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| Euro 2008 Brought to You by Google |  | Football fans around the world, get ready for what is the most expected football tournament of the year: Euro 2008, the competition that gathers the most important countries when it comes to this sport. Although it is based in Mountain View, California, and they simply call it "soccer" there, Google is trying to make the most of this event and has consequently prepared several goodies for all Euro 2008 fans out there.
... [read more >>] | | 02 June 2008, 15:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Earth for Browsers |  | Since its release in 2005, Google Maps has become something that Internet users can really benefit from – an online mapping solution that allows them to get more information than just the usual directions to the nearest Mall. Prior to the Google Maps release, online maps only offered basic information. Google thought to go a step further and created its Google Maps and Google Maps API, which allow users to fully benefit from all the applic ... [read more >>] | | 29 May 2008, 05:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google News - Now on Google Earth |  | Google takes no shortcuts when it comes to offering its users the stamp of high quality for its products. Over the past few weeks, we've seen a number of updates released for the Google Earth application. Google's mapping solution can provide users with satellite imagery of various locations and landmarks found on Earth. All of the recent updates are meant to increase the quality of Google's products and even provi ... [read more >>] | | 20 May 2008, 09:19GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Watch Out Google! Nokia Is Just around the Corner. |  | Nokia, the largest mobile manufacturer, has recently announced an alpha version of their Maps on Ovi. The announcement, or better yet, the showing, was made yesterday at the Where 2.0 conference. The alpha version of Maps is said to allow Nokia phone users to share photos, videos, music and much more, directly from their mobile phones.
It appears that the new Nokia Maps are something to be expected, being an experience that is ... [read more >>] | | 14 May 2008, 09:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Maps Turns to Real Estate |  | Google Maps and Google Earth are two of the Mountain View company products that can provide users with a number of useful tools, meant to solve their everyday problems. Since its release in early 2005, Google Maps has received some important new features and upgrades. At this point in time, Google Maps can be used to locate almost anything of significant importance. And because the guys at Google never rest when it comes to impro ... [read more >>] | | 14 May 2008, 05:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Learning History with Google Earth |  | After last week’s update with satellite imagery from the affected areas in Myanmar (Burma), Google Earth has just received a new update. This time, it is something that deals more with the past, but is of equal significance. The new layer has increased the number of available maps in Rumsey Historical Maps to a total of 120.
For those among you that are continuously interested in history and historical events, the new layer i ... [read more >>] | | 13 May 2008, 04:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Yahoo Maps Debuts Imagery Update |  | When talking about web-based mapping technologies, users usually think of Google Maps because Google's solution is said to be one of the most powerful tools in this category. However, there are some other similar technologies on the market and, even if their performance is quite remarkable, they were all defeated by Google's popularity. Yahoo Maps is just one of them and, although it is owned by Yahoo, the Sunnyvale-bas ... [read more >>] | | 05 May 2008, 09:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Is This the Real Google Street View Car? |  | Since Google's Street View technology was published on the web, there were lots of speculations concerning the cars used to shoot pictures around the world. As you probably know, the Mountain View-based company has used multiple cars equipped with all kinds of high-end equipments in order to take high-resolution photos around the globe. The cars were driven in a certain city all day long while the cameras mounted on the roof ... [read more >>] | | 17 April 2008, 03:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| YouTube Clips in Google Maps |  | The Mountain View-based company Google has just made what seems to be an important update addressed to business owners as they are now able to publish YouTube videos and photos next to their listings. As you know, Google Maps lets you find a certain business, as well as lots of details and reviews concerning the entry. What's more useful is that the reviews are written by users so, in case you're wondering if the pizza ... [read more >>] | | 15 April 2008, 02:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google under Strong Criticism over Street View Update |  | The Mountain View-based company plans the expansion of Google Maps Street View, the web service which shows street-level panoramas only using your browser. According to several reports, multiple Google cars supposed to be used for capturing Street View photos, were spotted in Australia, a matter which attracted, once again, the privacy infringement dispute into the spotlights.
