sábado, 6 de febrero de 2021

Newsvine - google-maps

Source: The Washington Post

Tired of getting bad directions? Google Maps, Google's popular mapping and driving directions tool, is now letting users correct its maps, Wikipedia-style.

Source: news.sawf.org

Gilbarco's new media system displays color Google maps on petrol station pumps, according to the North Carolina-based company. Maps, routes and other information for travelers in need of directions are kept up-to-date with live Internet connections.

Source: learnhow2earn.com

This is a list of my 5 favorite things about Google. What are yours?

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"Google-powered phones will come already configured with a bundle of the most popular Google services, such Google search, Google Maps, YouTube and Gmail. But that would just be the beginning..."

Source: Guardian Unlimited

Palestinian militants are using Google Earth to help plan their attacks on the Israeli military and other targets, the Guardian has learned.

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UFO flight simulator based on Google Maps.

Source: googlesightseeing.com

This is the Staigue Stone Fort, a beautiful round Iron Age fort located in County Kerry, Ireland. Although exact dating is difficult, this fine example of an Irish ring fort could be up to 2,000 years old.

Source: webupon.com

These little known tips and tricks will make browsing easier and more fun. Trust me, if you use Firefox, you need to know what's in this guide.

Source: news.com

Google has just announced the latest project to bubble up out of Google Earth--International Cleanup Weekend, a coordinated global effort taking place Saturday, October 13, and Sunday, October 14, 2007, at locations throughout the world.

Source: TechCrunch

Google Transit, Google's public transport mapping feature, has graduated from Google Labs.

Source: Ars Technica

Rumors of Google's plans to create a virtual world that rivals that of Second Life have popped up once again over the weekend.

Source: Lifehacker

Check Google Maps mashup RottenNeighbors before you move to a new neighborhood to get a heads-up on the potentially noisy folks next door.

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25 best maps, feeds, charts, photos... for tracking the latest tropical storm... or hurricane.

Source: PC World

Yahoo, for example, has a suite of mobile services and applications called Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0, while Google offers mobile versions of several services, including Gmail, Maps, YouTube, Picasa, Blogger and search.

Source: dreadnaught.wordpress.com

Details of new Russian top-secret submarine revealed on city website.

Source: Canada.com

Canada's Privacy Commissioner has raised concerns over a new Google program that lets users view and zoom in on street-level photographs that are so clear and precise, they can pinpoint an unknowing bystander and their exact location with the click of a mouse button.

Source: Internet Marketing Blog

TypePad's embeddable maps bug prevents users from re-editing their blog post after they've saved a post that includes an embedded Google Map.

Source: dreadnaught.wordpress.com

The propeller of a United States Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine is available on Microsoft's Live Search. Some military experts say that this image is very sensitive naval technology, but the Department of Defense has not asked to have the image removed.

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The Largest Video Mashap on Google Maps. Search Exact Location on Google Maps and find moore Videos from youtube of this place. Excellent are the kml and mapplet showed in info section.

Source: dreadnaught.wordpress.com

Image of propeller on ballistic-missile submarine is available on Microsoft Live Search.

Source: Mashable!

Mercedes-Benz has teamed up with Yahoo and Google to offer some new features for its S, CL, and C class models, called Search & Send. The features is set to launch next month, on September 5th.

Source: boygeniusreport.com

This is pretty big, dear readers. If rumors shall hold true, then HTC is currently hard at work on a handset device. This wouldn't sound at all interesting except for one small fact: it's being custom built for none other than Google.

Source: blogs.business2.com

Google (GOOG) has enabled a feature that allows Google Maps users to easily embed maps in their websites or blogs, a feature that is likely to increase usage of the service.

Source: tech.yahoo.com

It was only going to be a matter of time before something like this happened.

Source: Mashable!

The L.A. Times has added a Google Maps mashup to its Homicide Report, with several geo-tagging and search filter attributes.