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Bing releases iPhone app with nice Maps implementation

December 16, 2009

Microsoft just released the “Bing” application for iPhone and it is a solid effort. It was voice search that is similar to the Google app, and Maps implementation that is similar to Google Maps on the phone.
It’s a free app, so it’s certainly worth downloading and trying out. Chris Pendleton has a nice writeup of [...]

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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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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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Japanese StreetView is facing a variety of complaints

September 7, 2009

The Japanese version of Google StreetView is facing an increasingly higher number of complaints, about a variety of topics. Along with the usual complaints (faces, license plates), there is the issue of people using the images on secondary sites for the purposes of discrimination and bullying.
To help combat this, Google has set up a new [...]

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A ghost town from space

August 24, 2009

Earth is Square has a neat post today about viewing Centralia, Pennsylanvia using fresh Bird’s Eye imagery on Bing Maps. Centralia was an active town of about 1000 residents back in the early 1980’s, but now is home to only nine people. The reason is due to an underground coal fire that’s been burning since [...]

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Google launches new StreetView site

August 4, 2009

To help people better understand how StreetView works, Google has launched a new site that has a lot of information about the service. The site explains how they collect the imagery, how long it takes to process it, the areas of the world that are covered, etc.
It’s probably not overly exciting for most readers of [...]

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StreetView now in full-screen

April 9, 2009

This certainly makes StreetView even better — full screen mode! When viewing anything in StreetView, simply click the small grey icon in the upper-right corner (next to the “x”) and it will go full screen.
There’s really not much else to say but go look at it yourself. Go check out the Golden Gate Bridge, the [...]

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StreetView now in the UK and the Netherlands

March 18, 2009

Google has just released a major update to StreetView, covering large areas in the UK and the Netherlands.

Google Maps Mania has already found a bunch of great locations. Check them out, and then add your other finds to the GEH StreetView database.

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Lots of new goodies from Google

March 16, 2009

Sorry for being so quiet lately. I’ve got a few big projects going on and I’ve been away from the Google Earth scene for a few days. However, things have been very active and there’s quite a lot to see!
More Historical Imagery — Google has added more historical imagery to Google Earth. This is an [...]

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A new StreetView-like service for Central Europe

January 24, 2009

As reported by Google Maps Mania, Norc has just launched a StreetView-like service for a handful of countries in Europe. They use the Google Maps API to power their product, then drop in a bunch of interactive panoramic images. You can’t move up up down streets quite as easily, but they provide small arrows in [...]

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