Reading Time: < 1 minGoogle Maps has just added a very nice new feature – terrain view. This isn’t satellite images, but rather it is map-ish terrain views. It’s very pleasing to the eye. To make room for this new feature, the “hybrid” button has been removed and you now are given a “Show labels” checkbox when viewing in […]
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Fix address locations in Google Maps
Reading Time: < 1 minGoogle has just added a feature that allows you to move the marker for your address to better show exactly where you home (or business) is located. To do it, just search for your address in Google Maps, click “edit” and then “move marker” and drag the marker to the proper location This only works […]
More about StreetView privacy
Reading Time: < 1 minGoogle has just put up a post on their LatLong blog with some of their thoughts about privacy expectations in StreetView. It’s kind of a rambling post (paragraph break, anyone?) and there’s nothing too exciting in there, but here are some snippets: “…we designed a simple process for anyone to contact us and have their […]
Neat way to waste some time with Google Maps
Reading Time: < 1 minHere is an interesting take on the idea behind sites like Google Earthing. This one is called PlaceSpotting. It shows you a zoomed in map via Google Maps and you have to figure out where it is. A few cool things they’ve done, though: You solve it by adjusting a world map (zooming, panning, etc) […]
Easily embed Google Maps on your site
Reading Time: < 1 minYou can now embed a Google Map on your site in a similar manner as a YouTube video, rather than having to deal with the API. For novice webmasters, this will likely become a very popular thing to have. Full details and screenshots can be found on Google Maps Mania.
Google Maps StreetView … in 1907?
Reading Time: < 1 minThis is a neat little find by Gadling. In 1907, Rand McNally produced some “Photo Auto-maps” that they gave to drivers, which included photos with arrows to show which way to go. The rest of their article has a few more pictures from it. Very cool.
Tools for those affected by the I-35W bridge collapse
Reading Time: < 1 minThe Google LatLong Blog has posted a few links with resources to help people with the aftermath of the bridge collapse. Here are a bunch of maps with photos, news articles, meeting point locations, contact information for nearby hospitals and prayer service schedules. Here is information about road closures and detours. They also suggest searching […]
Google Maps now gives estimated rush hour drive times
Reading Time: < 1 minThis is pretty slick — Google Maps will now give you multiple estimated times for trips that you plan (in “a limited set of metropolitan areas”). Their example has someone traveling from Berkeley to Half Moon Bay, which is “about 59 minutes”. However, the directions also say that it could take “up to 1 hour […]
Google Maps – Click and Drag Directions
Reading Time: < 1 minThis is really cool. Once you’ve created directions in Google Maps (via a new click interface), you can drag various parts of your route. Check out the video below for a brief demonstration: More details can be found at the Google LatLong blog.
Turning books into maps
Reading Time: < 1 minGoogle Earth Blog has a write-up describing a technology that Google is working on to scan books, dig out the location information, then plot it in Google Earth. From there, you’ll be able to browse the locations from a book, or click a location and view the page where it was mentioned. Very cool!