Tag: Google Maps

Google Adds Live Transit Updates to Maps
Google announced today that Google Maps for both mobile and the desktop is getting live transit updates, so you can find out "when your ride is actually going to arrive." The co...
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Google and Apple Renew Search Deal
Former Google CEO and current Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt spoke at the All Things Digital D9 conference, and revealed...
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Google Maps Visualizes The Path of the Joplin Tornado
It's been an incredibly destructive tornado season in 2011, if you can pardon the understatement. Even after over 300 people were killed by tornado strikes in Alabama, the strike...
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Mississippi Flood Photos from Google Maps Satellite Imagery
Google has put together a whole bunch of data and imagery from the Mississippi floods on Google Maps. On Google's Lat Long Blog, Pete Giencke of the Google Crisis Response Team...
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The Royal Wedding Makes Use of YouTube
On April 29th, the world of social media will explode when the latest Royal Wedding takes place. The soon-to-be nuptials of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, which takes pla...
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Google Earth Lets Users Browse Photos in New Way
Google has launched a new photo browsing experience in Google Earth, which includes a new photo cluster feature. This is designed to make the browsing process quicker and easier....
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Google Earth Builder Launched For Businesses
Google has launched Google Earth Builder, a tool to enab...
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Google Map Maker Opens in US
Google map maker is a community cartography service that allows users from all around the world to add and update locations from the more obscure corners, as well as those places s...
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Geotracking Techniques Getting Closer and Closer
The idea behind anonymity in regards to the Internet is contentious at best -- are you truly anonymous if online activities can be tracked to IP addresses -- it might just be a thi...
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The Japan Quake Maps Are Useful, Educational
If there's some good that comes from the kind of natural disaster that hit Japan, aside from seeing people put aside their petty differences for a moment in favor of assisting thos...
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SXSW – Google Saving Drivers Time and Fuel
Google has already saved people a total of two years per day, and a whole lot of fuel, thanks to that traffic-based re-routing feature the company...
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Google Maps Highlights EV Charging Stations
The beauty of an electric car is, of course, that it doesn't need gas. Yet a major downside is that gas stations are plentiful, while charging stations are rare. So a certain sea...
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Google Aims to Help You Avoid Traffic
Google has announced that Google Maps Navigation will now automatically route you around traffic. Google is pitching the feature as rending the traffic report obsolete. "Ever be...
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Libya Protest Tweets Mapped Using Google Maps
An activist has put together a Google Maps mashup,...
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Google Waves White Flag In Real Estate Fight
The people behind sites like Realtor.com, Redfin, and Trulia can breathe a sigh of relief and perhaps throw a party.  They seem to have defeated Google, which announced thi...
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