Feb 27
Google has launched Google Maps Gallery, a digital interactive atlas to showcase some of the ways charities, historic sites, galleries, businesses, and others have been creating custom mapping. The showcase … Continue reading
Feb 27
This article was written on July 03, 2008 by CyberNet.
If you own a BlackBerry 8110, 8120, or 8130, you can now use your device in a whole new way. Google has recently launched Google Maps with voice search that will work with the aforementioned devices. It’s an experimental thing, so if all goes well, they’ll probably expand the service and make it available for additional phones.
Now BlackBerry owners will be able to use their voice to search for locations or businesses on Google Maps. This means that people will no longer have to type out the business that they are looking for, and instead they can just speak what they are looking for and Google will perform the search.
Google put together a tutorial including images, but we’ll quickly just list out the steps here:
- Hold the left-side key on your BlackBerry
- Say the business type that you’re looking for (Gas Station, Pizza, etc.)
- Release the left-side key when you’re done saying the business type
- Google will start searching the map for matches in your area
Of course the alternative to this if you don’t have one of the supported phones is to call GOOG-411 which we’ve used on several occasions and it’s actually pretty nice. If you own either the BlackBerry 8110, 8120, or 8130, give it a try and let us know what you think.
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Feb 26
Trust the listings you find on Google Maps? You shouldn’t, because it’s dumb easy to fake them. That’s what Google Maps exploiter Bryan Seely demonstrated for me this morning. And while trolling politicians with dick jokes is never not funny, there’s also a whole sub-community of scammers turning Google Map’s little bugs into cold, hard cash.
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Feb 26
This article was written on November 07, 2007 by CyberNet.
Google has been able to offer basic directions to users of their map service for quite some time, just like what most other map services out there offer. All you do is enter in your starting and ending destinations and then Google calculates the fastest route. It’s always been a pretty quick process, but Google wanted to make it even faster and better than some of their competitors. A posting yesterday on the Google Blog outlines what they did to create a new route-finding system which is “hundreds of times faster: it can find and describe a cross-continental shortest path in well under a second. Shorter paths can be found proportionately faster.” Even when you have a really long route, it’s still super fast.
Besides the improvements in speed, they’ve also added a few additional features over the last few months with one of them being an ‘avoid highways’ option. Now when you get directions, there will be a box that you can check so that it will avoid highways when calculating and determining your route as shown below:
Given how much processing power it takes to provide these maps and directions so quickly, I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if Google had as many servers dedicated to Google Maps as they do for Search.
Source: Thanks for the tip Cory!
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Feb 25
Is This the Geekiest Mural Ever?
Posted in: Today's ChiliThe Google Maps pin is iconic: bold and simple, yet incredibly memorable. And emblazoned on the side of a Danish building in twinkling metallic form, it might just be the geekiest mural ever.
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Feb 19
At Google I/O 2013, the company showed off a completely new Maps experience which it said was built from the ground up to bring together Street View and satellite imagery into a much more interactive setting. Since then only those who requested an invitation to the preview were able to get the new Google Maps, and during all this time the company has worked on adding more features and improving upon almost everything it showed us back at I/O 2013. Today is the day that the new Google Maps finally comes out of preview. Starting today, this will be rolled out as the default Google Maps desktop experience for all users around the globe.
New Google Maps Finally Exits Preview original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Feb 19
Google is bringing its latest version of Google Maps out of beta and pushing it to the public, with better integration of search results, smarter route navigation, and easier access … Continue reading
Feb 19
The new version of Google Maps for desktop that was introduced at last year’s I/O is finally coming
Posted in: Today's ChiliThe new version of Google Maps for desktop that was introduced at last year’s I/O
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Feb 12
To access one of Google Maps’ best hidden features, you have to know the magic word. Well, it’s a phrase, really, and that phrase is: “OK Maps.”
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Feb 10
It would seem that the elusive Nokia Android smartphone has been tipped as close to release this week, with a full collection of Microsoft and Nokia-created apps inside instead of … Continue reading
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