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Valentine's Day is a good excuse to be romantic, though there's nothing keeping you from being romantic all year round, or ignoring this day completely, for that matter. Since love is in the air, and on the web, you can share your best or most memorable kisses with the world and place them on a map, anonymo... |
14 February 2012
19:01 GMT |
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Google is enabling a sort of "Web History" for Google Maps and it's welcomed addition unless you're a bit paranoid about privacy. Now the My Places tab displays your previous Directions searches as well as the route you selected.The idea is to make it easier to go back to a search that you've already c... |
14 February 2012
12:41 GMT |
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Google's Map Maker has been responsible for populating great expanses of the world in Google Maps. With help from volunteers and their knowledge of the places they live in has helped Google Maps provide detailed data in many countries where it wouldn't have had otherwise, either because such data is non-exi... |
14 February 2012
11:31 GMT |
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Google has updated aerial imagery for 23 cities in Google Maps. People in 14 US cities and 9 international ones can now explore their home towns from a bird's eye perspective.
Aerial imagery is a step up from satellite imagery that, while fairly detailed, can't go too close to the ground. What's more,... |
8 February 2012
08:20 GMT |
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After two years of waiting, Street View cars are once again allowed to roam the cities of the Czech Republic. Officials there had some reservations about the project, specifically, they believed the cameras were mounted too high and would peak into people's private gardens and inside houses.
Google has agreed t... |
4 February 2012
09:31 GMT |
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Very recently, Google Earth received a major imagery update which dramatically improved the way land tiles were displayed. Countries and continents can now be seen as one continuous mass.
But Google isn't done yet, it's now addressing the other two thirds of the planet with a huge update to underwater terr... |
3 February 2012
02:30 GMT |
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Google has been found guilty of unfair competition in France and ordered to pay €500,000 or $660,000 in damages along with a €15,000, $19,675 fine. The court found that Google was abusing its dominating position in the market by giving away Google Maps for free.
Bottin Cartographes, a company that offers a... |
2 February 2012
07:11 GMT |
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Google is making it easier for businesses to add panoramic images, similar to the ones in Street View, to their Google Places entries, which also show up in Google Maps and Search. This way, potential visitors will be able to get a feel for the place before they come.
Already, Google has made it possible for some bu... |
27 January 2012
09:11 GMT |
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Google has released Google Earth 6.2, a new version of the very popular software. The app comes with several new features and improvements, the biggest and most obvious being that the entire planet is now covered by one smooth satellite image.
Technically, it's still made up of many smaller images, but they fo... |
27 January 2012
05:41 GMT |
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A couple of years ago Google Maps introduced support for bike trails. The feature was very useful for those wanting to use their bikes more, since they were able to find out if they can reach a location, safely, in advance.Now Google is moving more into that direction by introducing new way of displaying different ty... |
26 January 2012
15:42 GMT |
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Owners of Android-based devices can now download new versions of a series of applications coming from the company.
Among them, we can count Goggles, Listen and Maps, all of which have just seen new versions being released in the Android Market.
Google Goggles is said to have tasted the widest range of enhancement... |
26 January 2012
11:42 GMT |
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Google Maps is adding a very useful new feature, a public alerts layer which can help you find out about various emergencies and also get more info on them and their progress.
"Today marks the launch of a new Google Crisis Response project: Google Public Alerts, a platform designed to bring you relevant emergency al... |
25 January 2012
12:21 GMT |
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Google is wasting no time in updating imagery in Google Maps. Already, it's at its second update of the year for aerial imagery. 24 cities now boast new images to provide a fresher perspective. Most are in the US, but there are several cities in Europe and one in South America as well, in Brazil."The second 45&d... |
24 January 2012
19:41 GMT |
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It seems that Google has now rolled out a new Google Maps feature, searching for a city, a country or a ZIP Code will return a map with the contour of that city or country highlighted. Google has been testing this feature with some users for a few weeks at least, it was spotted in December by some.
The move makes se... |
21 January 2012
08:41 GMT |
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Galaxy S II is the hottest smartphone from Samsung at the moment. The South Korean mobile phone maker is aware of that and is set to let us know it as well.
Thus, it published a new video as part of the latest marketing campaign for the mobile phone. The same as the previous video ads for the Galaxy S II, the new ... |
21 January 2012
04:03 GMT |
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Google has responded to the accusations that one or more people, coming from IPs belonging to Google, have been vandalizing OpenStreetMap the wiki-style map project. It said that the two contractors that were responsible were acting on their own and that they are no longer working with Google.