As you probably know, Google has always been criti ... [read more >>] | | 14 April 2008, 02:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Kane and Lynch Get a Dope Bag |  | Kane and Lynch aren't the nicest personalities in videogame history. To be frank, they are some of the worst guys you'll get to meet when playing videogames. But that's OK as they provide some relief from the always-predictable Hollywood-like leading men that ... [read more >>] | | 09 April 2008, 18:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Transit - Public Transportation Online |  | Google Transit is what seems to be the easiest and fastest solution to plan a trip using public transportation in your home town because it allows you to do that from a simple yet powerful interface. The bad thing is that it only provides coverage for a limited number of cities/states around the world, the United States residents being among the lucky guys who received the largest part of information. Beside the United States, Go ... [read more >>] | | 09 April 2008, 03:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Earth to Get Street View? |  | A new rumor brings Google Earth and the long commented Google Maps function, Street View, in the spotlights: the Mountain View company plans to integrate Street View into the downloadable map application which means users will be able to enjoy street-level panoramas straight from their desktop. The speculation was rolled out by Rafe Needleman of Webware, who wrote that "Google Earth app will get the Street View feature, curr ... [read more >>] | | 07 April 2008, 08:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Boring Couple Sues Google for Illegal Street View Pictures |  | Aaron and Christine Boring, a Pennsylvanian couple, have sued the Mountain View-based company Google, claiming that the search firm published photos of their private property without authorization. The couple accuses Google that its Street View technology, a special Google Maps function which provides street level panoramas, violated their privacy after it published photos with their house and the front driveway, Associated Press ... [read more >>] | | 07 April 2008, 02:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New Imagery Update for Google Earth! Download Available! |  | Google Earth, the downloadable mapping application provided by the Mountain View company, is now providing even more high-resolution photos as the parent firm updated several locations around the world. Although the news came on April Fool's Day, the reports are not fakes as the new high-quality imagery is now accessible to all the users who downloaded and installed Google Earth.
A blog post published on the Lat Long Blog ... [read more >>] | | 02 April 2008, 02:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| MapJack – A Better & Non-Google Street Imagery Provider |  | Google Maps Street View is a famous service which provides high-resolution photos straight from the street, allowing users to enjoy amazing panoramas from several locations in the world. Although there are only a few similar services on the market, there's one which may represent a real alternative for Google's service. Codenamed MapJack, the street imagery service only provides photos of San Francisco, Sausalito (Unite ... [read more >>] | | 31 March 2008, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Unreal Tournament 3 DLC Now Available |  | All the first person shooter fans should be really happy right now since Midway and Epic have just announced that downloadable content for the amazing Unreal Tournament 3 is now available for PlayStation 3s and PCs. The DLC consists of three new deadly arenas: Morbias, Facing Worlds and Searchlight. The PS3 owners can download the new maps directly from the ... [read more >>] | | 28 March 2008, 04:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| More Street Views Brought to You by Google |  | Street View, the Google Maps function that provides high-quality panoramas for free, is once again updated by the Mountain View company as it plans to expand the coverage of the service. In an announcement made today, Bradley Bossard, Software Engineer, mentioned that high-resolution imagery with no less than 13 new metropolitan areas and a national park is now available on Street View. This means that 6 of the cities already exi ... [read more >>] | | 28 March 2008, 03:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| F1 2008 on Google Maps |  | For all the Formula 1 hotheads out there, the upcoming first race of Melbourne, Australia, is the mark of a beautiful time of the year. Here’s to the 2008 season getting underway and to those brilliant "madmen" that have decided to re-create it on Google Maps. For, what is folly without the means to make it heard to all akin?
