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apple

iPhone GPS: We're Not In Kansas Anymore...Wait, How The &$^@ Are We Still in Kansas?

Our ring-wielding Gizmodo brethren over in New Zealand took the iPhone's GPS out for a spin. And after the system properly located their position, the map zoomed in and put them somewhere unrecognizable. Upon zooming our, their new location was revealed: Kansas. And how they got there, no one knows.

The problem may have been a by-product of indoor testing, or it may have just been a random bug. Or, somewhat implausibly, the iPhone 3G's GPS is completely broken and entirely unfixable. Or maybe more likely Kansas is some default no man's land for GPS devices on first boot and this is a video taken before the iPhone here got its bearings. Time will tell. [Gizmodo AU]

1:15 PM on Thu Jul 10 2008
By Mark Wilson
7,882 views, 65 comments

google maps

BlackBerry Pearl Gets Google Maps with Voice Search

Google has just released a new version of their maps application that supports voice recognition search on the BlackBerry Pearl. That means Pearl users can load Google Maps, hold a side button, say "pizza, i said PIZZA...PEE ZZ UH" and have the application magically find tacos in your immediate vicinity. This upgrade doesn't look to be automatic, so hit the link to have Google text message your phone for the "experimental" update. [Google Maps via Gear Diary]

10:02 AM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By Mark Wilson
4,244 views, 25 comments

Latest by krkeegan: @seizure: I actually don't think the Voice Recognition Software is owned by RIM. I noticed the same friendly voice on my girlfriend's new RAZR2. more »

google street view

Google Street View Car Drives Into Microsoft Campus, Gets Laughed At By Windows Live Maps

Reader Don sends in this fantastic tip about a Google Street View car actually driving around and taking pictures inside a Microsoft campus. The GooCar—shown here photographed by Microsoftees—wasn't just covering regular roads, they were going in-between buildings and getting as many angles as they could of the campus. That's ballsy. What's even funnier, says Don, is that the Google guys were driving around the team that does Windows Live Maps, like nothing was wrong, when other Microsoft guys were laughing and yelling at them. Much nerd hilarity ensued. [Thanks Don!]

6:01 PM on Thu Jun 26 2008
By Jason Chen
27,824 views, 41 comments

Latest by genpetahhhh: @mowglicub: makes me think of just the other day me using google maps to meet up with my brother (who works at Microsoft) and it giving me bad directions...I finally had to give in and use his live maps for more »

palm centro

Palm Selling Centro Unlocked for $299, Gets Google Maps with My Location

Already available on the three biggest US carriers, the only way to make the Centro a bigger hit is to sell it unlocked—and that's what Palm is doing, for $299. It's only in white, though. You can pick it up online at Palm's site. Also, starting tomorrow, they'll be offering Google Maps with My Location for Centros, which locates you with GPS or triangulation. Details: More »

4:04 PM on Mon Jun 23 2008
By matt buchanan
4,591 views, 23 comments

google

Caption Contest: The Google Maps Prius Gets a Speeding Ticket

My attempt: "This had better not end up on the internet somehow."

Surely, you can do better. [Treehugger]

10:17 AM on Tue Jun 17 2008
By Adam Frucci
25,685 views, 210 comments

driving excitement

Google Maps Driving Simulator Lets You 'Drive' Anywhere

This top-down Google Maps-based driving simulator is one step closer to our ultimate dream: simulated driving on any street, anywhere, based on data available from Google Maps/Google Earth. Geoquake's 2D Flash version may be really simple—you only have a choice of four vehicles and there's no actual collision detection—but it's got the right idea. When someone can take in street data and feed it into a 3D driving engine so we can simulate a trip to the Grand Canyon without leaving our desks, that's when we'll know the future has arrived. [Geoquake]

