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Internet search leader Google Inc. is testing technology that will find the location of people using its mobile mapping service, even if the phone making the connection isn't equipped with a GPS receiver.
Hoping to make it even easier to turn its online maps into collages of local information, Google Inc. is introducing tools that will stitch together applications from a hodgepodge of Web sites.
Yahoo Inc.'s online mapping service in the United States will begin giving driving directions in 34 European countries Wednesday as part of an upgrade aimed at luring traffic away from rivals AOL and Google Inc.
If you went to Google, Yahoo, AOL or another mapping site to plot a route from San Francisco to Oakland in the hours after an oil tanker exploded, they would have sent you driving over a collapsed overpass engulfed in flames.
A congressional subcommittee accused Google on Friday of "airbrushing history" by replacing post-Hurricane Katrina satellite imagery on its popular map portal with images of the region taken before the storm's devastation.
Microsoft Corp. has upgraded its online mapping service to include three-dimensional tours of 15 U.S. cities, marking another step in its dogged pursuit of Internet search leader Google Inc.
A renowned antique map dealer who admitted stealing nearly 100 rare maps was sentenced Wednesday to 3 1/2 years in prison, after one librarian described him as a "thief who assaulted history."
Google Inc. on Monday released the latest upgrades to the mapping tools that rank among the company's biggest success outside the Internet-leading search engine that steers much of the Web's traffic.
Here's a fresh Apple rumor in the run-up to MacWorld: a TomTom GPS module for the iPhone. We just received this supposed photographic "evidence" of said device from a Dutch tipster. Our take? Might be, might not.
Police are also hoping a Google Earth tracking van could give vital clues to the death of the young woman. "Google Earth has made satellite images of the area over the past week," Det Maher said. "It's new technology and we might get something out of it."
New cities added to Google Maps street view: Boston, Dallas, Detroit, Fort Worth, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Providence and St. Paul.
Destinations in Egypt. Egypt was a cradle of civilisation that allowed the same basic language and culture to flourish for nearly 3000 years. ...
In the recent XBL update, Microsoft added many new features to Xbox360 consoles. Apparently they added something more. A feature that prevents anyone who has an account younger than 18 or as a child account cannot download videos or demos rated above the us rating M.
When the Home and Garden TV crew came calling at Stephanie Funck's town of Burke's home last year, she ushered the "That's Clever!" entourage into her 6-foot-by-14-foot studio to show them what they, and possibly most viewers, had never seen before.
With villagers at their wits' end, John Sanderson, chairman of the parish council, has proposed a seemingly simple remedy: getting the route through Wedmore removed from the GPS navigation systems used by large vehicles.
Google's Streetview was celebrated at launch, but caught some flack when they were captured the public in some embarrassing situations.
Google is set on Wednesday to launch a new feature in its Google Maps for Mobile program that automatically sets your location even in phones that lack a global positioning system (GPS) device.
A new version of Google Maps introduced this week includes a beta feature dubbed My Location that was designed to simulate the GPS experience on mobile phones and handheld devices that do not include GPS hardware, like Apple's iPhone.
In support of the International Polar Year (IPY 2007-2008), LIMA brings the coldest continent on Earth alive in greater detail than ever before through this virtually cloudless, seamless, and high resolution satellite view of Antarctica.
The parchment scroll, made in the Middle Ages, is the only surviving copy of a road map from the late Roman Empire.
It's somewhat like a showcase of a mashup about the mobile concept of 'location based' but than seen on the web. Click anywhere on the map of the world to get ads served up which (in most cases) are relevant to the location you clicked! See it for yourself!
This map shows alcohol consumption per capita in states, countries, and regions. Quite amusing...how accurate it is, I couldn't tell you!
Move a marker, and make your virtual neighborhood a better place -- that is, in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand, where it works right now. You'll need a Google Account to join the fun. And I should also tell you that's not actually my house.
cool map of earth showing the area where there is sunlight in a given time
On the Web, anyone can be a mapmaker. With the help of simple tools introduced by Internet companies recently, millions of people are trying their hand at cartography, drawing on digital maps and annotating them with text, images, sound and videos.
The Internet-connected pumps, made by Gilbarco Veeder-Root Inc., will come fitted with a color screen and allow travelers to find local landmarks, restaurants, hotels, and more.
Jermwz seeded a Wired story about beautiful USGS planetary maps, the other day. These are highly detailed geologic maps showing various geological information rendered in artifical colors, and looking like a cross between a Moebius illustration and a Joan Miro painting.
Put your best lawns on! A California company is driving around Knoxville taking pictures of your neighborhood for Google Street Views or a competitor. I saw one of these cars zoom through my cove a few weeks ago and I wasn't quick enough to strike an interesting pose.
How you look at the world is sometimes a matter of habit. The pictures here show different ways of looking at the earth.
Here is your chance to cast a vote for your favorite online driving directions service. If it is not in the list, you can add it.
This paper examines the techniques being developed by the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) Division of Publications for designing plan (2D) maps with a faux realistic look.
The 2000 Presidential election remains crisp in my sometimes-failing memory. Of course, the controversy over G.W. Bush's electoral college (and, some might say, Supreme Court-handed) victory over Al Gore is the primary reason.
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