Tag: maps

Mapping While Driving Ruled Illegal in California
Thanks to a recent court ruling by a California appellate court, it doesn't matter that you were only checking your smartphone to update Google Maps. That's because the law, as it...
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Google Runs Afoul of Indian Agency over Mapping Contest
Google, who is no stranger to international dustups over its maps and street view service, has run afoul of India's federal mapping agency over a recent project to improve upon the...
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Foursquare Adds Interactive Maps to Android App
Foursquare has just released an update to their Android app that brings better maps to the explore feature and lets users redefine the parameters of their location searching by zoo...
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Facebook’s Gay Marriage Support Map Looks Exactly How You’d Expect It to Look
As you may remember, Facebook was painted red on Tuesday as marriage equality su...
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Google Street View Takes You to Abandoned Fukushima Town of Namie-machi
Google is announcing another batch of fresh Street View imagery, this time coming from Japan. More specifically, Namie-machi, a small city in Fukushima Prefecture that's in the...
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Google Takes You Atop the Tallest Mountains in the World with Insane New Street View Imagery
Google has taken its Google Maps team to some awesome places to capture some amazing street view imagery. Recent expeditions that come to mind include treks to...
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Google Splitting Up Mapping and Commerce, Former SVP Jeff Huber Joins Google X
Google is shaking things up even more today as the Wall Street Journal reports that the company is breaking up their mapping and commerce units. According to the report, Google'...
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Google Maps for iOS Gets Google Contacts Support, Local Category Search
Google Maps for iOS has just received its first major update since la...
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AOL’s MapQuest Launches Travel Blogging Feature
AOL has launched MapQuest Travel Blogs for the web and iOS (via...
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Nokia Here Maps Now Available On Windows Phone 8
Back in November, Nokia announced that it would be relaunching its maps service as Here. Despite...
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Google Commissions Studies On Economic Impact Of Geo Services
Google commissioned studies from Boston Consulting Group and Oxera about the geo services industry and its economic impact on the world. The findings have been summarized in an inf...
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Google Launches Updated Maps For North Korea
Just a couple weeks after executive chairman Eric Schmidt returned from North Korea...
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Mapping The Moon And Mars Discussed At Google
Google put up a new At Google talk with Ross Beyer from the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute and Intelligent Robotics Group at NASA Ames Research Center, who discusses makin...
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Foursquare Sees 500M Check-ins in 3 Months, Makes Cool Map to Showcase Them
Foursquare has just put up a new blog post that, among other things, touts the service's ability to create personalized recommendations, b...
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Google Dispatches Street View Cars to Sandy-Ravaged Areas, Some Residents Incensed
Is Google simply doing its job, and providing accurate Street View maps to its millions of users around the world? Or are they being incredibly insensitive? Some residents in St...
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