Maps Posts

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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Peter Jalbert

Google Maps Pedometer

Here’s a little something for the health buffs out there. While I usually just measure the distance I walk by how tired I’ve already become (near: ...

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The Tutor

New ‘My Maps’ feature at Google Maps

Hmm… oddly this also seems to be Google playing a little catch up with Microsoft - Look at Google Maps for a new tab on the left ...

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The Tutor

Creepy Closeups on Google Maps

I was stumbling around today and came across this neat trick (or creepy as hell, how ever you’d like to describe it) – Super Closeups on Google Maps! Full ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google Maps – In Text!

More than a decade ago, when the world wide web was young, and still the plaything (or research tool, actually) of computer scientists and geeks in ...

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Peter Jalbert

Overlay Vector Data Directly on Google Maps

It’s amazing what a few months of development can bring about in the world of web applications. When I thought that you could only directly overlay ...

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The Tutor

Paying too much for rent?

Find out with Rentometer another Google Maps mashup tool. AKPC_IDS += "337,";

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Peter Jalbert

Playing and Learning With Google Maps

Remember school? Do you recall which your least-favorite subjects were? I do. And these include history and geography. For some reason, the concepts, ideas and other ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google This Week

We’ve done it before, now we’re doing it again. Sometimes there are several things happening at the same time in the world of Google that a ...

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Peter Jalbert

A Virtual Tour of Europe

Google just announced that its Google Maps, ever popular in the Americas for its successful integration of vector map data with satellite imagery–and the multitude of ...

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Peter Jalbert

Mars Attacks!

Looks like Google isn’t satisfied with having the entire world on the Internet as satellite imagery. They want other worlds as well! Google would not stop at ...

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Peter Jalbert

Explore our Planet from your Home using Google Earth!

I was over at a friend’s house the other day and on his computer he showed me his own house as viewed by a satellite in ...

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The Tutor

Google Maps Hack finds Cheap Gas!

Ahding.com has created a timely hack for everyone weary of paying high gas prices. His hack is called Cheap Gas and utilizes Google Maps and ...

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The Tutor

View Google Maps on TiVo!

Google Maps is one of the coolest of Google applications , and anyone using TiVo knows that it is one of the most essential products ...

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The Tutor

Using the New Google Local for Mobile Phones

Last week, Google announced that it had ported Google Local—the easiest way to find local business information on the net—to your mobile phone or device. ...

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The Tutor

Michael Jackson Neverland Ranch Satelitte View through Google Maps

I just can’t get enough of Google Maps satellite view! Since Michael Jackson is in the news now, I thought it would be interesting to see ...

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The Tutor

Very Cool! Google’s Bird’s Eye View

Have you ever wished you could see what someplace looked like before you got there? A house? A hotel? A freeway exit? Google thought you might ...

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