Online Maps

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• More Canadian Cities in Google Streetview

  
  Internet News — Authority: 140
  Nine more Canadian cities added to Google Street View, Globe and Mail (Dec 2) "Victoria, Nanaimo, B.C., Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Sudbury, Ont., London, Ont., Sherbrooke, Que., and St. Johns, N.L., are among the more than 20 Canadian cities that have...
  3 days ago

• How Google Deals with Disputed Borders and Place Names

  
  The Map Room — Authority: 565
  Google explains “the principles we follow in designing our mapping products, particularly as they apply to disputed regions” — e.g., when two countries disagree about what a body of water is named or where a boundary is disputed. “That can mean providing multiple claim lines (e.g. the Syrian and Israeli lines ...
  4 days ago

• Bing Map Tools

  
  Internet News — Authority: 140
  Bings Cool New Search Tools: A Visual Tour Jeff Bertolucci, PC World (Dec 2) These arent really search tools - they are map tools. + map upgrades - especially Streetside for views of streets + Applications Gallery - "series of...
  6 days ago

• Bing Map Experience

  
  Internet News — Authority: 140
  Bing Maps Steals The Cool Crown From Google by Greg Sterling, Search Engine Land (Dec 2) Bing does street views now too - and in 3D - IF you install Microsoft Silverlight. "Bing Maps is introducing “Street Side” in 56...
  1 week ago

• Street View Updates: Canada, Singapore, South Africa

  
  The Map Room — Authority: 565
  This morning I notice, thanks to a tip by mapperz , that a number of additional Canadian cities have been added to Street View: Edmonton, Hamilton, London (Ontario), Saskatoon, St. John’s, Sudbury, Winnipeg, Victoria. The cities surrounding Toronto are also in Street View (e.g., Markham, Mississauga, Oshawa, ...
  1 week ago

• Google Maps Tips

  
  The Map Room — Authority: 565
  Google Maps’s Tips for Life page is a bit too preciously titled — it’s more a collection of tips on how to use Google Maps, based on four user profiles (local search, global browsing, navigation, business listings). More thorough than I think I’m making it sound. Via googlemaps . Google Maps Tips ...
  2 weeks ago

• NFT Internet Maps On Your Mobile

  
  Crenk — Authority: 559
  Everyone’s been a tourist at one point in their life. Being a foreign country, a different city, is something we experience at least once, and that experience can be good or bad depending on the tools we have to get us around. Maps are a thing of the past. If you’re still folding and unfolding your paper map as ...
  2 weeks ago

• Online Maps---Petaluma to Peshawar and Kashmir

  
  South Asia Investor Review — Authority: 415
  After painfully watching the heartbreaking scenes of carnage in Pakistani provincial capital of NWFP on TV screens, it came as a pleasant surprise to see the New York Times mention Peshawar in a different context; volunteer cartographers contributing to digital maps "from Petaluma to Peshawar". It particularly ...
  3 weeks ago

• Volunteer mapmakers: Changing our views

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 525
  Do you use Google Maps? Do you know where they come from? Have you ever had a GPS device problem? In summer 2007, I spoke at the Jewish Genealogical Society of Sacramento (California). The president drove me from the train to his house, cautioning me to watch his GPS device. As we neared his home, the voice ...
  3 weeks ago

• The New York Times on User Contributions to Online Maps

  
  The Map Room — Authority: 565
  The New York Times looks at user contributions to online maps , starting with Google, with its Map Maker program covering 140 countries and its recent opening of its U.S. maps. “People have been contributing information to digital maps for some time, building displays of crime statistics or apartment rentals. Now ...
  3 weeks ago

• Street View Taken to Court in Switzerland

  
  The Map Room — Authority: 565
  The Swiss federal data protection commissioner is taking Google to court. Hanspeter Thür argues that Google’s blurring of faces and licence plates in its Street View imagery of Switzerland is insufficient and that Google has not complied with his recommendations, swissinfo.ch reports : The data protection ...
  3 weeks ago

• Historic Map Works: Digital map database

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 525
  Historic Map Works was formed to create a historic digital map database of North America and the world, and it claims to draw on the largest physical collection of American property atlases. Adding to its own own atlas collections, the Maine company has also incorporated scans of antique map collections from the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Working with online maps

  
  Internet News — Authority: 140
  Hawaii Joins The Google Street View Union; Microsoft Updates Look Of Bing Maps, Adds Features, Greg Sterling, Search Engine Land (Nov 10) Heres a way to go to Hawaii - walk the streets through Google Street View. Details and some...
  4 weeks ago

• Online Maps Miscellany

  
  The Map Room — Authority: 565
  I should have waited: this Google LatLong post summarizes all the Street View updates: not only Hawaii and Mexico , but also Spain and the Netherlands. Meanwhile, Latitude has added a couple of features : history and alerts. Not to disrespect the Bing, which had some interface and feature upgrades announced ...
  4 weeks ago

• Also, Hawaii

  
  The Map Room — Authority: 565
  In addition to Mexico, Street View has also come to Hawaii . Also, Hawaii first appeared on The Map Room: A Weblog About Maps on November 9, 2009. Copyright © 2009 Jonathan Crowe. Distributed under a Creative Commons licence .
  4 weeks ago

• Google Maps Launches in Mexico

  
  The Map Room — Authority: 565
  A Mexican version of Google Maps has launched; here’s Google’s announcement from last Friday (in Spanish). As Google Maps Mania also notes , Street View imagery has been added for seven cities in Mexico; that was supposed to have launched today, but I’ve checked Mexico City and Guadalajara and it’s not ...
  4 weeks ago

• A Significant Step Down in Quality

  
  The Map Room — Authority: 565
  Peter Batty weighs in on the quality of Google’s new, homegrown map data: As anyone in the geo world knows, all maps have errors, and it’s hard to do a really rigorous analysis on Google’s current dataset versus others. But I think there is strong evidence that the new Google dataset in the U.S. is a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Too Soon?

  
  The Map Room — Authority: 565
  Steven Citron-Pousty wonders whether Google dropped Tele Atlas before their own data was ready . “Google’s routing data sucks right now and there are no two ways about it.” Via Peter . Previously: Google Stops Using Tele Atlas in the U.S. . Too Soon? first appeared on The Map Room: A Weblog About ...
  5 weeks ago

• Down But Not Out, MapQuest Makes A Return, But It Beat Google Maps?

  
  Profectio — Authority: 131
  According to their blog , MapQuest has made some improvements to their tool which include “new map style and imagery improvements,” but will it be enough to regain market share with consumers. There was a time when MapQuest was the standard application that consumers would use when trying to play out a trip, I ...
  5 weeks ago

• A MapQuest Update

  
  The Map Room — Authority: 565
  MapQuest has improved the look of its maps — and to my eyes, at least, it certainly is an improvement. Meanwhile, Adam DuVander is impressed with MapQuest’s developer tools: “It’s now a platform worth considering, right along with Google and Yahoo.” Don’t look so surprised . Okay, maybe you can. Via ...
  5 weeks ago

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