If you recall, and you do, there’s no doubt about it in my mind, last year saw young Lewis ... [read more >>] | | 10 March 2008, 06:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Yahoo! Maps Get Local Update |  | The life-long battle between Yahoo! and Google is being fought at every level possible, starting with the search engine, advertising platform, email services, and going to the maps they both offer to their users. At the moment, as with most of the other options and services, Google is the Maps leader, but unlike in other domains where it chooses to present old features as new, the Sunnyvale-based company is actually doing a good ... [read more >>] | | 07 March 2008, 15:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Miles? Better Make It Kilometers! Or Wait... |  | The Official Google Lat Long Blog has brought to the Google Maps users’ attention the possibility to switch from one measurement unit to the other. Miles or kilometers, whatever you’re accustomed to calculating the distance in, it’s available at the click of the mouse.
Although not such a significant update like all the others being rolled out on a regular basis by the Google Maps development team, the option to convert one un ... [read more >>] | | 21 February 2008, 10:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Having Car Problems |  | If you’re having car problems, I feel bad for you, son/ I got 99 problems but my car ain’t one, to paraphrase one of Jay-Z’s hits. Google is having car problems right now. Big ones, at that, as well. It looks like the Europe conquest that the Street View is gearing up for is a little more delicate than those of Australia and America.
The Google.org idea and the motto of the Mountain View based company (Ye shall do no Evil or s ... [read more >>] | | 20 February 2008, 14:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Seize the Best Graffiti Spots via Google Maps |  | That’s the name of the website that shows you the best places you could "spray" your contribution to urban art. Based on an offline art project exhibited in Berlin, in 2007, the switching to the Internet can’t do the movement anything but good, as long as it unites every artist’s vision in a global work of art.
Discarded by many, including invariably the local authorities, Graffiti is, according to Wikipedia, the nam ... [read more >>] | | 08 February 2008, 09:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Do You Like Old Maps? |  | Google Maps has been added a very interesting layer, powered by GeoGarage, representing an 18th century map of France, created by Cassini. It took the cartographer over thirty years to complete his work, the drawing of the 182 sheets of the map.
The layer is fully functional and you can zoom in and out as you please, as you would with a regular Google Map. The interesting part is that it has been added as an overlay on top of ... [read more >>] | | 01 February 2008, 17:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Customized Map Search Available |  | The Lat Long Blog is the place to go when you want to know whether there’s something new in store related to Google Maps. Yesterday, Lior Ron posted an entry relating to the new options added to search. Much to my surprise, they are actually really useful to the average user and not necessarily to the maps aficionado, like I had expected them to be.
I say that because the latest important update was about the editing tools, as ... [read more >>] | | 01 February 2008, 05:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Be a Google Watchman! |  | I like work, it fascinates me. I could look at people working all day, somebody famous whose name I don’t quite remember said a while ago. As do I, I could just sit back and look at others doing their jobs and, despite not being in the know, I bet I’d be able and willing to give some advice in the field they’re experts in.
The recent addition to Google Maps, as announced in a post on the Google Lat Long Blog by Charles Spiraki ... [read more >>] | | 25 January 2008, 18:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Map to Warn People of the Most Dangerous Roads on Earth |  | Whether you’re an accident fanatic that wants to know each and every morbid detail, or you’re just concerned about the road you’ll be taking your kids to school on, it doesn’t matter. This map tells you about the most dangerous roads on the planet and gives additional information about them to those curious.
The mashup ... [read more >>] | | 21 January 2008, 17:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| English Map for Tokyo Transit |  | Out of the many, many maps that I’ve seen this far this is one of the best and most useful. Not to me as I am not a resident of Tokyo, but I’m certain that for the tourists it’s going to be a gold mine.
Why did I mention the tourists? Because this map also has a special tab where the top places to visit while you’re in that particular area are shown and taking into consideration that it’s the capital of Japan we’re talking ab ... [read more >>] | | 15 January 2008, 06:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Some More Maps for Politics |  | Don't get me wrong, there’s a world of meaning in taking interest in what is to happen to your future as a country and this deserves all the media hype surrounding it. However there’s a big difference between knowing what there is to know and creating a map on top of another, polling and graphing every little detail that might show up in the course of the elections. Sadly enough, somebody’s got to do it for the rest to be ha ... [read more >>] | | 15 January 2008, 03:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Sports Results Everywhere via Google Maps |  | I know some people willing to give an arm and a leg for their favorite team, people who will have a nervous breakdown, if the respective team loses, and go have a "talk" with those who might have said something bad about the team. Needless to say how important an accurate coverage of the games and scores is for them.
