-year-old musician from Los Angeles located a 19h century boat, which has a supposed cargo of gold and silver off the Texas Gulf coast.  Smith is attempting to gain rights to dig at the location where he believes the missing ship is. He believes this to be the location ...

Apple tenta patentear interface do iPhone
MacMagazine — ... do World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). A petição leva o título de “Dispositivo sensível ao toque, Métodos, e Interface Gráfica do Usuário para o fornecimento de informações baseadas em localidade, direção e mapas. A requisição começa com a constatação de que a medida que o número de funções em handhelds cresce, torna-se gradualmente mais dificil construir uma interface adequada, e que a multiplicidade de botões pode ser inútil quando lidamos com aplicações como o Google Maps. ...

Google Adds Transit Layer To Maps
Ubergizmo — ... Google is offering more value to its users by throwing on a Transit Layer to their maps, making 50 cities all the more easy to navigate using public transport. Hopefully this initiative will make the tech savvy crowd make more environmentally friendly choices, regardless of whether they are tourists or locals. Before that, Google Maps already shows directions to get from point A to point B via public transportation routes, but this time round you're provided with a layout of the public transit system, allowing you to choose your own adventure, er, route. Hopefully this ...

Google Maps: now display more search results
D' Technology Weblog — ... a new search layer for local search results that activates when there are more relevant results than can show on one page. Instead of just plotting the first page of business results on map, Google plot more of them as small circles. You can click on the circles to get more information about the businesses they represent. The top ten results will still appear in the left-hand pane and as pins on the map. The features is initially launched for Google Maps, but stay tuned for it to be available on other domains in the near future. ...

Sygic demonstra nova solução de GPS curva-a-curva para iPhone no MWC 2009
MacMagazine — ... Além de uma navegação real e completa, o app acompanha alertas de voz, pontos de interesse, suporte para múltiplos países e mapas armazenados na memória (são 2GB só da Europa!). Ele não usa a base do Google Maps, e sim a do ...

Google integra fotos do Panoramio ao Street View do Maps
MacMagazine — ... Em cidades como Nova York,  ...

Google Street View hits the UK
T3.com All — ... faceless corporation? Not a bit of it, says Google, which claims to have 'gone to great lengths' to safeguard privacy, as well as blurring out any faces from images - just in case you were somewhere you perhaps shouldn't have been on the day of shooting. If that doesn't work, you can flag up an image to Google for removal. Or you can forget all that and enjoy the images. And with so many cities to discover, it just might bring a premature end to your working week. Or month. Link: Google Street Maps Related links: [image]

Mazda RZ-8 controlado con un iPod Touch
Gizmologia — ... Esta aplicación es capaz de arrancar y parar el motor, abrir o cerrar el cierre centralizado, abrir el maletero e incluso dar una telemetría del coche. Para una mayor seguridad, gracias a la triaungulación de las antenas de teléfono y el módem que lleva conectado o bien un GPS, puede decir en todo momento donde se encuentra en Google Maps. ...

Dica do dia: integração dos Contacts no iPhone/iPod touch e no MobileMe com o Google Maps
MacMagazine — ... no blog do MobileMe: tanto o aplicativo Contacts (Contatos) do iPhone/iPod touch quanto o Web app homônimo no MobileMe integram-se ao Google Maps, basta tocar/clicar no endereço de quem você quiser. ...

Google Maps ganha camada de webcams
MacMagazine — ... Seguindo os passos do Google Earth, o Google Maps ganhou recentemente uma camada de webcams, que encontra-se no menu “More…” junto de fotos, vídeos, Wikipédia e informações de trânsito. ...

The newspaper industry just gave away another free meal, er Twitter: do they have any left?
Scobleizer — ... Giving away “small” community news like births, deaths, birthdays, etc to Facebook. Free meal #5. Giving away real-time news to Twitter. Free meal #6. Giving away news distribution to Google News and Amazon Kindle, among others. With new sites like Kosmix coming on strong (hundreds of percent of growth month over month). Free meal #7. Giving away restaurant reviews to Yelp. Free meal #8. Giving away traffic information to Google Maps. Free meal #9. Giving away celebrity news to Facebook and Twitter. ...

Google StreetView Guy Takes A Walk With Mom On Mother's Day [Mother's Day]
Gizmodo — Awwwwwwww. Google is just so gosh darn cute sometimes. Like today. They have the little yellow Google Streetview guy walking around with his mom. Happy Mother's Day! Just don't take the little guy and his mom anywhere questionable, which has been known to happen with Streeview from time to time. And because it was so epic, check out this completely off topic video from SNL that aired last night in observance of Mother's Day. [Google Maps, SNL Digital Short - Thanks, Chase] ...

Google Map Maker gets ‘64 new countries and territories’
D' Technology Weblog — ...  new Map Maker data with the following 64 new countries and territories added on maps.google.com. To get an idea of who those users are go to mapmaker.google.com and peek at the bottom right of any viewport. ...

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Apple compra Placebase, una empresa de mapas
Gizmologia — ... Increíble como Apple ha intentado mantener esto en secreto, pero parece que al final se ha filtrado dando pie a todo tipo de rumores y habladurias. Apple en julio de 2009 compró una empresa llamada Placebase, una empresa dedicada a crear mapas online, un sistema parecido al de Google Maps. ¿Qué plantea hacer Apple con esta empresa? Aquí es cuando entra la imaginación, hacer un esfuerzo que no es tan difícil… ¿nada? Bien, lancemos frases al viento. ¿Crear sus propios mapas para iPhone? ¿Mejorar ...

Google proveerá de WiFi gratuito los aviones de Virgin America en navidad
Gizmologia — ... Es una pequeña campaña de marketigng, sí, pero Virgin y Google se llevan bien desde hace tiempo, por ejemplo, a bordo de estos aviones hay un mapa que te va indicando por donde se encuentra el avión, este mapa usa curiosamente Google Maps. ...

Powerful IT for disaster relief
Google Public Policy Blog — ... When disaster strikes in the form of a hurricane, earthquake, famine or flood, information technology can play a crucial role in coordinating a local or global response. Earlier this month, Google hosted over 20 international humanitarian organizations in our Washington, D.C. office for a day of workshops to raise awareness and share experiences about how Google's geographic and data visualization technologies, such as Google Map Maker and the ...

Helsinki Nokia N900 Meetup: The Maemo guys have heart, but is that enough?
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis — ... . The Helsinki event took place in none other than the Nokia Flagship Store, a shop that I used to visit quite often during my usual daily strolls down main street, but have lately been ignoring due to Nokia ( ...

Google Navigator for Android only a matter of time
Android and Me — ... from Waze. Google has the clear advantage of pre-installation on most Android phones. ReadWriteWeb was able to confirm that Google collects route data: According to Dave Barth, the product manager for Google Maps, Google will “find the start and end points of every trip and permanently delete that data so that even Google ceases to have access to it.” If you want more proof Google is using their own map data, just visit Google Maps and look in the bottom right corner. ...

Top 10 Strangest Google Maps, Street View Sightings
Tech Blog — ... Google Maps is great for visiting places you've never been, driving directions, or searching for strange and usual sightings. We've compiled ten of the strangest for your viewing enjoyment after the break. ...