Posts Tagged "google maps"

Google: The new cure for swine flu?

Earlier this week, Google Mexico and the Mexican government signed an agreenment to promote archaeological and historical sites in a bid to revive tourism following the swine flu epidemic, according to the Press Association.
Considering Google’s many, many… many talents, will the revival of tourism in Mexico be feasable? yeah.
The plan is for Mexico’s National Institute [...]

Google’s solution to Where’s Waldo?: Google Latitude

Mom’s been calling you non-stop all day long- wouldn’t you love throwing your phone out the window? Your friends don’t stop sms-ing you to ask you about your whereabouts come Saturday?
Google has rolled out a possible solution to these particular problems. Google’s mapping application has just undergone an upgrade that lets people track down friends, [...]

Web Tool Ushahidi comes in handy in times of war

Al Jazeera and the DR Congo currently use it to visualize incidences of violence in their respective countries.
Ushahidi, which means witness in Swahili, is a free and open source platform created to trace and report issues of crime, crisis and violence to the general public. It was developed specifically during the post-election breakout in Kenya [...]

Google’s My Location gets even more precise

After Google’s recent launch of the Mobile Search with My Location, you’ll never be late to your job interview or dinner with your hot date at that new sushi place.
Thanks to the Geolocator API web application your phone will be able to:
* Obtain the user’s current position, using the getCurrentPosition method
* Watch the user’s position [...]

Google Health, Google Walking Directions; privacy issues in the air?

As we know, a couple weeks back, Google released ‘walking directions’ as part of their Google Maps feature options.
If you’re keen to taking random strolls down some unknown street, perhaps some new ‘pedestrian friendly’ town you happen to be visiting for the weekend, or want to enjoy the beautifully HOT weather that has come to [...]

Locals contribute to Google Map Maker

Don’t allow your city, state or island to just be a blob on the map! Its a good thing Google Map Maker added a new feature recently which lets you contribute or edit map information freely, however, its only currently available in certain cities.
The Google Team has realized, maybe due to continuous claims, that some [...]

Google Earth, Google Maps, Google Sky…Google Ocean- on its way

Google does not cease to amaze us. It hasn’t been announced yet but rumors say Google is building up a platform that will map the Earth’s boundless ocean floors.
According to a report from News.com, the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif. hosted a group of selected research experts from various institutions to discuss the elaboration [...]

Google introduces Video Sitemaps, useful for SEO

When will Yahoo! give in and introduce equal sitemap format?

 
Google introduced the use of sitemaps [...]

New useful feature for your business: Embed Google Maps

Google Maps hasintroduced the possibility to embed the Map function on your website. Needless to say (we hope)that this can be a very useful feature for your website if you own a (small) company with a physical selling point.

Up to now it was possible but rather hard to put Google Maps on your pages. With [...]

Street View cars: Google tangles with privacy in quest for user relevance, again

Google is expanding its image of the world: last week Gizmodo reported that Google now has its own espionage car fleet. For us at 77, a better developed image of the real world can lead to more and better marketing possibilities, provided that it is being [...]