Tag: googlemaps

Kakao street view

Blurry Maps

Adam Smith has applied some magic to Google Maps that manages to blur the pixels in the map tiles to create Blurry Maps. When you zoom in on a location you can watch the normal Google Maps tiles turn into a pointillist version of the mapped location.

Biking Feature Request

45k people and counting.

Google Transit Holdouts

3 years after the launch of Google Transit, which gives directions using transit on Google Maps, and after constant requests by riders and bloggers, WMATA announced their decision that participating in Google Transit is “not in our best interest from a business perspective.” That’s a very shortsighted decision.

why are they so confused? running a web site is not their line of business.

VE to Google Maps

In IE6, we saw a speedup of ~10 seconds

US Street View complete

we now essentially cover the whole us.

Today marks our biggest launch of Street View imagery to date: we’re doubling our coverage in the United States. Several states — Maine, West Virginia, North Dakota, and South Dakota — will be getting the Street View treatment for the first time. We’ve also added imagery for Memphis, Charleston (SC), and Birmingham, and we’ve filled in lots of gaps across the country.

Laptop Cop geolocate

stolen laptops phoning home using gears, presumably

Map Tile Caching

or specifically, the keyhole tile servers, as seen by a squid developer.

Map update strategy

A device like the Tom-Tom navigation devices can gather incredibly accurate GPS paths that when combined with the user feedback of Tom-Tom and Google Maps users and matched against satellite imagery can allow TeleAtlas to make more maps changes in less time, less expensively than sending out cars and drivers. This capability will grow, going forward, with the introduction of navigation devices that offer a 2 way connection back to TeleAtlas and TomTom. The volume of data, the nature of the data and the timeliness of the data could mean that Map errors in Google could be updated in a 1 to 4 month time frame going forward, rather than the traditional 6-9 months they have taken in the past.

The recent TeleAtlas update includes 50k map edits from community data to the Maps.

Google Maps NYC Ad

Google has stepped up as the next concern to wrap a train, wrapping 3 exterior cars with an advertisement for Google Maps, slightly less understated then the History Channel’s ad, if such a thing could be, as Google has only wrapped the exterior of the train, leaving the interior with the more traditional ads we are used to seeing in the square displays or banners up top.

looks nice