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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Google announced a new Google Maps feature today, related to the company's recently launched Hotpot social recommendation product. Now, users can search Google Maps, and request...
Between them, overhead satellite images and Street View photos tend to provide Google Maps users with a pretty complete picture of an area. But - following in Bing's foots...