The Live Sports Map, crea ... [read more >>] | | 09 January 2008, 05:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| US Presidential Nominations from Google Maps Return |  | New Hampshire is now the theater of operations for presidential caucuses, so that’s where all the nation’s attention is being pointed at. Yet again, to help with the information acquisition and distribution, there comes Google Maps with a map similar to the one that had Iowa listed last week.
As of today, users interested in the way things are going with the elections in the second state to caucus can redirect their browsers to maps.goo ... [read more >>] | | 09 January 2008, 03:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Street View(s) Accidents |  | Although there’s some subtle irony in looking at a gorgeous car smashed into a tree and it kind of makes you sit back and wonder what the point of owning a nice car is, if you know that about one of three people in traffic will be injured or killed in a car accident (and at this point, you start counting the members of your family who haven’t had any car crashes yet), such a nasty event is nothing to be trifled with.
Some migh ... [read more >>] | | 07 January 2008, 12:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Maps Bringing Books to the Table |  | This is a mashup that I think will be very useful for the people still in the learning process and who are the type to go knee-deep into a story, fully submerge in its plot and know the characters as if they were long lost friends that are starting to discover themselves once again.
In case you were wondering whether the book you are reading has any geographic context, be sure to check this mashup out. The way it works is that ... [read more >>] | | 07 January 2008, 03:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Caucus Results, Get Your Caucus Results Here! |  | The time for caucus is here and now. Iowa has been known to be the "pivotal event for each White House hopeful" (Brittany Bohnet, Elections Program Manager, on the Google Lat Long Blog), so there’s a reason there’s so much media hype surrounding it. An Iowa Caucus YouTube Channel, the recently launched Elections section of Google News, and so on, all prove that point.
If you’re into politics at the level of burning the [ADMARK ... [read more >>] | | 04 January 2008, 05:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Way Google Helps You Get a Job |  | Getting a job proves difficult to many people who, one way or another, find themselves unemployed. But the tough part is not "getting" a job, which is a fifty percent deal, you either have what it takes or you don’t; what’s tough is finding a job that suits you best. Here’s the story of a schoolteacher that used Google in order to do just that.
Vanessa Bernstein is a substitute teacher from Orlando, Florida, that bef ... [read more >>] | | 04 January 2008, 04:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Sunny Google Maps Hotels |  | I don’t know what your idea of a winter holiday is, whether or not you have that classical Aspen idea of going skiing and sliding down the slopes and so on and so forth, but I personally think that’s a lot of nothing to be done on two narrow pieces of wood or on one that’s a little over twice as wide (the snowboard). It’s just plain sitting in an angle so that you don’t hit your head against the branches of the trees around. Oh, ... [read more >>] | | 04 January 2008, 03:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Earth and Maps Combined… |  | One of the most fulfilling moments in a person’s life is when he is able to look back and say "I did that" with the pride of the inventor or of the person who came through it all, despite the many difficulties he/she had to endure. The holidays’ time is the best to do that because that’s when you get to have the peace and quiet that otherwise would be so difficult to obtain in the middle of running errands for others, or while yo ... [read more >>] | | 27 December 2007, 13:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Which Is the Better, More Popular Service, Gmail or Google Maps? |  | comScore.com released its numbers about which Google service has noted the highest growth and despite the fact that, by far, the most used are Gmail and Google Maps, each going head to head every month in the interval measured, Nov 2006 – Nov 2007, the best performer was… iGoogle?
