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Switzerland takes Google to court over StreetView

November 15, 2009

We told you a few months ago that Switzerland wasn’t pleased with the new StreetView imagery in their country. Now they’re going to sue Google in an attempt to get the imagery removed. Google intends to fight the case.
The first step will be interesting — Google may be required to remove the imagery from Switzerland [...]

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New imagery release for Bing Maps

November 11, 2009

Microsoft has just dropped a nice imagery update on Bing Maps, covering around 180,000 sq. km. This update is focused heavily in Europe, in the following countries:

Bulgaria (1,225 sq. km)
Czech Republic (10,808 sq. km)
Estonia (1,418 sq. km)
Hungary (23,840 sq. km)
Latvia (12,763 sq. km)
Lithuania (9,681 sq. km)
Poland (24,912 sq. km)
Romania (24,435 sq. km)
Russian Federation (15,636 sq. [...]

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New StreetView imagery released and some new features for Bing Maps

November 10, 2009

Google has just released a ton of new StreetView imagery; Mexico, the Netherlands, Hawaii and various other places. [details: Google Earth Blog]
Bing Maps has added a few nice features. They now have draggable routes and some new navigation features. Nothing groundbreaking, but certainly solid updates. [details: Bing search blog]

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Big imagery releases for Google Earth and Bing Maps

November 5, 2009

We’ve seen a couple of big imagery releases in the past few days:
Google Earth has updated various imagery all over the world. You can read details on the Google Earth Blog, or view this page to see the updated areas via the Google Earth Plug-in. Here are some neat things that users have already found [...]

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Google Maps Navigation coming to Android 2.0

October 28, 2009

I’ve been saying for a while that I think Android will overtake iPhone in 2010, and recent news seems to be pointing that direction. First you have the impressive-looking Verizon Droid, which comes out in early November. By all accounts it will be an awesome device. It will be the first phone running the Android [...]

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A ton more 3D buildings in Google Earth

October 24, 2009

As reported by the Google Earth Blog, a ton of new 3D buildings have been released into Google Earth. They include, among other things, thousands of building generated by people using their new “Building Maker” tool.
If you find any other major cities that have been updated as well, please let us know.

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A whole bunch of minor updates to Google Maps

October 23, 2009

Google has just rolled out a slew of minor updates to Google Maps — changing road colors, outline colors, number of roads shown at each zoom level, etc.
TechCrunch summarized it best:
…unless you spend hours looking at Google Maps everyday, you probably aren’t going to realize when a road outline has been toned down, for example. [...]

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3D Map of Bournemouth with shockingly high detail

October 12, 2009

Ordnance Survey has completed a three year project, compiling data from 700 million laser beams and creating a highly-detailed map of the town. The laser data was combined with 2D maps and with photos taken from the air. The final result can be seen in the video below:

With this map, Bournemouth claims to be “the [...]

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A bunch of additions to StreetView

October 7, 2009

According to the Google Earth Blog and Google Maps Mania, a whole bunch of cities have been added to StreetView. They include Calgary, Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Prague, Quebec, Toronto and Vancouver.
Check out some of the great locations that Keir has found in Canada and in Prague, and be sure to submit your new finds to [...]

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Place Pages for Google Maps could be great for small businesses

September 24, 2009

Google has just released Place Pages for Google Maps, and the potential impact on small businesses is quite large.
According to Google, a “Place Page” is:
a webpage for every place in the world, organizing all the relevant information about it. By every place, we really mean *every* place — there are Place Pages for businesses, points [...]

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