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You Can Now Explore the Large Hadron Collider on Street View

Google Street View is a great way to explore parts of the world you’ve never visited. And thanks to Google’s European team, it’s now one of the easiest ways to explore a facility you’re not exactly allowed to just stroll through whenever you want. Google’s panoramic cameras were given access to CERN’s Large Hadron Collider,…

Explore the Galápagos Islands on Google Street View

Google Maps has taken us into the Grand Canyon, to Japan’s abandoned Battleship Island, and under the sea, and now it allows us to venture to the Galápagos from the comfort of our desks. https://gizmodo.com/wow-so-google-street-view-is-now-available-for-the-gra-5980888 https://gizmodo.com/japans-abandoned-battleship-island-is-now-on-google-st-619013477 https://gizmodo.com/google-launches-underwater-street-view-blows-everyones-5946618 This post may take a while to load, but there is some fun Google Street View goodness below.…

GTA 5 Map Compared to the Google Maps of Major Cities

After the enormous map for Grand Theft Auto V leaked online, the Internet has had a ball geeking out on the render of Los Santos and Blaine Counties. The geography is based on the sprawling metropolis of Los Angeles, but to give you an idea for how big the city really is in real life…

You Can Now Explore the Galapagos Islands With Google Street View

The Galapagos is one of the most biodiverse places on the planet, and it was key in Charles Darwin’s findings in forming the the scientific argument of evolution. You may never get to travel to the volcanic archipelago in person, but now thanks to Google, you can explore it through 360-degree imagery on Street View.…

10 Tricks to Make Yourself a Google Maps Master

The Maps Wars are on in earnest—with Apple Maps now finding its feet after a shaky start, and Bing Maps forming an integral part of Windows Phone, Google Maps can’t afford to stand still. A recent overhaul brought bringing more customization options, extra features and a brand new look. Here are 10 useful tips and…

Unbelievable Google Street View Captures a Space Shuttle Flyover

When Google’s army of Street View vehicles takes to the streets, there’s no telling what those wandering eyes will see. Still it’s hard to believe that a Google Street View camera captured a space shuttle flying over the New Jersey Turnpike towards New York City. We’ve seen our share of spectacular flyover images, but nothing…

5 Fun Ways To Destroy Your House on Street View

Want to see what your home would look like if it were demolished by a tropical storm? Or if your city turned into a ruined post-apocalyptic outpost? You can do this and more virtual destruction using a few Google Maps tricks. Here are five good ones, courtesy of Keir Clarke from Google Maps Mania. 1)…

After its acquisition of Waze this past June, Google announced this morning that it is deploying real time incident reports from Waze users to Google Maps mobile and apps users. Waze users can now search with Google, too. And if you’re into mapmaking, the Waze Map Editor now includes Google Street View. [Google and Waze]

A Gang of Thai Villagers Tried to Arrest a Google Street View Driver

Google Street View drivers haven’t exactly had the best rep recently, what with that whole collecting-private-Wi-Fi-data debacle and their general propensity for photographing naked women, defecators, murders, and mid-coital couples, just to name a few. And now, one almost got arrested by a group Thai villagers. https://gizmodo.com/was-a-rogue-engineer-responsible-for-googles-wi-fi-sn-5559989 The northern Thai village where the incident took…

Google Maps Mobile Apps Will Now Be Polluted With Ads (Sad Face)

Google Maps app on your smartphone is one of those wonderful things that makes owning the gadget an absolute joy. Instant, essential knowledge. Today, Google announced that it would be robbing its iOS and Android apps of their purity by allowing advertisers to advertise against your searches. So as in the example in the device…

You Can Make Beautiful Abstract Art With The Google Maps API

Google Maps offers a lot of tools for developers (or anyone!) to work with, visualize and customize the existing service. And a lot of cool maps, infographics and tools come out of the APIs. But sometimes it’s nice to take something like the topographical data and move it in a totally different direction. Like maybe…

Citymaps: This Is Your Maps App Replacement

Google Maps is pretty great. So is Foursquare and Yelp and Instagram. Now imagine combining the best of all those and what you get is Citymaps. It’s a brand new type of map for iOS that lets you explore what’s around you and share it with friends. Trust me, this is actually pretty neat and…

New Google Earth Hack Lets You Nuke Any City in Devastating 3D

A perverse fascination with nuclear fallout and blast radii isn’t that weird. Don’t you want to know how hard you and everything you know is going to disappear from the face of the Earth in the unlikely case that some maniac drops twenty kilotons of atomic death on your front door? Now you can see…

Google Maps just annihilated an entire 141-square-mile island

The latest update of Google Maps appears to have wiped out the Scottish island of Jura. But while the internet giant is aware of the problem, it has yet to fix it. Despite the oversight, Jura island is very much a real place. It’s home to about 188 people and is famed for its whiskey…

How to Save Offline Maps in the New Google Maps for iOS

Saving offline maps in Google Maps 2.0 is a sneaky ‘easter egg’ type feature that’ll make Google Maps on iOS even better. You won’t need to rely on a data connection, you’ll get your maps faster and it’ll make things work better. So how do you save offline maps on the iOS version of Google…

Google Maps Now Works with the iPad and Has Better Navigation

All you iPad users can now banish Apple Maps into that folder you never open because Google Maps 2.0 has been released and adds support for the iPad and iPad Mini. That means BIG MAPS HELL YEAH. Google Maps 2.0 for iOS also adds better navigation with live traffic updates, incident reports and dynamic re-routing.…

Everyone Can Get the New Google Maps Right Now

First shown off at I/O, Google has just rolled out its updated Maps for the web to basically everyone. All you need to do now is sign up here and you’ll instantly have access to everything that’s new and grand. The cleaner redesign focuses in on the maps themselves giving users even more context depending…

New Google Maps for Android: Slick Looks, Better Navigation

A tweaked version of Google Maps for Android is now rolling out, which includes a bunch of new features first mentioned by the search giant back in May. The new app appeared in the Play store last night, and brings the app originally previewed at I/O in May to the masses. Echoing the aesthetic of…

Google Maps Street View Now Lets You Explore Thomas Jefferson’s Digs

Nobody wants to spend their vacation day studying history, but if you’re feeling particularly patriotic tomorrow, you can head on over to Google Maps where Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello residence is now available to explore using Google Street View. You can virtually wander around outside the property on its sprawling greens, or head indoors and explore…

Japan’s abandoned Battleship Island is now on Google Street View

Located off the coast of Nagasaki, the long-abandoned Hashima Island (also known as “Gunkanjima” or “Battleship Island”) was the inspiration for Raoul Silva’s lair in Skyfall. Now, thanks to Google Maps, you can visit the island on Street View. Mitsubishi used Hashima Island as a coal mining facility; the inhabitants of the large concrete apartment…