The personalized start page had a 267.64 percent growth compared to last year and that was astoundingly five times as great as the next service rank ... [read more >>] | | 27 December 2007, 06:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Maps the Holiday Lights |  | It’s like a mass hysteria running amok in all the malls and stores in the land. It’s like a wave of change and bankruptcy hitting all players at the Monopoly table at once. It’s the Holiday spirit and all it implies, shopping for presents for others, or just indulging yourself to whatever it is you wished for all year. It’s the time to think of your loved ones and show them you care, it’s a time for reminiscing about olden days, ... [read more >>] | | 21 December 2007, 05:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Crime Map |  | It’s not a sort of Bat-signal that the Police see blinking on their patrol car GPS, so that they know where they are needed, it’s more of a Public Relations tool that will make the people living in certain neighborhoods know all about what has happened there, regarding safety and the way the police dealt with the problems.
It’s often difficult to find crime information, because police blotters in local newspapers aren’t all that popular ... [read more >>] | | 20 December 2007, 16:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nokia Gives, Nokia Takes |  | Not too long ago, Nokia made available to the public a few updates, meaning a firware update for its N95 model. After upgrading your firmware you realized that the Nokia Maps satellite navigation software is not what it used to be. More precisely, the tracking feature, which used to b ... [read more >>] | | 20 December 2007, 07:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Here’s a New Idea from Yahoo!: Drag and Drop Routing! |  | The Yahoo! Local & Maps Blog has just announced that they have added the drag and drop option in order to set your routes to exactly match your purpose; if it’s a business trip, it will be the shortest line between point A and point B, if it’s an educational one, you'll get to have all the museums or other such sites shown on your map and you’ll be sure your kids miss none.
"Following your favorite freeway on Ya ... [read more >>] | | 19 December 2007, 05:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Maps Brings the Exact Route from Santa Claus to Christmas |  | "Just wanted to say hi & merry xmas & happy new year. Made a google maps christmas card, which I hope you & your crew will like. Keep up the good work! cheers, Emil Goh - Seoul" is the line that previewed this original Google Map that you can see on the left. It was sent to the Google Maps Mania crew and it shows exactly the path Santa should walk in case he’d want to get to Christmas a little earlier.
E ... [read more >>] | | 19 December 2007, 05:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Now Integrates Video, Book and Photo Results on its Maps |  | You’d say Google just came up with a new means to express itself, it’s placing video content everywhere. Two days ago, it toyed around with placing video content on the left hand side of the search results page, now it’s giving it a try with integrating it in its Google Maps service.
That wouldn’t be such a bad thing, if the content was always relevant or the integration didn’t look half-baked, or the thumbnail preview had bee ... [read more >>] | | 14 December 2007, 02:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Maps Going Places |  | The simple interface that Google Maps has gotten its users so familiar with is ready to hit New Zealand big time. I mean it hit it like a Tsunami, we’re waiting right now for the results of it. I wouldn’t be surprised to see later on the news that, because of using Google’s application, today was the day with the highest number of firings in the Kiwi history.
Ok, there has been some extent of New Zealand mapping content for ... [read more >>] | | 13 December 2007, 05:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Maps Beer |  | Ok, so, people are constantly saying that Google is turning into Orwell’s Big Brother, that it follows them around and even in the privacy of their home they cannot be free to surf the web for anything, because the Mountain View based company is spying via the cookie it sends whenever you are using the search engine to create the biggest database on the planet. That might be or might not be, only time will tell if Google uses the ... [read more >>] | | 12 December 2007, 14:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Room for Praise or Disdain from Google Maps |  | Many of you have used the "My Maps" tab that was launched in April this year, don’t even try to deny it, because nobody is going to believe you. If not for planning ahead your route to work, at least just for checking it out when it was the newest and coolest thing on the Internet, but you did use it. And because you’re human, you clicked on the user created maps and judged them. There’s no reason to be shy to confess.
... [read more >>] | | 12 December 2007, 03:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Street View Welcomes More Big Cities… |  | I might just be reinventing the wheel with this, but I think I know the basis of cities being added By Google Maps to its Street View option. *Drums, people waiting for it with widened eyes, fans fainting and being carried out on gurneys and stretchers* The answer is… they are all in the top 150 US cities by population. Don’t tell anyone, I think they do it for the popularity.
With the recent addition of these last eight citi ... [read more >>] | | 11 December 2007, 07:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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