Maps Posts

Christine Buske

New Google Maps for Blackberry

Google just announced a new version of Google Maps for Blackberry users. Recently Windows Mobile and S60 already had a chance to use version 3.2, but ...

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Christine Buske

Google Street View Comes to Canada!

As a resident of Toronto, I’m very excited that Google Street View is now also available in Canada! Google has finally updated Google Maps to include ...

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Christine Buske

Personalize Google Maps while Traveling

While I am on the road right now, I’m heavily dependent on Google Maps to find my way around. Yesterday, I was trying to figure out ...

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Christine Buske

Street View is Taking me Home

I grew up in Holland, and one of my favorite cities in the world is still Amsterdam. It’s no surprise that I’m very excited about Google ...

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Christine Buske

How to Sync iCal with Google Cal

Previously, I mentioned Google has made it possible to connect Google Calendar with iCal. In addition, I’ve also explained before how you can sync Google Calendar ...

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Christine Buske

Track Runs, Walks, or Random Trips with ‘My Tracks’

Google Maps is constantly pushing limits. First, we started keeping track of where our friends are roaming with Latitude. Now Google has introduced the Google Tracks ...

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Christine Buske

Latitude Gives You ‘Big-Brother-like’ Powers

Really want to be in the loop on your friend’s whereabouts? Well, now you can. The Google Mobile Blog reported a new feature. Using Google Latitude ...

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Phil Glockner

Google Covers Election Day 2008

Google has some great election day resources available for you to use whether you are researching the presidential candidates, looking for your polling place, or watching ...

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Mr Video

How-to fix an incorrect address on Google Maps

This video shows you how you can easily update an incorrect address on Google Maps. Don’t think your address is correct, especially if you are a ...

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The Tutor

GoogleMaps is…

Missing a space between ‘Google’ and ‘Maps’. It is two words, not one. Sorry for the bland post but I was just sitting here checking stats and ...

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Mr Video

How-to update Google Map’s driving directions by dragging your route

I recently did this in front of a coworker who had no idea it could be done, so I’m sharing it with you -- a quick ...

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Phil Glockner

GeoEye-1: Google’s Satellite

What do you buy when you have around $250 million burning a hole in your pocket? Well, you could do a lot worse than Google, which ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google Maps: YouTube video layer

I found a new way of looking at Google Maps today, it’s the YouTube video layer. Imagine your usual Google Map, this time, imagine it showing videos ...

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Abhijeet Mukherjee

Easily edit and add stuff to Google Maps using QuikMaps

QuikMaps is a cool Google Maps tool which lets you draw lines, markers and scribble on Google Maps. It has a nice and simple interface and ...

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Peter Jalbert

New Google Maps feature: The GoogleMap Maker

The scene: You open up Google Maps to find directions before heading off to that holiday trip. Of course, who wouldn’t want to prepare ...

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The Tutor

An introduction to Google Maps Street View

If you don’t mind the weird looking guy in the orange jumpsuit, this is a good introduction to Google Maps’ controversial “Street View” feature. If you are ...

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Mark O'Neill

Asking Google to remove your home from Maps Street View

A Minneapolis suburb has become the first area in the US to ask Google to remove them from Google Maps Street View, after they complained that ...

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Phil Glockner

GTA 4 and Google Maps Mashup

Grand Theft Auto 4 is a big game. Within the game world lies an area as large as New York City. In fact, the in-game ...

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Mark O'Neill

Viewing TV show trivia on Google Maps

If you’re a big fan of TV shows then you will find these Google maps interesting. Choosing from shows such as Lost, American Idol, and Grey’s Anatomy ...

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Peter Jalbert

Android Preview: Maps

As promised, here’s our second installment of the Google Android applications. Last time I discussed the Android browser, which is probably one of the strongest of the ...

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Mark O'Neill

Google Earth and Sketchup – the perfect pair

By Mark O’Neill Sketchup may have brought out the designer side in everyone with models ranging from the very simple to the very intricate. But ...

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Peter Jalbert

Playing With The New Google Moon

Google and NASA have a healthy collaborative relationship that they have mentioned before. In their previous announcement, they mentioned that they will “work together on a ...

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Peter Jalbert

Personalizing Google Maps: My Maps

In my previous post I introduced the My Maps feature of Google Maps: a feature added by Google to bring maps mash-up to the masses. This effort ...

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Peter Jalbert

Personalizing Google Maps

When Google Maps launched in 2005, it awed a lot of people because of the drag and drop capability that was then unheard off in the ...

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Peter Jalbert

Planning your trips using Google Transit

Google transit is a trip-planning product of Google that’s still in its early stage. It started as a special version of Google maps, aggregating transportation information ...

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