"The two people who ma... |
18 January 2012
04:41 GMT |
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Google has been on the defensive this past couple of weeks. It introduced the Google+ integration with search to quite a lot of criticism, most of it warranted. Then came even more troubling news that it, or a third party contractor hired by Google, was engaging in rather unethical business practices in Kenya, scrapi... |
17 January 2012
08:25 GMT |
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Google's Street View cars, trikes, snowmobiles and so on, roam all the time capturing everything. And everything in this case doesn't only mean all the buildings, all the streets, all the landmarks, it means countless moments of everyday life captured for eternity*.
There have been plenty of weird, interes... |
17 January 2012
05:21 GMT |
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Google is constantly updating the satellite imagery used in Google Maps and Google Earth. However, new imagery is published in batches every several weeks. In the latest update, Google has unveiled high resolution satellite imagery as well as aerial imagery for many, many locations around the world.New aerial imagery... |
14 January 2012
16:11 GMT |
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Google has debuted a cool new ad for Google Maps, a service that rarely gets advertised, it's too well known for it to need it. But Google is doing more and more ads for its products and once you see the video, you'll be glad they do.
Google is returning to a familiar theme with the latest Google Maps ad, ... |
13 January 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Google is not wasting too much time in the new year and has announced that Chile is the next country to get Street View imagery. In fact, Street View cars are already roaming the streets and paths of several major cities in the country, snapping photos that will be incorporated into Google Maps once they're pr... |
13 January 2012
07:51 GMT |
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Google constantly adds new or updated imagery to Street View. Some of the images from the places it's already visited may be several years old now. Granted, cities don't really change that fast, but newer images are a bonus. At the same time, Google is working on adding more locations, not just streets, but... |
12 January 2012
09:41 GMT |
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Google is teasing a new game coming to Google+ soon. Interestingly enough, the game is built by Google itself. Even more interesting, the game is based, quite literally, on Google Maps.
From the teaser video Google unveiled, it looks like the game is in the vein of On the Ball, Marble Madness and Rolling Madness 3D.... |
11 January 2012
10:41 GMT |
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Google has expanded its indoors support in Google Maps with the addition of several locations in Las Vegas including the Las Vegas Convention Center where this year's CES is underway. Attendees with an Android device will be able to find their way on the convention floor. Interior maps are only available in the ... |
11 January 2012
08:11 GMT |
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Google has just made available for download a new flavor of its popular Google Maps application for devices running under the Android operating system. The latest flavor of the mobile application arrives on devices with a series of improvements related to the battery performance. Users who will download and inst... |
11 January 2012
04:50 GMT |
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Google Earth is great on its own, it's a wonderful tool for discovering our world, one that would have seemed Sci-Fi even a decade ago. It's easy to take things for granted though.
One of the great things about Google Earth is that it is possible to add all manner of data to it, making it a tool in which o... |
9 January 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Google Maps, especially with Street View is great for exploring the world. What's more, since there are entire countries covered, there are places that you're never going to visit in real life and which you probably wouldn't want to.This makes it possible to follow a tour of some giant Santa statues, s... |
24 December 2011
06:31 GMT |
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Santa is making the final preparations before he heads off to distribute presents to the children of the world. With his reindeer-powered sleigh, he's able to travel great distances incredibly fast. But not fast enough to escape the latest tracking technologies.
As has been the tradition for several years now N... |
23 December 2011
14:21 GMT |
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It's no big secret that Google likes Easter Eggs. These past few days alone, several holiday-related ones surfaced, granted, they're not really that hidden and they're the traditional Easter Egg, in the sense that they've definitely been placed there to be discovered by a lot of people.
But you d... |
21 December 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Google just unloaded a huge batch of updated imagery for Google Maps and Earth. There is now updated high resolution satellite imagery for, well, much of the world and there are also new aerial images for several places in the US and a couple in Europe, including Paris."The Google Earth and Maps Imagery Team has done... |
16 December 2011
14:01 GMT |
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One great thing about the web is that it's global, it's (mostly) the same for everyone. At least that's the theory; in practice, local governments censor what they don't like, sites serve different versions to different countries and so on.
Sometimes though, a bit of local customization is a good... |
15 December 2011
15:41 GMT |
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For the past few months, Google has been feverishly updating all of its products, painting them in the new team colors, i.e. the new universal Google design is live on more and more sites.Google Maps was one of the very first products to get a new coat of paint, after Google+ debuted and Google Search adopted the new... |
14 December 2011
13:11 GMT |
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Google has spent the past few months collecting and processing images from areas in Japan hit by the March earthquake and tsunami. It has now published the imagery online, in Street View, making it available to everyone.Google also built a special site which shows before and after Street View images from the area. Fo... |
14 December 2011
03:11 GMT |
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Google Earth is fun on your tablet, but it's even better on your big-screen monitor. Imagine then how it is on 48 huge screens stitched together.