5:45 PM on Tue Jun 10 2008
By Jason Chen
15,051 views, 30 comments

Latest by Zanderkinn: eh, this was in simcity 4. Except that I got to build my own tracks, and drive some ridiculous vehicles more »

cellphones

Google Maps For Mobile 2.2 Saves Gas With Bus and Train Directions

The new version of Google Maps for Mobile (2.2) is offering public transportation directions "in all of the same places as the web version of Google Maps, including Chicago, the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Vancouver, and over 40 other cities in North America." Users will also be able to easily browse through all scheduled trips and get information on the last transit trips for the day. Throw that in with the "My Location" feature, and you have yourself a useful tool in the fight against high gas prices. More »

8:20 PM on Thu Jun 5 2008
By Sean Fallon
6,983 views, 22 comments

Latest by n/a: I gotta love Google Maps on my BB Curve. Saved me a few times in Hawaii last week! I wonder if they will have tram and monorail info for my beloved home Vegas? walk 2 blocks from Excalibur, walk .3 more »

google voyeur

Camera Shy Minnesota Town Bans Google Maps Street View

The townsfolk of North Oaks, Minnesota, want to be able to pick their nose, flash cars, conduct drug deals and fall down on the sidewalk without the whole world knowing about it, so they've forbidden Google Maps Streetview cars from crossing city limits. At least those are the only reasons I can think of as to why this quiet community of 4,500 would want to go all Wuher at Chulum's Cantina and ban Google's voyeuristic fleet of droid-like camera cars.
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7:00 PM on Sun Jun 1 2008
By Jack Loftus
13,913 views, 52 comments

Latest by n/a: @BurnZ_: icegnome's idea is much funnier... more »

nokia

Nokia Maps 2.0 Now Available

The Nokia Maps 2.0 Beta we told you about back in February has matured into an official release, and is available now. The service is subscription-based for Nokia devices running the Symbian S60 operating system. It features more than 200 downloadable maps and points of interest for countries worldwide. The software is available for download at the Nokia link provided. Right. Now. [Nokia]

1:00 PM on Sun May 25 2008
By Jack Loftus
4,032 views, 15 comments

google

How Google Really Places Map Markers

Don't let them deceive you with their fancy topographic buzzwords, and smartypants search algorithms. They just use these, and have people who move them really really fast as you click. Seriously. Sergey—the Ukrainian plumber who is fixing the pipes at home—told me the other day. [Dark Roasted Blend]

7:20 AM on Fri May 23 2008
By Jesus Diaz
104,930 views, 30 comments

google

Google Maps Adds Wikipedia Articles, Geotagged Photos, Real Estate Listings

Google Maps has just added even more information for your geographical perusal, including the option to place links to Wikipedia articles and geotagged photos from Panoramio on top of your maps. It's a cool way to see shots of areas taken with a more artful eye than the Street View vans as well as check out info written by strangers and verified by nobody of authority. It's also added real estate listings, which you can turn on under the "search options" link. The future is now! [Google Maps via Lifehacker]

6:30 PM on Wed May 14 2008
By Adam Frucci
4,431 views, 13 comments

Latest by GrimaceXL: i noticed this last week and thought it was a feature that wasn't new, but hadn't stumbled upon, but now seeing this article, it is new. They must have been tracking all my queries on for sale houses in my more »

apple

iPhone World Map Charts Jobs' Giant Game Of Risk

It's tough to keep track of the iPhone's slow global release, so one Apple fan assembled all the data into one easy to read map. If the country is red, then they either have the iPhone or will be getting it this summer. (Note: Switzerland, Spain and Poland are still just rumored, not official).

