Remainders - Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)

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It's Not a Good Day to Be a GPS Manufacturer

Google's free GPS feature on Android 2.0 is great news! Unless you're the fine folks at Garmin and TomTom, in which case, oh shit. [Engadget]

Apple Buys Their Very Own Maps Company (See Ya, Google Maps?)

The Apple/Google divorce continues to come into focus: Apple quietly bought Placebase, a mapping service company, back in July. Apple doesn't buy companies it's not going to use. Meaning, Apple's getting into making their own maps. Peace out, Google. More »

Google Maps Crowdsources Traffic by Measuring Your Miserable Commute

When used on phones with GPS (including the Pre and MyTouch 3G, though not the iPhone), Google Maps crowdsources huge batches of data on how fast you're travelling on a particular street, thus measuring traffic for fellow drivers. More »

The Month In Windows Mobile Apps: Fancy Browsing, Telephone Magic, and an App Store

You name it, we've got it: Sexy search tools! Google Voice! Upstart app stores! Maps, with stuff on them! Radio! Emulators, from the future! Fresh new browsers! It's all in a day's month's work for Windows Mobile. More »

Hungry Google Street View Driver Directs You To Local KFC

Google Street View sees the Almighty, fights crime, and even does self-portraits. It's a busy, relentless lifestyle. I guess what I'm getting at is... dude gets hungry once in a while, and you're coming along for the ride. More »

Location Finding With Google Maps Comes To Chrome and Firefox

If you are running Chrome 2.0+ or FireFox 3.5+ you will notice a dot in the upper left corner of Google Maps that should, theoretically, be able to locate your position using the W3C Geolocation API. More »

Google Offers Updated Maps Features Through Android Market

Google updated their integral Maps Android app with some pretty sweet new features, including voice search, public transit and walking directions, and a beefed-up Latitude. It's great to see them pushing updates as they're ready, without waiting for carriers. [Google]

Google Street View Gets Smarter Navigation, 3D Effects

Street View has given us a near-endless supply of shenanigans, but it's always been awkward to actually use. Now, Google has implemented semi-3D "Smart Navigation," which makes your virtual walking and/or stalking a lot easier, and way, way cooler. More »

Google Streetview Guy Takes A Walk With Mom On Mother's Day

Awwwwwwww. Google is just so gosh darn cute sometimes. Like today. They have the little yellow Google Streetview guy walking around with his mom. Happy Mother's Day! More »

Manhattan Mapped Without a Horizon

It's rare that we get excited over maps, but this idea by graphic designers Jack Schulze and Matt Webb would be great for GPSs, combining 3D, first person and overhead views into one übermap. More »

UK Cameraman Turns The Tables On Google Street View Car During Argument

It looks like Google is continuing to make friends in the UK—only this time it's the driver of the Street View car that was outraged. More »

Buckinghamshire, UK Says 'GTFO' to Google Street View Via Mob

Due to a string of recent burglaries, residents of Buckinghamshire had been on the lookout for any suspicious vehicles nearby—so naturally, the Google Street View car was welcomed to the neighborhood with an old-fashioned mob. More »

What It's Like to Drive the Google Street View Van

This is what it's like driving the Google Street View van across the Golden Gate Bridge. Seems a bit choppy: More »

Teenager's 60-Foot Roof Wang Backfires, Rich Parents Dole Out "Punishment"

Inspired by all of the classy art on Google Maps, 18-year old Rory McInnes decided to create a 60-foot phallic masterpiece on the roof of his parents' stately English manor. More »

Nothing to See Here, Please Drive Thru

It must be a sad thing when Google thinks your city is not even worth taking the covers off the cameras mounted in a Street View car. More »

Peek Emailer Spotted Running a Very Fuzzy Maps App

Spotted in the wild, this Peek appears to be running a maps app. Whether it's a creative hack or a sign of things to come, the Peek might soon do more than just one thing. More »

Turn-By-Turn Voice Navigation Comes to Jailbroken iPhones

Six months after the App Store was launched, the iPhone app gray market lives on: turn-by-turn navigation has come to jailbroken iPhones in the form of xGPS. UPDATED More »

Create Some Unlikely Things You'd See in Google Street View

We're always finding strange things in Google Street View. But there are some things that, chances are, we'll never, ever see using the service. Let's change that. More »

Google Earth Head Responds to Allegations of Aiding Terrorists

Sure, Google Earth's satellite view of the world is expected to keep secretive governments nervous, but when both Hamas militants in Gaza and Pakistan-based terrorists have reportedly endorsed Google Earth, director John Hanke must respond. More »

Google Street View Completes Tour of Real America With Dude Carrying Rifle

Google's really trying to get in touch with their inner red state lately, aren't they? [Google Maps via The Smoking Gun via Valleywag]

Google Maps Car Hits a Deer, Records Entire Ordeal on Google Maps

Here's a sad one: the Google Maps car took out a baby deer, and it recorded the entire process for all Google Maps users to see. For shame, Google Maps car! More »

Google Street View Discovers Rift in Spacetime Contiuum

Pre-medieval warriors! Battling to the death! In Pittsburgh! (Appropriately, at Samsonia Way.) Obviously a serious tear in the spacetime contiuum, since it even replaced their iron weapons with modern foam-rubber. [Google Maps - Thanks tipster!]

Cheney Leaves VP Residence, Takes Pixelated Google Map with Him

Google Maps' satellite imagery has shown us clear shots of the White House, the Capitol and even the Pentagon. But one thing it never displayed properly was Dick Cheney's house. Until now. More »

Google Street View Captures Image of Two-Story Giant

A race of giants roams the streets of LA. Google Street View captured an image of one as it boldly exposed itself in broad daylight, examining the street view truck like a Hot Wheels car. More »

Google Maps Gets a Public Transit Layer

Google Maps added a transit layer to its terrain and sat and road views today for viewing bus, train and ferry lines, etc. There's no NY support, but these 50 cities are covered: More »

McRib Locator Helps You Help Me Get a McRib

McRibs are back. They were back last year, but they're back again. Problem is, I have no idea where to get one in the Bay Area. Help me. More »

Google Street View Captures Prototype Porsches

First Google Street View captures a person peeing on the street, and now they drive right by a bunch of Porsche prototypes in Colorado. More »

iPod Touch Denied Street View, Other Google Maps Upgrades in Firmware 2.2

Our testing has confirmed that iPod Touch users do not get updates to their Google Maps app with firmware 2.2, which, at least on the iPhone, includes the addition of Street View as well as public transit and walking directions. The updated browser interface, podcast downloading and assorted other tweaks are all there, as was the requisite sacrificing of any jailbreak apps. Of course there may be a perfectly reasonable explanation for this, but until that's given, Apple, it's all pitchforks and torches. Or iPods and forums posts, I guess. [MobileCrunch]