A few years back, Google unveiled Liquid Galaxy, a multi-monitor setup that enabled viewers to completely immerse themselves in Google Earth.
About a year ago, the ... |
14 December 2011
02:21 GMT |
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There are plenty of ways to explore the world in Google Maps, but a fun one, where available, is the 45 degree mode. In cities where Google has managed to get a hold of aerial imagery, it makes for a much more detailed view and it's also more useful as a guide than top-down satellite imagery.
Not to mention, it... |
13 December 2011
06:01 GMT |
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Google Maps started out as a simple tool to bring maps online, but it has evolved well beyond that, due to the big opportunities and capabilities of the web. One thing that makes the map more useful and more interesting are 3D buildings.Google has been working on adding 3D data and models for years now. You can see p... |
10 December 2011
08:41 GMT |
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Recently, Google has started making short video, you can call them ads, to highlight some of the ways people use its products for extraordinary results, from winning $1 million to discovering supernovae to unearthing archaeological sites.In the latest such video, Google tells the story of Professor David Kennedy, a R... |
9 December 2011
15:31 GMT |
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Google has updated the mapping data for the UK, Germany, Finland and Sweden. This isn't just some minor update or tweak, or else Google wouldn't make too much fuss about it. Google Maps now has a lot more info and data for those countries.
"You may notice many improvements to Google Maps in these countries... |
9 December 2011
08:31 GMT |
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Google has just made available for download a new flavor of its Maps application for Android, aimed at resolving a series of issues that the previous release came with.
The new Google Maps 6.0.1 app flavor is available for download in the Android Market with the aforementioned fixes inside, aimed at a series of new... |
8 December 2011
07:52 GMT |
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Google has dominated online mapping ever since Google Maps came about and its Google Earth plugin didn't really have any competition. Online mapping isn't a particularly lucrative business either and it's quite expensive, not to mention hard, to maintain and evolve this type of service. Which is why t... |
7 December 2011
08:46 GMT |
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Google is making it easier to find places that are part of a larger structure. For example, individual shops inside shopping malls are now highlighted in Google Maps. Instead of simply getting a place search result indicating a store's address, you also find out that it's housed inside a larger complex.
"W... |
6 December 2011
11:21 GMT |
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December is here so there's really nothing holding anyone back from into full "Christmas holiday" mode, which can either mean the holiday spirit or Santa Claus overload.There's still plenty of time to get fed up with all of it though, for now, you can start preparing for Christmas with one of the newest and... |
1 December 2011
17:41 GMT |
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Google is now taking the next logical step for Google Maps. After covering pretty much all of the surface of the Earth, with varying degrees of detail, it is now tackling indoor locations.
The idea is to help you navigate indoors as easily as outdoors. This is especially useful for large locations and unknown places... |
1 December 2011
07:21 GMT |
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A new flavor of Google Maps for Android is now available for download on devices running under Google’s Android operating system, bringing along indoor maps, along with a new places screen and a new manner in which users can switch between the features available in the toolbar.
The main enhancement, however,... |
30 November 2011
01:38 GMT |
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Earlier this year the people of Queensland, Australia, were hit hard by Cyclone Yasi and the subsequent floods. Tens of towns and thousands of people were affected.
But it's during times like this that heroes are made, like a helicopter rescue team that ended up saving 43 people stranded during the floods.
The... |
24 November 2011
15:31 GMT |
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Google is adding an interesting twist to its Maps service. It is now using your ratings from Hotpot, now part of Google Places, to highlight plates you may like on the map.These places will be marked and you'll be able to see that you've rated them previously."This list is now being used to personalize your... |
15 November 2011
14:51 GMT |
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Google has just made available a new version of the highly popular Google Maps application for devices running under its Android mobile operating system.
The new flavor of the software arrives on devices with a brand new feature that will offer a series of users the possibility to find events from the Place pages... |
12 November 2011
04:59 GMT |
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Google is announcing a new Model Your Town Competition, the 2012 edition. The goal, as before, is to encourage communities to create 3D replicas of their towns and regions for Google Earth and Maps.Since this is a competition after all, the winning town, besides the fact that it will be represented in 3D in Google Ea... |
11 November 2011
06:31 GMT |
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Google has just added a bunch more images to Street View, of famous and beautiful parks around the world. Among them is New York's famous High Line park, which has been converted from a freight lane going through Manhatan which had been abandoned.Soon enough, nature took over, and wild flowers and grass started ... |
1 November 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Are you a fan of Google Maps and a fan of Halloween? Who isn't, now you can combine your two passions with the brand new Maps and Earth inspired pumpkin carving sheets, just in time for the weekend before Halloween.You can grab the PDF file Google has kindly made available, print it out, stick that on a pumpkin ... |
29 October 2011
09:01 GMT |
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