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Have you ever noticed that Google Maps displays Metro Subway and Light Rail stations but not Orange Line ones, even though the buway pretty much acts like train on rubber wheels (yeah, cheesy description). We posed that question to Google and a spokesperson quickly responded saying those stations would be marked on the map if Metro joined the Google Transit program. "The icons you're seeing for LA...
Here's an odd one to puzzle over for the evening. I've just come across a get-not-quite-rich enough web game called FortuneMaps which is rather interesting use of a Google Maps overlay. Before I begin, let's not make any bones about this. This is not a mash-up of use. This is not something to benefit the public. It's a game. It's a game where you can win some cash...
Once or twice a week I get e-mails from readers who are trying to develop a Google Maps Mash-up and need help with something they are stuck on. Invariably my small brain is unable to solve their problem. I therefore usually redirect them to the Google Maps API Group , where people with much bigger brains than me are nearly always able to answer their questions. Over the course of a week I must also...
Timed to coincide with a local search session at SMX East, Greg Sterling posted a Q&A about Google Maps and local businesses on Search Engine Land today. If you’re a small business owner with questions/concerns about your local business listing in Google Maps, I’m guessing this Q&A will have some helpful, interesting information. One of the [...]
FortuneMaps FortuneMaps is a find the treasure game built on Google Maps. To play the game suckers players purchase a flag for $2 and then position the flag on the map. If a player comes within 100 metres of the treasure they win the jackpot, which increases with every flag placed. If no one wins the jackpot there is also a weekly prize for the closest player each week. According to FortuneMaps this...
Author: fegul Subject: Google Maps for Ethiopia Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 12:56 pm (GMT -5) Topic Replies: 1 This comes as big news to me because one of the reasons I've felt that the internet really hasnt exploded in Ethiopia as much as it has elsewhere is because there isnt much local content on the internet that's relevant to those in Ethiopia. I see this changing that once more is added (so please...
Author: sawu Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 2:36 pm (GMT -5) Topic Replies: 1 I think I could have too much fun with this... Check out American Embassy in Addis and my morning exercises road. http://www.google.com/mapmaker.....&z=17] not a good example I know...couldn't resists.
If you use Google Maps API in your website, you can easily add Panoramio photos with only 2 lines of code. So far, the first project that has added Panoramio photos using Google Maps API is the trail-sharing website Wikiloc.
While Apple has not yet announced when the recently seeded (to developers) iPhone 2.2 firmware beta will be released to end users, the said firmware version has some pretty interesting featured buried within it. At least three new features were found buried in the new iPhone 2.2 firmware beta, including Google Maps Street View and a [...]
Biodiversity Heat Maps The Biodivertido blog has produced an excellent heat map of biodiversity data. The heat map comes with a slider so that it is possible to adjust the transparency of the heat map overlay. It is also possible to adjust the quality of the rendering of the heat map. Even more amazing is that the Biodivertido blog provides instructons on how the heat map was produced. PlaceChannel...
I came across this link via one of those tangential internet searches that should take a minute and ends up at several hours. Starting from ‘how do I spell bi-election'’, an interesting result caught my eye and diverted me to the blog of a fellow called Stephen Rees, then browsing through several pages and their external [...]
If you want to find some amazing pictures of different parts of earth and want to be really taken by someone when he vists it, Earth Album is the right place to look into. This online application has combined the power of Google Maps and geo tagged Flickr picture and the result is a powerful [...]
Check out this cool " Streetviewer " app for Facebook created by Keir Clarke of Google Maps Mania . This view shows a cop in Kansas talking to someone from Google Street View Car (or is it')
One of the slides in my 90-minute Local Search Workshop presentation shows market share among the major mapping sites. I’ll need to update that now, thanks to new data that Heather Hopkins of Hitwise shared with me this week: The chart shows the gains Google Maps is making on MapQuest, and how both Yahoo and MSN [...]
Google Maps was just rated the leader in online mapping in a study by Cowen & Co. (as reported by Techcrunch). Despite being rated the leader in quality, Google Maps still trails MapQuest in share of US Internet visits. The following chart illustrates Google's ascent nicely but also shows that MapQuest is by far the category leader. Originally I had included Yahoo! Maps and Live Local on this chart...
