Tag: googlemaps
No Base Street View
A message sent to all Defense Department bases and installations around the country late last week told officials to not allow the popular mapping Web site from taking panoramic views inside the facilities.
the ‘national security’ windbags out in force
IE 8 Service Gallery
they forgot to add the mapping market leader. curious
Multilingual maps labels
in addition to seeing the local label for a location, you’ll also see an English version of the local pronunciation for Greece, Thailand, Russia, and many cities in Japan.
Refine by ratings
woohoo. my team just launched this
This change will have a greater impact in the mobile world. I could envision standing on a street corner in NYC and selecting for a grade of restaurant within walking distance. Unfortunately, Google’s reviews don’t account for cost or food preference variables and would still have limited value in this context. Does anyone know if this feature is now available on the iPhone?
Yahoo Losing Local
Yahoo! has always been one of the leaders in local and a kind of standard setter. Relatively speaking, Google is a bit of a “Johnny come lately” in the segment — albeit with a lot of resources and attention. However Google’s devotion to its maps product has paid off and caused it to overtake Yahoo, in the quest to beat market leader MapQuest
this is news?
Google Static Maps API
now you can replace all those fugly mapquest tiles on your site
Socal Wildfires
On Tuesday, we saw a huge increase in traffic on Google Maps. The traffic spike was so large that our servers thought they were being DoS attacked. It turned out that the additional traffic was due to 100Ks of people constantly refreshing maps about the terrible wildfires in Southern California. Several news outlets and individuals had used the My Maps feature to create maps that tracked the spread of the fire and included information on evacuation alerts and evacuation center locations. (For those of you who haven’t been reading US news, these wildfires scorched 2K km2 of land and caused 1M people to be evacuated from their homes)
the wildfires, behind the scenes
Random MyMaps
the random my maps thing is kinda fun
Apple Pins
Apple’s pins are sleek and absolutely precise. Google’s pins are precise-ish, bulky arrowheads which often obscure much of the surrounding map
+1
Gregor J. Rothfuss 