It's like one of those pandemic maps from the movies. You see the military general plotting two little red dots. Then four. Then eight. And then, all of the sudden, the dots have covered the general's body, spewing puss across the room in all directions. [Apple 2.0]

2:30 PM on Fri May 9 2008
By Mark Wilson
14,301 views, 39 comments

verizon

VZ Navigator Update with Traffic Avoidance and 3D View Now Available

The latest and greatest version of VZ Navigator (4.0), which tosses in traffic avoidance for 75 cities, along with 3D view plus some other stuff is live right now. $10 a month or $3 to check it out for a day. [Verizon]

11:15 AM on Thu May 8 2008
By matt buchanan
2,517 views, 12 comments

google

Google Street View Becomes Google Bag View in Alaska

One of the occupational hazards of Google Street View is, I guess, having the camera obscured by something. It could be a pterodactyl, perhaps, flying low for a closer view, it could be a giant Monty Python-style animated brogue homing in on the car as if it were a roach ripe for the squishing. Or it could be a plastic bag. One minute it's dancing around, American Beauty-style, the next it's spread-eagled over the camera rather like an over-amorous spinster at a barn dance. This is what Minnie Street in Fairbanks, Alaska, looks like, according to Google Street View. [Google Maps via Google Sightseeing]

8:40 AM on Thu May 8 2008
By AddyDugdale
7,593 views, 25 comments

Latest by n/a: thats in several random places.. but believe me just the fact of having gg street view here in the banks was already a reason for celebration.. more »

google

Google Maps Goes Gangsta - GTA IV Maps Ahoy

Even Google Maps is getting in on GTA IV fever, making an online version of the map that came with the game. In a way, it's much better than the paper map because you can click on and off different points of interests (missions, restaurants, safe houses, gun shops) and know where you're going. What with Google mapping out the ocean, an imaginary world isn't that much of a stretch. Are we the only ones here that wishes they were playing GTA IV instead of working? [Google Maps IGN via Kotaku]

12:15 PM on Thu May 1 2008
By Jason Chen
32,624 views, 23 comments

Latest by Sockpuppet: h@Sockpuppet: huh irony. My talentless typing fingers typed talentless wrong. more »

google

Google Goes Back to 1500, Plans to Map the Oceans

As a natural progression from Google Earth and Google Sky, the Mountain View monolith now plans to create 3D maps of the Earth's oceans and seas and make it available via Google Ocean. The software will allow users to navigate the aquatic bottom and see the topography that exists down there. Google also plans to include interactive data about various subjects such as weather patterns, coral reefs, shipwrecks and currents. The goal for Google Ocean is to use as much high resolution photography of the underwater terrain as possible, offering more than just a map. But researchers say such a process could take upwards of 100 years. And Google, if you're going to include an Easter egg similar to Google Earth's flight sim, could we get a guided tour with a virtual Team Zissou? [CNet News]

9:00 PM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By Adrian Covert
8,443 views, 26 comments

Latest by n/a: Instead of Street View... Sub View! Maybe now we'll be able to avoid some of those troublesome data cables and fishing boats... more »

traffic

Microsoft's Live Maps Integrates Complex Clearflow Traffic Modeling Data To Tell You To Avoid Busy Streets

Microsoft's Live Maps is adding Clearflow, a system in 72 cities that takes four years of real-world traffic data and uses it to interpolate what traffic is going to be like "today". The project started with traffic algorithms from GPS units in Microsoft employees' cars, and now has "over 125,000" miles worth of info. This traffic data should be free and available on Live.com for you to plan out your next trip to Albertsons. It's not quite as good as Dash, but it beats going in blind. [NYT via Slashdot via JKOntheRun via Lifehacker]

3:00 PM on Thu Apr 10 2008
By Jason Chen
7,120 views, 22 comments

Latest by ideaman2020: @Admiral Ackbar: If we're unlucky MS will buy Dash. more »

question of the day

Do You Use Google Maps Mobile to Check Traffic Alongside Your GPS?

That blurry GPS shot above is of the Dash Express with its IP-enabled mesh network of traffic monitoring. But most of you don't have such tech in your GPS, you've got something else without live traffic data. For those of you who have GPS devices without live traffic, do you use a phone with Google Maps Traffic to check live road conditions as you navigate with your car's GPS? More »

7:16 PM on Mon Apr 7 2008
By Brian Lam
7,155 views, 40 comments

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